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  1. Geographical isolation has generated a distinct difference between Atlantic salmon of European and North American Atlantic origin. The European Atlantic salmon generally has 29 pairs of chromosomes and 74 chro...

    Authors: Silje Brenna-Hansen, Jieying Li, Matthew P Kent, Elizabeth G Boulding, Sonja Dominik, William S Davidson and Sigbjørn Lien
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:432
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  2. Cervical carcinoma develops as a result of multiple genetic alterations. Different studies investigated genomic alterations in cervical cancer mainly by means of metaphase comparative genomic hybridization (mC...

    Authors: Judith N Kloth, Jan Oosting, Tom van Wezel, Karoly Szuhai, Jeroen Knijnenburg, Arko Gorter, Gemma G Kenter, Gert Jan Fleuren and Ekaterina S Jordanova
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:53
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  3. The cytogenomic study of repetitive regions is fundamental for the understanding of morphofunctional mechanisms and genome evolution. Passiflora edulis a species of relevant agronomic value, this work had its gen...

    Authors: Vanessa Carvalho Cayres Pamponét, Margarete Magalhães Souza, Gonçalo Santos Silva, Fabienne Micheli, Cláusio Antônio Ferreira de Melo, Sarah Gomes de Oliveira, Eduardo Almeida Costa and Ronan Xavier Corrêa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:262
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2019 20:303

  4. The human X chromosome has a biased gene content. One group of genes that is over-represented on the human X are those expressed in the brain, explaining the large number of sex-linked mental retardation (MRX)...

    Authors: Margaret L Delbridge, Daniel A McMillan, Ruth J Doherty, Janine E Deakin and Jennifer A Marshall Graves
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:65
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  5. Expansion of multi-C2H2 domain zinc finger (ZNF) genes, including the Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) subfamily, paralleled the evolution of tetrapodes, particularly in mammalian lineages. Advances in their cata...

    Authors: Peter Lorenz, Sabine Dietmann, Thomas Wilhelm, Dirk Koczan, Sandra Autran, Sophie Gad, Gaiping Wen, Guohui Ding, Yixue Li, Marie-Françoise Rousseau-Merck and Hans-Juergen Thiesen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:206
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  6. The tall wheatgrass species Thinopyrum elongatum carries a strong fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance locus located on the long arm of chromosome 7 (7EL) as well as resistance to leaf and stem rusts, all diseas...

    Authors: David Konkin, Ya-Chih Hsueh, Morgan Kirzinger, Marie Kubaláková, Aparna Haldar, Margaret Balcerzak, Fangpu Han, George Fedak, Jaroslav Doležel, Andrew Sharpe and Thérèse Ouellet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:228
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  7. The apomictic reproductive mode of Brachiaria (syn. Urochloa) forage species allows breeders to faithfully propagate heterozygous genotypes through seed over multiple generations. In Brachiaria, reproductive mode...

    Authors: Margaret Worthington, Masumi Ebina, Naoki Yamanaka, Christopher Heffelfinger, Constanza Quintero, Yeny Patricia Zapata, Juan Guillermo Perez, Michael Selvaraj, Manabu Ishitani, Jorge Duitama, Juan Fernando de la Hoz, Idupulapati Rao, Stephen Dellaporta, Joe Tohme and Jacobo Arango
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:41
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  8. The availability of a high-density SNP genotyping chip and a reference genome sequence of the pig (Sus scrofa) enabled the construction of a high-density linkage map. A high-density linkage map is an essential to...

    Authors: Flavie Tortereau, Bertrand Servin, Laurent Frantz, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Denis Milan, Gary Rohrer, Ralph Wiedmann, Jonathan Beever, Alan L Archibald, Lawrence B Schook and Martien AM Groenen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:586
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  10. The Blau syndrome (MIM 186580), an autosomal dominant granulomatous disease, was previously mapped to chromosome 16p12-q21. However, inconsistent physical maps of the region and consequently an unknown order o...

    Authors: Xiaoju Wang, Helena Kuivaniemi, Gina Bonavita, Charlene J Williams and Gerard Tromp
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2002 3:24
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  11. Radiation hybrid (RH) maps are considered to be a tool of choice for fine mapping closely linked loci, considering that the resolution of linkage maps is determined by the number of informative meiosis and rec...

    Authors: Elisa Marques, Simon de Givry, Paul Stothard, Brenda Murdoch, Zhiquan Wang, James Womack and Stephen S Moore
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:254
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  12. Detection of copy number variations (CNVs) from high-throughput next-generation whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data has become a widely used research method during the recent years. However, only a little is kn...

    Authors: Johannes Smolander, Sofia Khan, Kalaimathy Singaravelu, Leni Kauko, Riikka J. Lund, Asta Laiho and Laura L. Elo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:357
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  13. Comparative genomic studies suggest that the modern day assemblage of ray-finned fishes have descended from an ancestral grouping of fishes that possessed 12–13 linkage groups. All jawed vertebrates are postul...

    Authors: Roy G Danzmann, Evelyn A Davidson, Moira M Ferguson, Karim Gharbi, Ben F Koop, Bjorn Hoyheim, Sigbjorn Lien, Krzysztof P Lubieniecki, Hooman K Moghadam, Jay Park, Ruth B Phillips and William S Davidson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:557
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  14. The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum causes septoria nodorum blotch (SNB) of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and is a model species for necrotrophic plant pathogens. The genome assembly of reference isolate Sn15 was fir...

    Authors: Stefania Bertazzoni, Darcy A. B. Jones, Huyen T. Phan, Kar-Chun Tan and James K. Hane
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:382
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  15. Squamates (lizards and snakes) are a speciose lineage of reptiles displaying considerable karyotypic diversity, particularly among lizards. Understanding the evolution of this diversity requires comparison of ...

    Authors: Janine E. Deakin, Melanie J. Edwards, Hardip Patel, Denis O’Meally, Jinmin Lian, Rachael Stenhouse, Sam Ryan, Alexandra M. Livernois, Bhumika Azad, Clare E. Holleley, Qiye Li and Arthur Georges
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:447
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  16. Differentiation and copy number of repetitive sequences affect directly chromosome structure which contributes to reproductive isolation and speciation. Comparative cytogenetic mapping has been verified an eff...

    Authors: Yunxia Zhang, Chunyan Cheng, Ji Li, Shuqiong Yang, Yunzhu Wang, Ziang Li, Jinfeng Chen and Qunfeng Lou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:730
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  17. Democratising the growing body of whole genome sequencing data available for Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) has been impeded by the lack of a genome reference and the large computational requirements for analysi...

    Authors: Nathan S. Watson-Haigh, Radosław Suchecki, Elena Kalashyan, Melissa Garcia and Ute Baumann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:941
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  18. Meta-analysis of QTLs combines the results of several QTL detection studies and provides narrow confidence intervals for meta-QTLs, permitting easier positional candidate gene identification. It is usually app...

    Authors: Farkhanda S Khowaja, Gareth J Norton, Brigitte Courtois and Adam H Price
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:276
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  19. Alpha satellite is the major repeated DNA element of primate centromeres. Evolution of these tandemly repeated sequences has led to the existence of numerous families of monomers exhibiting specific organizati...

    Authors: Lauriane Cacheux, Loïc Ponger, Michèle Gerbault-Seureau, Florence Anne Richard and Christophe Escudé
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:916
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  20. Extensive mapping efforts are currently underway for the establishment of comparative genomics between the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana and various Brassica species. Most of these studies have deployed RFLP ...

    Authors: Priya Panjabi, Arun Jagannath, Naveen C Bisht, K Lakshmi Padmaja, Sarita Sharma, Vibha Gupta, Akshay K Pradhan and Deepak Pental
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:113
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  22. Sphaerophoria rueppellii, a European species of hoverfly, is a highly effective beneficial predator of hemipteran crop pests including aphids, thrips and coleopteran/lepidopteran larvae in integrated pest managem...

    Authors: Emma Bailey, Linda Field, Christopher Rawlings, Rob King, Fady Mohareb, Keywan-Hassani Pak, David Hughes, Martin Williamson, Eric Ganko, Benjamin Buer and Ralf Nauen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:198
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  23. Lateral gene transfer (LGT) from bacterial Wolbachia endosymbionts has been detected in ~20% of arthropod and nematode genome sequencing projects. Many of these transfers are large and contain a substantial part ...

    Authors: Lisa Klasson, Nikhil Kumar, Robin Bromley, Karsten Sieber, Melissa Flowers, Sandra H Ott, Luke J Tallon, Siv G E Andersson and Julie C Dunning Hotopp
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:1097
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  24. A number of different quantitative trait loci (QTL) for various phenotypic traits, including milk production, functional, and conformation traits in dairy cattle as well as growth and body composition traits i...

    Authors: Rosemarie Weikard, Tom Goldammer, Pascal Laurent, James E Womack and Christa Kuehn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:53
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  26. Over the past decades, extensive comparative mapping research has been performed in the plant family Solanaceae. The recent identification of a large set of single-copy conserved orthologous (COSII) markers ha...

    Authors: Feinan Wu and Steven D Tanksley
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:182
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  27. Aspergillus niger is a ubiquitous filamentous fungus widely employed as a cell factory thanks to its abilities to produce a wide range of organic acids and enzymes. Its genome was one of the first Aspergillus gen...

    Authors: Valeria Ellena, Sjoerd J. Seekles, Gabriel A. Vignolle, Arthur F. J. Ram and Matthias G. Steiger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:679
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  28. A genome-wide assessment of nucleotide diversity in a polyploid species must minimize the inclusion of homoeologous sequences into diversity estimates and reliably allocate individual haplotypes into their res...

    Authors: Eduard D Akhunov, Alina R Akhunova, Olin D Anderson, James A Anderson, Nancy Blake, Michael T Clegg, Devin Coleman-Derr, Emily J Conley, Curt C Crossman, Karin R Deal, Jorge Dubcovsky, Bikram S Gill, Yong Q Gu, Jakub Hadam, Hwayoung Heo, Naxin Huo…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:702
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  29. Tandemly Repeated DNA represents a large portion of the human genome, and accounts for a significant amount of copy number variation. Here we present a genome wide analysis of the largest tandem repeats found ...

    Authors: Peter E Warburton, Dan Hasson, Flavia Guillem, Chloe Lescale, Xiaoping Jin and Gyorgy Abrusan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:533
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  30. It has been suggested that chromosomal rearrangements harbor the molecular footprint of the biological phenomena which they induce, in the form, for instance, of changes in the sequence divergence rates of lin...

    Authors: Tomàs Marques-Bonet, Ze Cheng, Xinwei She, Evan E Eichler and Arcadi Navarro
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:384
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  31. Tandem repeats are ubiquitous and abundant in higher eukaryotic genomes and constitute, along with transposable elements, much of DNA underlying centromeres and other heterochromatic domains. In maize, centrom...

    Authors: Anupma Sharma, Thomas K Wolfgruber and Gernot G Presting
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:142
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  32. The domestic goat (Capra hircus), an important livestock species, belongs to a clade of Ruminantia, Bovidae, together with cattle, buffalo and sheep. The history of genome evolution and chromosomal rearrangements...

    Authors: Xiaoyong Du, Bertrand Servin, James E Womack, Jianhua Cao, Mei Yu, Yang Dong, Wen Wang and Shuhong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:625
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  33. Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. (2n = 2 × = 14) and melon, C. melo L. (2n = 2 × = 24) are two important vegetable species in the genus Cucumis (family Cucurbitaceae). Both species have an Asian origin that diverged ...

    Authors: Dawei Li, Hugo E Cuevas, Luming Yang, Yuhong Li, Jordi Garcia-Mas, Juan Zalapa, Jack E Staub, Feishi Luan, Umesh Reddy, Xiaoming He, Zhenhui Gong and Yiqun Weng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:396
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  34. Segmental duplications (SDs) are not evenly distributed along chromosomes. The reasons for this biased susceptibility to SD insertion are poorly understood. Accumulation of SDs is associated with increased gen...

    Authors: Grit Ebert, Anne Steininger, Robert Weißmann, Vivien Boldt, Allan Lind-Thomsen, Jana Grune, Stefan Badelt, Melanie Heßler, Matthias Peiser, Manuel Hitzler, Lars R Jensen, Ines Müller, Hao Hu, Peter F Arndt, Andreas W Kuss, Katrin Tebel…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:537
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  35. The homologous recombination (HR) pathway is largely inactive in early embryos prior to the first cell division, making it difficult to achieve targeted gene knock-ins. The homology-mediated end joining (HMEJ)...

    Authors: Joseph R. Owen, Sadie L. Hennig, Bret R. McNabb, Tamer A. Mansour, Justin M. Smith, Jason C. Lin, Amy E. Young, Josephine F. Trott, James D. Murray, Mary E. Delany, Pablo J. Ross and Alison L. Van Eenennaam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:118
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  36. Despite the crucial role that heterosis has played in crop improvement, its genetic and molecular bases are still elusive. Several types of structured populations were used to discover the genetic architecture...

    Authors: Giorgio Pea, Htay Htay Aung, Elisabetta Frascaroli, Pierangelo Landi and Mario Enrico Pè
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:61
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  38. Microsporidia are diverse spore forming, fungal-related obligate intracellular pathogens infecting a wide range of hosts. This diversity is reflected at the genome level with sizes varying by an order of magni...

    Authors: Anne Caroline Mascarenhas dos Santos, Alexander Thomas Julian, Pingdong Liang, Oscar Juárez and Jean-François Pombert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:237
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  39. The genus Pseudoroegneria (Nevski) Löve (Triticeae, Poaceae), whose genome symbol was designed as “St”, accounts for more than 60% of perennial Triticeae species. The diploid species Psudoroegneria libanotica ...

    Authors: Xingguang Zhai, Dandan Wu, Chen Chen, Xunzhe Yang, Shaobo Cheng, Lina Sha, Shuhan Deng, Yiran Cheng, Xing Fan, Houyang Kang, Yi Wang, Dengcai Liu, Yonghong Zhou and Haiqin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:253
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  40. The giant panda, one of the most primitive carnivores, is an endangered animal. Although it has been the subject of many interesting studies during recent years, little is known about its genome. In order to p...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Yonghui Zhao, Zhaoliang Liu, Ying Zhang, Zhengxing Lian and Ning Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:294
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  41. Meiotic recombination ensures that each child inherits distinct genetic materials from each parent, but the distribution of crossovers along meiotic chromosomes remains difficult to identify. In this study, we...

    Authors: Yun-Shien Lee, Angel Chao, Chun-Houh Chen, Tina Chou, Shih-Yee Mimi Wang and Tzu-Hao Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:434
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  42. Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) is one of the most economically important marine species in Northeast Asia. Information on genetic markers associated with quantitative trait loci (QTL) can be used in b...

    Authors: Cecilia Castaño-Sánchez, Kanako Fuji, Akiyuki Ozaki, Osamu Hasegawa, Takashi Sakamoto, Kagayaki Morishima, Ichiro Nakayama, Atsushi Fujiwara, Tetsuji Masaoka, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kengo Hayashida, Michihira Tagami, Jun Kawai, Yoshihide Hayashizaki and Nobuaki Okamoto
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:554
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  43. The microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi is an obligate intracellular eukaryotic pathogen with a small nuclear genome (2.9 Mbp) consisting of 11 chromosomes. Although each chromosome end is known to contain a ...

    Authors: Ndongo Dia, Laurence Lavie, Ngor Faye, Guy Méténier, Edouard Yeramian, Christophe Duroure, Bhen S. Toguebaye, Roger Frutos, Mbayame N. Niang, Christian P. Vivarès, Choukri Ben Mamoun and Emmanuel Cornillot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:34
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  45. Regional expression biases (REBs) are genetic intervals where gene expression is coordinately changed. For example, if a region of the genome is amplified, often the majority of genes that map within the ampli...

    Authors: Kyle A Furge, Karl J Dykema, Coral Ho and Xin Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2005 6:67
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  47. The substantially large bread wheat genome, organized into highly similar three sub-genomes, renders genomic research challenging. The construction of BAC-based physical maps of individual chromosomes reduces ...

    Authors: Bala Ani Akpinar, Federica Magni, Meral Yuce, Stuart J. Lucas, Hana Šimková, Jan Šafář, Sonia Vautrin, Hélène Bergès, Federica Cattonaro, Jaroslav Doležel and Hikmet Budak
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:453
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  48. Eukaryotic organisms, like the model yeast S. cerevisiae, have linear chromosomes that facilitate organization and protection of nuclear DNA. A recent work described a stepwise break/repair method that enabled fu...

    Authors: Tyler W. Doughty, Rosemary Yu, Lucy Fang-I Chao, Zhongjun Qin, Verena Siewers and Jens Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:688
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  49. Chromocenters are defined as a punctate condensed blocks of chromatin in the interphase cell nuclei of certain cell types with unknown biological significance. In recent years a progress in revealing of chromo...

    Authors: Dmitrii I. Ostromyshenskii, Ekaterina N. Chernyaeva, Inna S. Kuznetsova and Olga I. Podgornaya
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:151
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  50. Morphological and traditional genetic studies of the young Pliocene genus Hyles have led to the understanding that despite its importance for taxonomy, phenotypic similarity of wing patterns does not correlate wi...

    Authors: Anna K. Hundsdoerfer, Tilman Schell, Franziska Patzold, Charlotte J. Wright, Atsuo Yoshido, František Marec, Hana Daneck, Sylke Winkler, Carola Greve, Lars Podsiadlowski, Michael Hiller and Martin Pippel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:443
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