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  1. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is an inability to produce functional pollen that is caused by mutation of the mitochondrial genome. Comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes of lines with and without CMS...

    Authors: Yeong Deuk Jo, Yoomi Choi, Dong-Hwan Kim, Byung-Dong Kim and Byoung-Cheorl Kang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:561
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  2. Breeding for enhanced immune response (IR) has been suggested as a tool to improve inherent animal health. Dairy cows with superior antibody-mediated (AMIR) and cell-mediated immune responses (CMIR) have been ...

    Authors: Kathleen A Thompson-Crispi, Mehdi Sargolzaei, Ricardo Ventura, Mohammed Abo-Ismail, Filippo Miglior, Flavio Schenkel and Bonnie A Mallard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:559
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  4. PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) is a novel and emerging class of small non-coding RNA (sncRNA). Ranging in length from 26-32 nucleotides, this sncRNA is a potent player in guiding the vital regulatory processes w...

    Authors: Arijita Sarkar, Ranjan Kumar Maji, Sudipto Saha and Zhumur Ghosh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:555
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  5. Picea likiangensis var. balfouriana (Rehd. et Wils.) Hillier ex Slavin (also known as Picea balfouriana) is an ecologically and economically important conifer that grows rapidly under optimum conditions and produ...

    Authors: Qingfen Li, Shougong Zhang and Junhui Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:553
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  6. Wine fermentation is a harsh ecological niche to which wine yeast are well adapted. The initial high osmotic pressure and acidity of grape juice is followed by nutrient depletion and increasing concentrations ...

    Authors: Michelle E Walker, Trung D Nguyen, Tommaso Liccioli, Frank Schmid, Nicholas Kalatzis, Joanna F Sundstrom, Jennifer M Gardner and Vladimir Jiranek
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:552
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  7. A LEP transcript up-regulated in lungs of ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) infected by avian influenza A virus was recently described in the Nature Genetics manuscript that reported the duck genome. In vertebrates, LEP

    Authors: Miriam Friedman-Einat and Eyal Seroussi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:551
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  8. The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is both an important livestock species and a model for biomedical research. Exome sequencing has accelerated identification of protein-coding variants underlying phenotypic traits...

    Authors: Christelle Robert, Pablo Fuentes-Utrilla, Karen Troup, Julia Loecherbach, Frances Turner, Richard Talbot, Alan L Archibald, Alan Mileham, Nader Deeb, David A Hume and Mick Watson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:550
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  9. Aureobasidium pullulans is a black-yeast-like fungus used for production of the polysaccharide pullulan and the antimycotic aureobasidin A, and as a biocontrol agent in agriculture. It can cause opportunistic hum...

    Authors: Cene Gostinčar, Robin A Ohm, Tina Kogej, Silva Sonjak, Martina Turk, Janja Zajc, Polona Zalar, Martin Grube, Hui Sun, James Han, Aditi Sharma, Jennifer Chiniquy, Chew Yee Ngan, Anna Lipzen, Kerrie Barry, Igor V Grigoriev…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:549
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  10. Protein kinases constitute a particularly large protein family in Arabidopsis with important functions in cellular signal transduction networks. At the same time Arabidopsis is a model plant with high frequencies...

    Authors: Monika Zulawski, Gunnar Schulze, Rostyslav Braginets, Stefanie Hartmann and Waltraud X Schulze
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:548
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  11. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that downregulate gene expression by base pairing to the 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Up to now, rare information for the...

    Authors: Ya-Nan Song, Li-Li Shi, Zhi-Qiang Liu and Gao-Feng Qiu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:547
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  13. Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a recently discovered class of small non-coding RNAs whose best-understood function is to repress mobile element (ME) activity in animal germline. To date, nearly all piRNA s...

    Authors: Hongseok Ha, Jimin Song, Shuoguo Wang, Aurélie Kapusta, Cédric Feschotte, Kevin C Chen and Jinchuan Xing
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:545
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  14. Myoblasts undergo major changes in their plasma membrane during the initial steps of skeletal muscle differentiation, including major alterations in the distribution of cholesterol. Cholesterol is involved in ...

    Authors: Ana CB Possidonio, Milene Miranda, Gustavo B Gregoracci, Fabiano L Thompson, Manoel L Costa and Claudia Mermelstein
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:544
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  15. There is a growing interest among geneticists in developing panels of Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) aimed at measuring the biogeographical ancestry of individual genomes. The efficiency of these panels i...

    Authors: Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Federico Martinón-Torres and Antonio Salas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:543
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  16. Selection pressure on the number of teats has been applied to be able to provide enough teats for the increase in litter size in pigs. Although many QTL were reported, they cover large chromosomal regions and ...

    Authors: Naomi Duijvesteijn, Jacqueline M Veltmaat, Egbert F Knol and Barbara Harlizius
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:542
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  17. Production of carp dominates world aquaculture. More than 1.1 million tonnes of rohu carp, Labeo rohita (Hamilton), were produced in 2010. Aeromonas hydrophila is a bacterial pathogen causing aeromoniasis in rohu...

    Authors: Nicholas Robinson, Matthew Baranski, Kanta Das Mahapatra, Jatindra Nath Saha, Sweta Das, Jashobanta Mishra, Paramananda Das, Matthew Kent, Mariann Arnyasi and Pramoda Kumar Sahoo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:541
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  18. Sugarcane is the source of sugar in all tropical and subtropical countries and is becoming increasingly important for bio-based fuels. However, its large (10 Gb), polyploid, complex genome has hindered genome ...

    Authors: Nathalia de Setta, Cláudia Barros Monteiro-Vitorello, Cushla Jane Metcalfe, Guilherme Marcelo Queiroga Cruz, Luiz Eduardo Del Bem, Renato Vicentini, Fábio Tebaldi Silveira Nogueira, Roberta Alvares Campos, Sideny Lima Nunes, Paula Cristina Gasperazzo Turrini, Andreia Prata Vieira, Edgar Andrés Ochoa Cruz, Tatiana Caroline Silveira Corrêa, Carlos Takeshi Hotta, Alessandro de Mello Varani, Sonia Vautrin…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:540
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  19. Chromatin is a dynamic but highly regulated structure. DNA-binding proteins such as transcription factors, epigenetic and chromatin modifiers are responsible for regulating specific gene expression pattern and...

    Authors: Ting-Wen Chen, Hsin-Pai Li, Chi-Ching Lee, Ruei-Chi Gan, Po-Jung Huang, Timothy H Wu, Cheng-Yang Lee, Yi-Feng Chang and Petrus Tang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:539
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  20. Oomycetes are a group of filamentous microorganisms that includes both animal and plant pathogens and causes major agricultural losses. Phytophthora species can infect most crops and plants from natural ecosystem...

    Authors: Agnès Attard, Edouard Evangelisti, Naïma Kebdani-Minet, Franck Panabières, Emeline Deleury, Cindy Maggio, Michel Ponchet and Mathieu Gourgues
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:538
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  21. 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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  22. Cochliobolus heterostrophus is a dothideomycete that causes Southern Corn Leaf Blight disease. There are two races, race O and race T that differ by the absence (race O) and presence (race T) of ~ 1.2-Mb of DNA e...

    Authors: Mateus F Santana, José CF Silva, Eduardo SG Mizubuti, Elza F Araújo, Bradford J Condon, B Gillian Turgeon and Marisa V Queiroz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:536
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  23. Burkholderia species play an important ecological role related to xenobiosis, the promotion of plant growth, the biocontrol of agricultural diseases, and symbiotic and non-symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation. ...

    Authors: Luiz Fernando Goda Zuleta, Claúdio de Oliveira Cunha, Fabíola Marques de Carvalho, Luciane Prioli Ciapina, Rangel Celso Souza, Fábio Martins Mercante, Sergio Miana de Faria, José Ivo Baldani, Rosangela Straliotto, Mariangela Hungria and Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:535
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  24. Developmental transcriptional regulatory networks are circuits of transcription factors (TFs) and cis-acting DNA elements (Cis Regulatory Modules, CRMs) that dynamically control expression of downstream genes....

    Authors: Delphine Potier, Denis Seyres, Céline Guichard, Magali Iche-Torres, Stein Aerts, Carl Herrmann and Laurent Perrin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:534
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  26. Gene expression genetic studies in human tissues and cells identify cis- and trans-acting expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). These eQTLs provide insights into regulatory mechanisms underlying disease ris...

    Authors: Xiaoling Zhang, Hinco J Gierman, Daniel Levy, Andrew Plump, Radu Dobrin, Harald HH Goring, Joanne E Curran, Matthew P Johnson, John Blangero, Stuart K Kim, Christopher J O’Donnell, Valur Emilsson and Andrew D Johnson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:532
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  27. Cilia are critical for diverse functions, from motility to signal transduction, and ciliary dysfunction causes inherited diseases termed ciliopathies. Several ciliopathy proteins influence developmental signal...

    Authors: Amy R Barker, Karen S Renzaglia, Kimberley Fry and Helen R Dawe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:531
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  28. By reshuffling genomes, structural genomic reorganizations provide genetic variation on which natural selection can work. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this process has been a long-standing question ...

    Authors: Anna Ullastres, Marta Farré, Laia Capilla and Aurora Ruiz-Herrera
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:530
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  29. The ST239 lineage is a globally disseminated, multiply drug-resistant hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA). We performed whole-genome sequencing of representative HA-MRSA isol...

    Authors: Zheng Wang, Haokui Zhou, Hui Wang, Hongbin Chen, K K Leung, Stephen Tsui and Margaret Ip
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:529
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  31. In light of the changes in precipitation and soil water availability expected with climate change, understanding the mechanisms underlying plant responses to water deficit is essential. Toward that end we have...

    Authors: Eli Meyer, Michael J Aspinwall, David B Lowry, Juan Diego Palacio-Mejía, Tierney L Logan, Philip A Fay and Thomas E Juenger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:527
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  32. Genomes of higher eukaryotes have surprisingly long first introns and in some cases, the first introns have been shown to have higher conservation relative to other introns. However, the functional relevance o...

    Authors: Seung Gu Park, Sridhar Hannenhalli and Sun Shim Choi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:526
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  33. Several miRNAs are known to control myogenesis in vertebrates. Some of them are specifically expressed in muscle while others have a broader tissue expression but are still involved in establishing the muscle ...

    Authors: Catarina Campos, Arvind YM Sundaram, Luisa MP Valente, Luis EC Conceição, Sofia Engrola and Jorge MO Fernandes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:525
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  34. The change from juvenile to mature phase in woody plants is often accompanied by a gradual loss of rooting ability, as well as by reduced microRNA (miR) 156 and increased miR172 expression.

    Authors: Aviv Levy, David Szwerdszarf, Mohamad Abu-Abied, Inna Mordehaev, Yossi Yaniv, Joseph Riov, Tzahi Arazi and Einat Sadot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:524
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  35. Proteases can hydrolyze peptides in aqueous environments. This property has made proteases the most important industrial enzymes by taking up about 60% of the total enzyme market. Microorganisms are the main s...

    Authors: Sebnem Ozturkoglu Budak, Miaomiao Zhou, Carlo Brouwer, Ad Wiebenga, Isabelle Benoit, Marcos Di Falco, Adrian Tsang and Ronald P de Vries
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:523
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  36. The Aquificales are a diverse group of thermophilic bacteria that thrive in terrestrial and marine hydrothermal environments. They can be divided into the families Aquificaceae, Desulfurobacteriaceae and Hydrogen...

    Authors: Marcus Lechner, Astrid I Nickel, Stefanie Wehner, Konstantin Riege, Nicolas Wieseke, Benedikt M Beckmann, Roland K Hartmann and Manja Marz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:522
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  37. Recent studies have demonstrated that antisense transcription is pervasive in budding yeasts and is conserved between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. paradoxus. While studies have examined antisense transcripts o...

    Authors: Krishna B S Swamy, Chih-Hsu Lin, Ming-Ren Yen, Chuen-Yi Wang and Daryi Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:521
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  38. The ZNF217 gene, encoding a C2H2 zinc finger protein, is located at 20q13 and found amplified and overexpressed in greater than 20% of breast tumors. Current studies indicate ZNF217 drives tumorigenesis, yet the ...

    Authors: Seth Frietze, Henriette O’Geen, Laurie E Littlepage, Catalina Simion, Colleen A Sweeney, Peggy J Farnham and Sheryl R Krig
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:520
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  40. Multiple tick saliva proteins, the majority of which are unknown, confer tick resistance in repeatedly infested animals. The objective of this study was to identify the 24-48 h fed Amblyomma americanum tick saliv...

    Authors: Željko M Radulović, Tae K Kim, Lindsay M Porter, Sing-Hoi Sze, Lauren Lewis and Albert Mulenga
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:518
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  41. The chicken (Gallus gallus) is an important model organism that bridges the evolutionary gap between mammals and other vertebrates. Copy number variations (CNVs) are a form of genomic structural variation widely ...

    Authors: Hui Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Du, Jia-Qiang Dong, Hai-Xia Wang, Hong-Yan Shi, Ning Wang, Shou-Zhi Wang and Hui Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:517
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  42. The Ion Torrent PGM is a popular benchtop sequencer that shows promise in replacing conventional Sanger sequencing as the gold standard for mutation detection. Despite the PGM’s reported high accuracy in calli...

    Authors: Zhen Xuan Yeo, Joshua Chee Leong Wong, Steven G Rozen and Ann Siew Gek Lee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:516
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  43. Large amounts of microarray expression data have been generated for the Apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii in an effort to identify genes critical for virulence or developmental transitions. However, researc...

    Authors: Matthew McKnight Croken, Weigang Qiu, Michael W White and Kami Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:515
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  44. The carnitine acetyltransferase (CrAT) is a mitochondrial matrix protein that directly influences intramitochondrial acetyl-CoA pools. Murine CrAT is encoded by a single gene located in the opposite orientatio...

    Authors: Klemens Kienesberger, Aniko Ginta Pordes, Thomas Georg Völk and Reinhold Hofbauer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:514
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  45. Understanding mechanisms that contribute to viral dissemination in mosquito vectors will contribute to our ability to interfere with the transmission of viral pathogens that impact public health. The expressio...

    Authors: Dongyoung Shin, Ayse Civana, Carolina Acevedo and Chelsea T Smartt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:513
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  46. Obesity is a multifactor disease associated with cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension. Recently, gut microbiota was linked to obesity pathogenesisand shown to influence the host metabolism. Moreover, ...

    Authors: Bernardo A Petriz, Alinne P Castro, Jeeser A Almeida, Clarissa PC Gomes, Gabriel R Fernandes, Ricardo H Kruger, Rinaldo W Pereira and Octavio L Franco
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:511
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  47. In recent years advances have been made in the investigative methods of molecular background of canine heart disease. Studies have been conducted to identify specific genes which, when pathologically expressed...

    Authors: Magdalena Hulanicka, Magdalena Garncarz, Marta Parzeniecka-Jaworska and Michał Jank
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:509
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  48. The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) is one of the most destructive rice plant pests in Asia. N. lugens causes extensive damage to rice by sucking rice phloem sap, which results in hopper burn (complete dea...

    Authors: Yan-Yuan Bao, Xia Qin, Bing Yu, Li-Bo Chen, Zhe-Chao Wang and Chuan-Xi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:507
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  49. Although captured and cultivated marine shrimp constitute highly important seafood in terms of both economic value and production quantity, biologists have little knowledge of the shrimp genome and this partly...

    Authors: Parpakron Korshkari, Sirintra Vaiwsri, Timothy W Flegel, Sudsanguan Ngamsuriyaroj, Burachai Sonthayanon and Anuphap Prachumwat
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:506
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  50. The burst size of a phage is important prior to phage therapy and probiotic usage. The efficiency for a phage to burst its host bacterium can result from molecular domino effects of the phage gene expressions ...

    Authors: Wangta Liu, Ying-Rong Lin, Ming-Wei Lu, Ping-Jyun Sung, Wei-Hsien Wang and Chan-Shing Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:505
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