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  1. Actinobacteria of the genus Nocardia usually live in soil or water and play saprophytic roles, but they also opportunistically infect the respiratory system, skin, and other organs of humans and animals. Primaril...

    Authors: Hisayuki Komaki, Natsuko Ichikawa, Akira Hosoyama, Azusa Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Tetsuhiro Matsuzawa, Ken-ichiro Suzuki, Nobuyuki Fujita and Tohru Gonoi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:323
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  2. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is not only important for exploiting heterosis in crop plants, but also as a model for investigating nuclear-cytoplasmic interaction. CMS may be caused by mutations, rearrangem...

    Authors: Shuangping Heng, Chao Wei, Bing Jing, Zhengjie Wan, Jing Wen, Bin Yi, Chaozhi Ma, Jinxing Tu, Tingdong Fu and Jinxiong Shen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:322
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  3. In metazoans, Piwi-related Argonaute proteins play important roles in maintaining germline integrity and fertility and have been linked to a class of germline-enriched small RNAs termed piRNAs. Caenorhabditis ele...

    Authors: Jia-Jia Wang, Dong-Ya Cui, Tengfei Xiao, Xubin Sun, Peng Zhang, Runsheng Chen, Shunmin He and Da-Wei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:321
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  4. Gene-based analysis has become popular in genomic research because of its appealing biological and statistical properties compared with those of a single-locus analysis. However, only a few, if any, studies ha...

    Authors: Hsin-Chou Yang, Chien-Wei Lin, Chia-Wei Chen and James J Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:319
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  5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a high incidence of hospital infections that represents a threat to immune compromised patients. Genomic studies have shown that, in contrast to other path...

    Authors: María-Victoria Grosso-Becerra, Christian Santos-Medellín, Abigail González-Valdez, José-Luis Méndez, Gabriela Delgado, Rosario Morales-Espinosa, Luis Servín-González, Luis-David Alcaraz and Gloria Soberón-Chávez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:318
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  6. Using motif detection programs it is fairly straightforward to identify conserved cis-sequences in promoters of co-regulated genes. In contrast, the identification of the transcription factors (TFs) interacting w...

    Authors: Christian Dubos, Zsolt Kelemen, Alvaro Sebastian, Lorenz Bülow, Gunnar Huep, Wenjia Xu, Damaris Grain, Fabien Salsac, Cecile Brousse, Loïc Lepiniec, Bernd Weisshaar, Bruno Contreras-Moreira and Reinhard Hehl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:317
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  7. Mnemiopsis leidyi is a ctenophore native to the coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. A number of studies on Mnemiopsis have led to a better understanding of many key biological processes, and these studi...

    Authors: R Travis Moreland, Anh-Dao Nguyen, Joseph F Ryan, Christine E Schnitzler, Bernard J Koch, Katherine Siewert, Tyra G Wolfsberg and Andreas D Baxevanis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:316
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  8. Induced resistance (IR) can be part of a sustainable plant protection strategy against important plant diseases. β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) can induce resistance in a wide range of plants against several types...

    Authors: Therese Bengtsson, Deborah Weighill, Estelle Proux-Wéra, Fredrik Levander, Svante Resjö, Dharani Dhar Burra, Laith Ibrahim Moushib, Pete E Hedley, Erland Liljeroth, Dan Jacobson, Erik Alexandersson and Erik Andreasson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:315
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  9. Mining novel biomarkers from gene expression profiles for accurate disease classification is challenging due to small sample size and high noise in gene expression measurements. Several studies have proposed i...

    Authors: Rendong Yang, Yun Bai, Zhaohui Qin and Tianwei Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:314
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  10. Pyrenochaeta lycopersici is a soil-dwelling ascomycete pathogen that causes corky root rot disease in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and other Solanaceous crops, reducing fruit yields by up to 75%. Fungal pathogen...

    Authors: Maria Aragona, Andrea Minio, Alberto Ferrarini, Maria Teresa Valente, Paolo Bagnaresi, Luigi Orrù, Paola Tononi, Gianpiero Zamperin, Alessandro Infantino, Giampiero Valè, Luigi Cattivelli and Massimo Delledonne
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:313
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  11. Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa, is a preeminent model for studying nitrogen fixation, symbiosis, and legume genomics. The Medicago sequencing project began in 2003 with the goal to decipher sequ...

    Authors: Haibao Tang, Vivek Krishnakumar, Shelby Bidwell, Benjamin Rosen, Agnes Chan, Shiguo Zhou, Laurent Gentzbittel, Kevin L Childs, Mark Yandell, Heidrun Gundlach, Klaus FX Mayer, David C Schwartz and Christopher D Town
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:312
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  12. Micro-organisms inhabiting teeth surfaces grow on biofilms where a specific and complex succession of bacteria has been described by co-aggregation tests and DNA-based studies. Although the composition of oral...

    Authors: Alfonso Benítez-Páez, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Aurea Simón-Soro and Alex Mira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:311
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  13. The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is a paradigm for chronic bacterial infections. Its persistence in the stomach mucosa is facilitated by several mechanisms of immune evasion and immune modulation, b...

    Authors: Wolfgang Fischer, Ute Breithaupt, Beate Kern, Stella I Smith, Carolin Spicher and Rainer Haas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:310
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  14. Oil palm is an important perennial oil crop with an extremely long selection cycle of 10 to 12 years. As such, any tool that speeds up its genetic improvement process, such as marker-assisted breeding is inval...

    Authors: Ngoot-Chin Ting, Johannes Jansen, Sean Mayes, Festo Massawe, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Leslie Cheng-Li Ooi, Cheuk Weng Chin, Xaviar Arulandoo, Tzer-Ying Seng, Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee, Maizura Ithnin and Rajinder Singh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:309
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  15. Tuberculosis (TB) poses a worldwide threat due to advancing multidrug-resistant strains and deadly co-infections with Human immunodeficiency virus. Today large amounts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome s...

    Authors: Ekaterina N Chernyaeva, Marina V Shulgina, Mikhail S Rotkevich, Pavel V Dobrynin, Serguei A Simonov, Egor A Shitikov, Dmitry S Ischenko, Irina Y Karpova, Elena S Kostryukova, Elena N Ilina, Vadim M Govorun, Vyacheslav Y Zhuravlev, Olga A Manicheva, Peter K Yablonsky, Yulia D Isaeva, Elena Y Nosova…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:308
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  16. Next generation sequencing based technologies are being extensively used to study transcriptomes. Among these, cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) is specialized in detecting the most 5’ ends of RNA molecul...

    Authors: Hiroko Ohmiya, Morana Vitezic, Martin C Frith, Masayoshi Itoh, Piero Carninci, Alistair RR Forrest, Yoshihide Hayashizaki and Timo Lassmann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:269
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  17. A large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) but, as yet, no high-throughput genotyping platform is available for this species. C. carpio is an im...

    Authors: Jian Xu, Zixia Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xianhu Zheng, Jiongtang Li, Yanliang Jiang, Youyi Kuang, Yan Zhang, Jianxin Feng, Chuangju Li, Juhua Yu, Qiang Li, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yuanyuan Liu, Peng Xu and Xiaowen Sun
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:307
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  18. Phenotypic plasticity in defensive traits occurs in many species when facing heterogeneous predator regimes. The waterflea Daphnia is well-known for showing a variety of these so called inducible defences. Howeve...

    Authors: Kathrin A Otte, Thomas Fröhlich, Georg J Arnold and Christian Laforsch
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:306
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  19. With its plumage color dimorphism and unique history in North America, including a recent population expansion and an epizootic of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), the house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) is a model ...

    Authors: Qu Zhang, Geoffrey E Hill, Scott V Edwards and Niclas Backström
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:305
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  20. The progress in mapping RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions at the transcriptome-wide level paves the way to decipher possible combinatorial patterns embedded in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expres...

    Authors: Gianluca Corrado, Toma Tebaldi, Giulio Bertamini, Fabrizio Costa, Alessandro Quattrone, Gabriella Viero and Andrea Passerini
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:304
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  21. The endosteum of the bone marrow provides a specialized hypoxic niche that may serve to preserve the integrity, pluripotency, longevity and stemness of resident mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). To explore the mo...

    Authors: Xinyang Hu, Rongrong Wu, Lina A Shehadeh, Qing Zhou, Cizhong Jiang, Xin Huang, Ling Zhang, Feng Gao, Xianbao Liu, Hong Yu, Keith A Webster and Jian’an Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:303
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  22. The soil worm Enchytraeus crypticus (Oligochaeta) is an ecotoxicology model species that, until now, was without genome or transcriptome sequence information. The present research aims at studying the transcripto...

    Authors: Marta P Castro-Ferreira, Tjalf E de Boer, John K Colbourne, Riet Vooijs, Cornelis AM van Gestel, Nico M van Straalen, Amadeu MVM Soares, Mónica JB Amorim and Dick Roelofs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:302
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  25. Variation in seed oil composition and content among soybean varieties is largely attributed to differences in transcript sequences and/or transcript accumulation of oil production related genes in seeds. Disco...

    Authors: Wolfgang Goettel, Eric Xia, Robert Upchurch, Ming-Li Wang, Pengyin Chen and Yong-Qiang Charles An
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:299
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  27. Sprague and Tatum (1942) introduced the concepts of general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) to evaluate the breeding parents and F1 hybrid performance, respectively. Since then, th...

    Authors: Gaoyuan Song, Zhibin Guo, Zhenwei Liu, Xuefeng Qu, Daiming Jiang, Wei Wang, Yingguo Zhu and Daichang Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:297
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  28. WUSCHEL (WUS)-related homeobox (WOX) protein family members play important roles in the maintenance and proliferation of the stem cell niche in the shoot apical meristem (SAM), root apical meristem (RAM), and ...

    Authors: Bobin Liu, Lin Wang, Jin Zhang, Jianbo Li, Huanquan Zheng, Jun Chen and Mengzhu Lu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:296
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  30. The zygomycete fungi like Rhizomucor miehei have been extensively exploited for the production of various enzymes. As a thermophilic fungus, R. miehei is capable of growing at temperatures that approach the upper...

    Authors: Peng Zhou, Guoqiang Zhang, Shangwu Chen, Zhengqiang Jiang, Yanbin Tang, Bernard Henrissat, Qiaojuan Yan, Shaoqing Yang, Chin-Fu Chen, Bing Zhang and Zhenglin Du
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:294
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  31. Understanding the basis for volatile organic compound (VOC) biosynthesis and regulation is of great importance for the genetic improvement of fruit flavor. Lactones constitute an essential group of fatty acid-...

    Authors: José F Sánchez-Sevilla, Eduardo Cruz-Rus, Victoriano Valpuesta, Miguel A Botella and Iraida Amaya
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:218
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  32. There is interest in improving the flavor of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) varieties. Fruit flavor is shaped by combinations of sugars, acids and volatile compounds. Many efforts seek to use genomic...

    Authors: Alan H Chambers, Jeremy Pillet, Anne Plotto, Jinhe Bai, Vance M Whitaker and Kevin M Folta
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:217
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  33. Using genome-wide genetic, gene expression, and microRNA expression (miRNA) data, we developed an integrative approach to investigate the genetic and epigenetic basis of chemotherapeutic sensitivity.

    Authors: Bonnie LaCroix, Eric R Gamazon, Divya Lenkala, Hae Kyung Im, Paul Geeleher, Dana Ziliak, Nancy J Cox and Rong Stephanie Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:292
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  34. It has been shown previously that aminocoumarin antibiotics such as novobiocin lead to immediate downregulation of recA expression and thereby inhibit the SOS response, mutation frequency and recombination capaci...

    Authors: Wiebke Schröder, Jörg Bernhardt, Gabriella Marincola, Ludger Klein-Hitpass, Alexander Herbig, Guido Krupp, Kay Nieselt and Christiane Wolz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:291
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  35. Bisulfite sequencing is the most efficient single nucleotide resolution method for analysis of methylation status at whole genome scale, but improved quality control metrics are needed to better standardize ex...

    Authors: Gary G Chen, Alpha B Diallo, Raphaël Poujol, Corina Nagy, Alfredo Staffa, Kathryn Vaillancourt, Pierre-Eric Lutz, Vanessa K Ota, Deborah C Mash, Gustavo Turecki and Carl Ernst
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:290
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  36. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate various biological processes in plants. Considerable data are available on miRNAs involved in the development of rice, maize and barley. In contrast, little is known about miRNAs an...

    Authors: Ran Han, Chao Jian, Jinyang Lv, Yan Yan, Qing Chi, Zhanjie Li, Qian Wang, Jin Zhang, Xiangli Liu and Huixian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:289
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  37. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are ideal signatures for subtyping monomorphic pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis. Here we report the use of next-generation sequencing technology to investigate the histo...

    Authors: Guillaume Girault, Yann Blouin, Gilles Vergnaud and Sylviane Derzelle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:288
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  38. Intron-derived long noncoding RNAs with snoRNA ends (sno-lncRNAs) are highly expressed from the imprinted Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) region on human chromosome 15. However, sno-lncRNAs from other regions of the ...

    Authors: Xiao-Ou Zhang, Qing-Fei Yin, Hai-Bin Wang, Yang Zhang, Tian Chen, Ping Zheng, Xuhua Lu, Ling-Ling Chen and Li Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:287
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  39. Chorella is the representative taxon of Chlorellales in Trebouxiophyceae, and its chloroplast (cp) genomic information has been thought to depend only on studies concerning Chlorella vulgaris and GenBank informat...

    Authors: Haeyoung Jeong, Jong-Min Lim, Jihye Park, Young Mi Sim, Han-Gu Choi, Jungho Lee and Won-Joong Jeong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:286
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  40. The date palm is one of the oldest cultivated fruit trees. It is critical in many ways to cultures in arid lands by providing highly nutritious fruit while surviving extreme heat and environmental conditions. ...

    Authors: Lisa S Mathew, Manuel Spannagl, Ameena Al-Malki, Binu George, Maria F Torres, Eman K Al-Dous, Eman K Al-Azwani, Emad Hussein, Sweety Mathew, Klaus FX Mayer, Yasmin Ali Mohamoud, Karsten Suhre and Joel A Malek
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:285
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  42. The pectinolytic enterobacteria of the Pectobacterium and Dickeya genera are causative agents of maceration-associated diseases affecting a wide variety of crops and ornamentals. For the past decade, the emergenc...

    Authors: Jacques Pédron, Samuel Mondy, Yannick Raoul des Essarts, Frédérique Van Gijsegem and Denis Faure
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:283
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  43. Ranking and identifying biomarkers that are associated with disease from genome-wide measurements holds significant promise for understanding the genetic basis of common diseases. The large number of single nu...

    Authors: Matthew E Stokes, M Michael Barmada, M Ilyas Kamboh and Shyam Visweswaran
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:282
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  44. Basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor gene family is one of the largest and most diverse families in plants. Current studies have shown that the bZIP proteins regulate numerous growth and developmen...

    Authors: Jinyi Liu, Nana Chen, Fei Chen, Bin Cai, Silvia Dal Santo, Giovanni Battista Tornielli, Mario Pezzotti and Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:281
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  45. Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of bacterial wilt, is a genetically diverse bacterial plant pathogen present in tropical and subtropical regions of the world that infects more than 200 plant species, inc...

    Authors: Ana M Bocsanczy, Ute CM Achenbach, Arianna Mangravita-Novo, Marjorie Chow and David J Norman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:280
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  46. Negative energy balance (NEB) is an altered metabolic state in high yielding cows that occurs during the first few weeks postpartum when energy demands for lactation and maintenance exceed the energy supply fr...

    Authors: Attia Fatima, David J Lynn, Padraic O’Boyle, Cathal Seoighe and Dermot Morris
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:279
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  47. MYB is the largest plant transcription factor gene family playing vital roles in plant growth and development. However, it has not been systematically studied in Salvia miltiorrhiza, an economically important med...

    Authors: Caili Li and Shanfa Lu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:277
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  48. Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) has a large, complex and hexaploid genome consisting of A, B and D homoeologous chromosome sets. Therefore each wheat gene potentially exists as a trio of A, B and D homoeoloci, ea...

    Authors: Lindsey J Leach, Eric J Belfield, Caifu Jiang, Carly Brown, Aziz Mithani and Nicholas P Harberd
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:276
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  49. Genetic markers are widely used to understand the biology and population dynamics of disease vectors, but often markers are limited in the resolution they provide. In particular, the delineation of population ...

    Authors: Gordana Rašić, Igor Filipović, Andrew R Weeks and Ary A Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:275
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  50. Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIRs) are surface receptors of natural killer cells that bind to their corresponding Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) class I ligands, making them interesting candidate genes...

    Authors: Nikolas Pontikos, Deborah J Smyth, Helen Schuilenburg, Joanna MM Howson, Neil M Walker, Oliver S Burren, Hui Guo, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Wei-Min Chen, Patrick Concannon, Stephen S Rich, Jyothi Jayaraman, Wei Jiang, James A Traherne, John Trowsdale, John A Todd…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:274
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