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  2. Soybean is one of the most economically important crops in the world. The cotyledon is the nutrient storage area in seeds, and it is critical for seed quality and yield. Cotyledon mutants are important for the...

    Authors: Guixia Shi, Fang Huang, Yu Gong, Guangli Xu, Jingjing Yu, Zhenbin Hu, Qingsheng Cai and Deyue Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:510
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  3. A wealth of genome sequences has provided thousands of genes of unknown function, but identification of functions for the large numbers of hypothetical genes in phytopathogens remains a challenge that impacts ...

    Authors: Bing Ma, Amy O Charkowski, Jeremy D Glasner and Nicole T Perna
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:508
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  6. To combat infection to biotic stress plants elicit the biosynthesis of numerous natural products, many of which are valuable pharmaceutical compounds. Jasmonate is a central regulator of defense response to pa...

    Authors: Craig Schluttenhofer, Sitakanta Pattanaik, Barunava Patra and Ling Yuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:502
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  7. The chemical senses of insects mediate behaviors that are closely linked to survival and reproduction. The order Diptera contains two model organisms, the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster and the mosquito Anop...

    Authors: Martin N Andersson, Elin Videvall, Kimberly KO Walden, Marion O Harris, Hugh M Robertson and Christer Löfstedt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:501
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  8. The species Neorhizobium galegae comprises two symbiovars that induce nodules on Galega plants. Strains of both symbiovars, orientalis and officinalis, induce nodules on the same plant species, but fix nitrogen o...

    Authors: Janina Österman, Joanne Marsh, Pia K Laine, Zhen Zeng, Edward Alatalo, John T Sullivan, J Peter W Young, Jane Thomas-Oates, Lars Paulin and Kristina Lindström
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:500
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  9. The advent of large-scale gene expression technologies has helped to reveal in eukaryotic cells, the existence of thousands of non-coding transcripts, whose function and significance remain mostly poorly under...

    Authors: Coline Billerey, Mekki Boussaha, Diane Esquerré, Emmanuelle Rebours, Anis Djari, Cédric Meersseman, Christophe Klopp, Daniel Gautheret and Dominique Rocha
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:499
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  10. Several major crop species are current or ancient polyploids. To better describe the genetic factors controlling traits of agronomic interest (QTL), it is necessary to understand the structural and functional ...

    Authors: Berline Fopa Fomeju, Cyril Falentin, Gilles Lassalle, Maria J Manzanares-Dauleux and Régine Delourme
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:498
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  11. In order to get global molecular understanding of one of the most important crop diseases worldwide, we investigated compatible and incompatible interactions between Phytophthora infestans and potato (Solanum tub...

    Authors: Ashfaq Ali, Erik Alexandersson, Marianne Sandin, Svante Resjö, Marit Lenman, Pete Hedley, Fredrik Levander and Erik Andreasson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:497
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  12. The free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of the rapidly progressing and typically fatal primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in humans. Despite the devastating nature of this disease, ...

    Authors: Denise C Zysset-Burri, Norbert Müller, Christian Beuret, Manfred Heller, Nadia Schürch, Bruno Gottstein and Matthias Wittwer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:496
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  13. In conditions of nitrogen limitation, Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains differ in their fermentation capacities, due to differences in their nitrogen requirements. The mechanisms ensuring the maintenance of glycol...

    Authors: Claire Brice, Isabelle Sanchez, Frédéric Bigey, Jean-Luc Legras and Bruno Blondin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:495
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  14. Recent chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments in fly, mouse, and human have revealed the existence of high-occupancy target (HOT) regions or “hotspots” that show enrichment across many assayed DNA-bi...

    Authors: Lucas D Ward, Junbai Wang and Harmen J Bussemaker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:494
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  16. It is well known that mushrooms produce defense proteins and secondary metabolites against predators and competitors; however, less is known about the correlation between the tissue-specific expression and the...

    Authors: David Fernando Plaza, Chia-Wei Lin, Niels Sebastiaan Johannes van der Velden, Markus Aebi and Markus Künzler
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:492
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  17. Black pearl farming is based on culture of the blacklip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera (Mollusca, lophotrochozoa), a protandrous hermaphrodite species. At first maturation, all individuals are males. The fem...

    Authors: Vaihiti Teaniniuraitemoana, Arnaud Huvet, Peva Levy, Christophe Klopp, Emeline Lhuillier, Nabila Gaertner-Mazouni, Yannick Gueguen and Gilles Le Moullac
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:491
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  18. Enterococcus mundtii is a yellow-pigmented microorganism rarely found in human infections. The draft genome sequence of E. mundtii was recently announced. Its genome encodes at least 2,589 genes and 57 RNAs, and ...

    Authors: Guillermo D Repizo, Martín Espariz, Víctor S Blancato, Cristian A Suárez, Luis Esteban and Christian Magni
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:489
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  19. Reprogrammed cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells (NT-ESCs), are similar in many respects to natural embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However, previous ...

    Authors: Botao Zhao, Dehua Yang, Jing Jiang, Jinsong Li, Chunsun Fan, Menggui Huang, Yi Fan, Yan Jin and Youxin Jin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:488
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  20. Understanding the links between genetic, epigenetic and non-genetic factors throughout the lifespan and across generations and their role in disease susceptibility and disease progression offer entirely new av...

    Authors: Geneviève Almouzni, Lucia Altucci, Bruno Amati, Neil Ashley, David Baulcombe, Nathalie Beaujean, Christoph Bock, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Jean Bousquet, Sigurd Braun, Brigitte Bressac-de Paillerets, Marion Bussemakers, Laura Clarke, Ana Conesa, Xavier Estivill, Alireza Fazeli…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:487
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  21. Saprophytic filamentous fungi are ubiquitous micro-organisms that play an essential role in photosynthetic carbon recycling. The wood-decayer Pycnoporus cinnabarinus is a model fungus for the study of plant cell ...

    Authors: Anthony Levasseur, Anne Lomascolo, Olivier Chabrol, Francisco J Ruiz-Dueñas, Eva Boukhris-Uzan, François Piumi, Ursula Kües, Arthur F J Ram, Claude Murat, Mireille Haon, Isabelle Benoit, Yonathan Arfi, Didier Chevret, Elodie Drula, Min Jin Kwon, Philippe Gouret…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:486
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  22. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that regulate protein levels post-transcriptionally. miRNAs play important regulatory roles in many cellular processes and have been implicated in several diseases...

    Authors: Rounak Nassirpour, Sachin Mathur, Mark M Gosink, Yizheng Li, Ahmed M Shoieb, Joanna Wood, Shawn P O’Neil, Bruce L Homer and Laurence O Whiteley
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:485
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  23. The mammalian inner ear contains sensory organs, the organ of Corti in the cochlea and cristae and maculae in the vestibule, with each comprised of patterned sensory epithelia that are responsible for hearing ...

    Authors: Anya Rudnicki, Ofer Isakov, Kathy Ushakov, Shaked Shivatzki, Inbal Weiss, Lilach M Friedman, Noam Shomron and Karen B Avraham
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:484
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  24. Alteromonas is a genus of marine bacteria that is very easy to isolate and grow in the laboratory. There are genomes available of the species Alteromonas macleodii from different locations around the world and an...

    Authors: Mario López-Pérez, Aitor Gonzaga, Elena P Ivanova and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:483
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  25. In recent years, the number of human infections caused by opportunistic pathogens has increased dramatically. Plant rhizospheres are one of the most typical natural reservoirs for these pathogens but they also...

    Authors: Peyman Alavi, Margaret R Starcher, Gerhard G Thallinger, Christin Zachow, Henry Müller and Gabriele Berg
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:482
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  26. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with harmful effects in animals and humans. Although PCB 153 is one of the most abundant among PCBs detected in animal tissues, its mec...

    Authors: Fekadu Yadetie, Odd André Karlsen, Marta Eide, Christer Hogstrand and Anders Goksøyr
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:481
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  27. Copy number variations (CNVs) are a main source of genomic structural variations underlying animal evolution and production traits. Here, with one pure-blooded Angus bull as reference, we describe a genome-wid...

    Authors: Liangzhi Zhang, Shangang Jia, Mingjuan Yang, Yao Xu, Congjun Li, Jiajie Sun, Yongzhen Huang, Xianyong Lan, Chuzhao Lei, Yang Zhou, Chunlei Zhang, Xin Zhao and Hong Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:480
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  28. Riemerella anatipestifer is one of the most important pathogens of ducks. However, the molecular mechanisms of R. anatipestifer infection are poorly understood. In particular, the lack of genomic information from...

    Authors: Xiaojia Wang, Wenbin Liu, Dekang Zhu, LinFeng Yang, MaFeng Liu, Sanjun Yin, MingShu Wang, RenYong Jia, Shun Chen, KunFeng Sun, Anchun Cheng and Xiaoyue Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:479
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  30. In contrast with wild species, cultivated crop genomes consist of reshuffled recombination blocks, which occurred by crossing and selection processes. Accordingly, recombination block-based genomics analysis c...

    Authors: Yul Ho Kim, Hyang Mi Park, Tae-Young Hwang, Seuk Ki Lee, Man Soo Choi, Sungwoong Jho, Seungwoo Hwang, Hak-Min Kim, Dongwoo Lee, Byoung-Chul Kim, Chang Pyo Hong, Yun Sung Cho, Hyunmin Kim, Kwang Ho Jeong, Min Jung Seo, Hong Tai Yun…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:477
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  31. Free circulating DNA (fcDNA) has many potential clinical applications, due to the non-invasive way in which it is collected. However, because of the low concentration of fcDNA in blood, genome-wide analysis ca...

    Authors: Kristina Warton, Vita Lin, Tina Navin, Nicola J Armstrong, Warren Kaplan, Kevin Ying, Brian Gloss, Helena Mangs, Shalima S Nair, Neville F Hacker, Robert L Sutherland, Susan J Clark and Goli Samimi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:476
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  32. Poplar seed hair is an environmental annoyance in northern China due to its abundance and widespread airborne distribution after maturation. The morphogenesis and molecular mechanisms of its development are no...

    Authors: Meixia Ye, Zhong Chen, Xiaoxing Su, Lexiang Ji, Jia Wang, Weihua Liao, Huandi Ma and Xinmin An
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:475
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  33. MiRNAs from body fluids gain more and more attraction as biomarker candidates. Besides serum, patterns from whole blood are increasingly considered as markers for human pathologies. Usually, the contribution o...

    Authors: Petra Leidinger, Christina Backes, Benjamin Meder, Eckart Meese and Andreas Keller
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:474
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  34. Salinivibrios are moderately halophilic bacteria found in salted meats, brines and hypersaline environments. We obtained three novel conspecific Salinivibrio strains closely related to S. costicola, from Socompa ...

    Authors: Marta F Gorriti, Graciela M Dias, Luciane A Chimetto, Amaro E Trindade-Silva, Bruno S Silva, Milene MA Mesquita, Gustavo B Gregoracci, Maria E Farias, Cristiane C Thompson and Fabiano L Thompson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:473
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  35. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) coupled to high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-Seq) techniques can reveal DNA regions bound by transcription factors (TF). Analysis of the ChIP-Seq regions is now a central co...

    Authors: Rebecca Worsley Hunt, Anthony Mathelier, Luis del Peso and Wyeth W Wasserman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:472
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  36. The simplest definition of cis-eQTLs versus trans, refers to genetic variants that affect expression in an allele specific manner, with implications on underlying mechanism. Yet, due to technical limitations of e...

    Authors: Yehudit Hasin-Brumshtein, Farhad Hormozdiari, Lisa Martin, Atila van Nas, Eleazar Eskin, Aldons J Lusis and Thomas A Drake
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:471
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  37. Half-smooth tongue sole (Cynoglossus semilaevis) is a valuable fish for aquaculture in China. This fish exhibits sexual dimorphism, particularly different growth rates and body sizes between two genders. Thus, C....

    Authors: Wenji Wang, Qilin Yi, Liman Ma, Xiaosu Zhou, Haitao Zhao, Xubo Wang, Jie Qi, Haiyang Yu, Zhigang Wang and Quanqi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:470
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  38. Due to excessive antibiotic use, drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis has become a serious public health threat and a major obstacle to disease control in many countries. To better understand the evolution o...

    Authors: Fei Liu, Yongfei Hu, Qi Wang, Hong Min Li, George F Gao, Cui Hua Liu and Baoli Zhu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:469
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  39. Mitogenomic phylogenies have revealed well-supported relationships for many eukaryote groups. In the order Lepidoptera, 113 species mitogenomes had been sequenced (May 14, 2014). However, these data are restri...

    Authors: Li-Wei Wu, Li-Hung Lin, David C Lees and Yu-Feng Hsu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:468
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  41. The cotton (Gossypium spp.) fiber cell is an important unicellular model for studying cell differentiation. There is evidence suggesting that phosphorylation is a critical post-translational modification involved...

    Authors: Qifeng Ma, Man Wu, Wenfeng Pei, Haijing Li, Xingli Li, Jinfa Zhang, Jiwen Yu and Shuxun Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:466
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  42. Although a variety of genetic changes have been implicated in causing phenotypic differences among dogs, the role of copy number variants (CNVs) and their impact on phenotypic variation is still poorly underst...

    Authors: Oscar Ramirez, Iñigo Olalde, Jonas Berglund, Belen Lorente-Galdos, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, Javier Quilez, Matthew T Webster, Robert K Wayne, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Carles Vilà and Tomas Marques-Bonet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:465
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  43. Understanding molecular mechanisms that control photosynthesis and water use efficiency in response to drought is crucial for plant species from dry areas. This study aimed to identify QTL for these traits in ...

    Authors: Marina de Miguel, José-Antonio Cabezas, Nuria de María, David Sánchez-Gómez, María-Ángeles Guevara, María-Dolores Vélez, Enrique Sáez-Laguna, Luis-Manuel Díaz, Jose-Antonio Mancha, María-Carmen Barbero, Carmen Collada, Carmen Díaz-Sala, Ismael Aranda and María-Teresa Cervera
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:464
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  44. Two novel avipoxviruses from South Africa have been sequenced, one from a Feral Pigeon (Columba livia) (FeP2) and the other from an African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) (PEPV). We present a purpose-designed bioi...

    Authors: Kristy Offerman, Olivia Carulei, Anelda Philine van der Walt, Nicola Douglass and Anna-Lise Williamson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:463
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  45. Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) is a severe cardiac disease of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) recently associated with a double-stranded RNA virus, Piscine Myocarditis Virus (PMCV). The disease has been diagnosed in...

    Authors: Laura Martinez-Rubio, Øystein Evensen, Aleksei Krasnov, Sven Martin Jørgensen, Simon Wadsworth, Kari Ruohonen, Jose LG Vecino and Douglas R Tocher
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:462
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  46. The nonexpressor of pathogenesis-related genes 1, NPR1 (also known as NIM1 and SAI1), is a key regulator of SA-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in Arabidopsis. In rice, the NPR1 homolog 1 (NH1) interac...

    Authors: Mawsheng Chern, Wei Bai, Deling Ruan, Taeyun Oh, Xuewei Chen and Pamela C Ronald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:461
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  47. Animal venoms attract enormous interest given their potential for pharmacological discovery and understanding the evolution of natural chemistries. Next-generation transcriptomics and proteomics provide unpara...

    Authors: Robert A Haney, Nadia A Ayoub, Thomas H Clarke, Cheryl Y Hayashi and Jessica E Garb
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:366
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  48. Spiders (Order Araneae) are essential predators in every terrestrial ecosystem largely because they have evolved potent arsenals of silk and venom. Spider silks are high performance materials made almost entir...

    Authors: Thomas H Clarke, Jessica E Garb, Cheryl Y Hayashi, Robert A Haney, Alexander K Lancaster, Susan Corbett and Nadia A Ayoub
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:365
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  49. Annotating mammalian genomes for noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) is nontrivial since far from all ncRNAs are known and the computational models are resource demanding. Currently, the human genome holds the best mammal...

    Authors: Christian Anthon, Hakim Tafer, Jakob H Havgaard, Bo Thomsen, Jakob Hedegaard, Stefan E Seemann, Sachin Pundhir, Stephanie Kehr, Sebastian Bartschat, Mathilde Nielsen, Rasmus O Nielsen, Merete Fredholm, Peter F Stadler and Jan Gorodkin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:459
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  50. The nature of dynamic traits with their phenotypic plasticity suggests that they are under the control of a dynamic genetic regulation. We employed a precision phenotyping platform to non-invasively assess bio...

    Authors: Wenxin Liu, Manje Gowda, Jochen C Reif, Volker Hahn, Arno Ruckelshausen, Elmar A Weissmann, Hans Peter Maurer and Tobias Würschum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:458
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