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  1. Mesorhizobium metallidurans STM 2683T and Mesorhizobium sp. strain STM 4661 were isolated from nodules of the metallicolous legume Anthyllis vulneraria from distant mining spoils. They tolerate unusually high Zin...

    Authors: Géraldine Maynaud, Brigitte Brunel, Damien Mornico, Maxime Durot, Dany Severac, Emeric Dubois, Elisabeth Navarro, Jean-Claude Cleyet-Marel and Antoine Le Quéré
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:292
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  2. The principal toxicity of acute organophosphate (OP) pesticide poisoning is the disruption of neurotransmission through inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). However, other mechanisms leading to persisten...

    Authors: John A Lewis, Elizabeth A Gehman, Christine E Baer and David A Jackson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:291
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  3. With the emergence of next-generation sequencing, the availability of prokaryotic genome sequences is expanding rapidly. A total of 5,276 genomes have been released since 2008, yet only 1,692 genomes were comp...

    Authors: Biao Tang, Qi Wang, Minjun Yang, Feng Xie, Yongqiang Zhu, Ying Zhuo, Shengyue Wang, Hong Gao, Xiaoming Ding, Lixin Zhang, Guoping Zhao and Huajun Zheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:289
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  4. The second ISCB-Asia conference of the International Society for Computational Biology took place December 17-19, 2012, in Shenzhen, China. The conference was co-hosted by BGI as the first Shenzhen Conference ...

    Authors: Konstantin Tretyakov, Tatyana Goldberg, Victor X Jin and Paul Horton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 2):I1
    Content type: Introduction Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

  5. DNA methylation analysis is useful for investigation of male fertility in mammals, whereas the reliance on tissues limits the research on human. We have previously found the presence of high concentration of c...

    Authors: Chunlin Wu, Xiaofang Ding, Honggang Li, Changhong Zhu and Chengliang Xiong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:288
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  6. Pigmentation patterns are one of the most recognizable phenotypes across the animal kingdom. They play an important role in camouflage, communication, mate recognition and mate choice. Most progress on underst...

    Authors: Claire T O’Quin, Alexi C Drilea, Matthew A Conte and Thomas D Kocher
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:287
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  7. Nocardia cyriacigeorgica is recognized as one of the most prevalent etiological agents of human nocardiosis. Human exposure to these Actinobacteria stems from direct contact with contaminated environmental matric...

    Authors: Anthony Zoropogui, Petar Pujic, Philippe Normand, Valérie Barbe, Patrick Belli, Arnault Graindorge, David Roche, David Vallenet, Sophie Mangenot, Patrick Boiron, Véronica Rodriguez-Nava, Sebastien Ribun, Yves Richard, Benoit Cournoyer and Didier Blaha
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:286
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  8. The saprophytic pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has to cope with a variety of acidic habitats during its life cycle. The impact of low-temperature coupled with pH decrease for global gene expression and subsequen...

    Authors: Klaus Neuhaus, Peter Satorhelyi, Kristina Schauer, Siegfried Scherer and Thilo M Fuchs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:285
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  9. Eukaryotic chromatin architecture is affected by intrinsic histone-DNA sequence preferences, steric exclusion between nucleosome particles, formation of higher-order structures, and in vivo activity of chromatin ...

    Authors: George Locke, Devorah Haberman, Steven M Johnson and Alexandre V Morozov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:284
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  10. Butterflies are popular model organisms to study physiological mechanisms underlying variability in oogenesis and egg provisioning in response to environmental conditions. Nothing is known, however, about; the...

    Authors: Jean-Michel Carter, Simon C Baker, Ryan Pink, David RF Carter, Aiden Collins, Jeremie Tomlin, Melanie Gibbs and Casper J Breuker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:283
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  11. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in irreversible damage at the site of impact and initiates cellular and molecular processes that lead to secondary neural injury in the surrounding tissue. We used microarr...

    Authors: Todd E White, Gregory D Ford, Monique C Surles-Zeigler, Alicia S Gates, Michelle C LaPlaca and Byron D Ford
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:282
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  14. Cymbidium sinense belongs to the Orchidaceae, which is one of the most abundant angiosperm families. C. sinense, a high-grade traditional potted flower, is most prevalent in China and some Southeast Asian countri...

    Authors: Jianxia Zhang, Kunlin Wu, Songjun Zeng, Jaime A Teixeira da Silva, Xiaolan Zhao, Chang-En Tian, Haoqiang Xia and Jun Duan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:279
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  16. Dense consensus genetic maps based on high-throughput genotyping platforms are valuable for making genetic gains in Brassica napus through quantitative trait locus identification, efficient predictive molecular b...

    Authors: Harsh Raman, Rosy Raman, Andrzej Kilian, Frank Detering, Yan Long, David Edwards, Isobel AP Parkin, Andrew G Sharpe, Matthew N Nelson, Nick Larkan, Jun Zou, Jinling Meng, M Naveed Aslam, Jacqueline Batley, Wallace A Cowling and Derek Lydiate
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:277
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  17. Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is a common skeletal disorder in broiler chickens. It is characterized by the presence of a non-vascularized and unmineralized cartilage in the growth plate. Previous studies have ...

    Authors: Wen-xia Tian, Jia-kui Li, Ping Qin, Rui Wang, Guan-bao Ning, Jian-gang Qiao, Hong-quan Li, Ding-ren Bi, Si-yi Pan and Ding-zong Guo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:276
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  18. Chronic Allograft Nephropathy (CAN) is a clinical entity of progressive kidney transplant injury. The defining histology is tubular atrophy with interstitial fibrosis (IFTA). Using a meta-analysis of microarra...

    Authors: Amrita Dosanjh, Elizabeth Robison, Tony Mondala, Steven R Head, Daniel R Salomon and Sunil M Kurian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:275
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Readers are alerted that there is currently a discussion regarding the use of some of the unpublished genomic data presented in this manuscript. Appropriate editorial action will be taken once ...

    Authors: Zhongtao Zhao, Huiquan Liu, Chenfang Wang and Jin-Rong Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:274
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2014 15:6

  20. Y chromosomes are responsible for the initiation of male development, male fertility, and other male-related functions in diverse species. However, Y genes are rarely characterized outside a few model species ...

    Authors: Andrew Brantley Hall, Yumin Qi, Vladimir Timoshevskiy, Maria V Sharakhova, Igor V Sharakhov and Zhijian Tu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:273
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  21. The ability to genetically manipulate bacteria has been fundamentally important for both basic biological discovery and translational research to develop new vaccines and antibiotics. Experimental alteration o...

    Authors: Sebastián Aguilar Pierlé, Gena Kenitra Hammac, Guy H Palmer and Kelly A Brayton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:272
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  22. Some Pseudomonas strains function as predominant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). Within this group, Pseudomonas chlororaphis and Pseudomonas fluorescens are non-pathogenic biocontrol agents, and some...

    Authors: Xuemei Shen, Hongbo Hu, Huasong Peng, Wei Wang and Xuehong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:271
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Wheat yellow (stripe) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST) is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat worldwide. To design effective breeding strategies that maximize the potential for d...

    Authors: Dario Cantu, Vanesa Segovia, Daniel MacLean, Rosemary Bayles, Xianming Chen, Sophien Kamoun, Jorge Dubcovsky, Diane GO Saunders and Cristobal Uauy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:270
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  26. The ability of the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum to invade, colonise and multiply within diverse host environments, as well as to manifest its virulence within the human host, are activities tight...

    Authors: Karen Russell, Sandra Hasenkamp, Richard Emes and Paul Horrocks
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:267
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  27. Nematostella vectensis, a burrowing sea anemone, has become a popular species for the study of cnidarian development. In previous studies, the expression of a variety of genes has been characterized during N. vec...

    Authors: Rebecca Rae Helm, Stefan Siebert, Sarah Tulin, Joel Smith and Casey William Dunn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:266
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  28. miRNA profiling performed in myogenic cells and biopsies from skeletal muscles has previously identified miRNAs involved in myogenesis.

    Authors: Petr Dmitriev, Ana Barat, Anna Polesskaya, Mary J O’Connell, Thomas Robert, Philippe Dessen, Thomas A Walsh, Vladimir Lazar, Ahmed Turki, Gilles Carnac, Dalila Laoudj-Chenivesse, Marc Lipinski and Yegor S Vassetzky
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:265
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  29. Validation of physiologic miRNA targets has been met with significant challenges. We employed HITS-CLIP to identify which miRNAs participate in liver regeneration, and to identify their target mRNAs.

    Authors: Jonathan Schug, Lindsay B McKenna, Gabriel Walton, Nicholas Hand, Sarmistha Mukherjee, Kow Essuman, Zhongjie Shi, Yan Gao, Karen Markley, Momo Nakagawa, Vasumathi Kameswaran, Anastassios Vourekas, Joshua R Friedman, Klaus H Kaestner and Linda E Greenbaum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:264
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  30. The Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) is an indigenous conifer species in northern China but is relatively underdeveloped as a genomic resource; thus, limiting gene discovery and breeding. Large-scale transcripto...

    Authors: Shi-Hui Niu, Zhe-Xin Li, Hu-Wei Yuan, Xiao-Yang Chen, Yue Li and Wei Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:263
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  31. Copy number variants contribute to genetic variation in birds. Analyses of copy number variants in chicken breeds had focused primarily on those from commercial varieties with nothing known about the occurrenc...

    Authors: Ming Tian, Yanqiang Wang, Xiaorong Gu, Chungang Feng, Suyun Fang, Xiaoxiang Hu and Ning Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:262
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  32. There is increasing evidence of the importance of copy number variants (CNV) in genetic diversity among individuals and populations, as well as in some common genetic diseases. We previously characterized a co...

    Authors: Laia Bassaganyas, Eva Riveira-Muñoz, Manel García-Aragonés, Juan R González, Mario Cáceres, Lluís Armengol and Xavier Estivill
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:261
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  33. After publication of this article (Fernandez et al., BMC Genomics 2011, 12:604) it was brought to the Editors’ attention that the data generated by the first author, Ariel Fernandez, seemed anomalous. One of the ...

    Authors: Maria K Kowalczuk, Shreeya Nanda and Elizabeth C Moylan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:260
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2011 12:604

  34. Environmental temperature directly affects the concentrations of chemicals in the gas phase. Therefore, if the olfactory system does not physiologically adapt to environmental conditions, it may provide inadeq...

    Authors: Jacob Riveron, Tamara Boto and Esther Alcorta
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:259
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  35. Overexpression of the Cut homeobox 1 gene, CUX1, inverselycorrelates with patient survival in breast cancers. Cell-based assays andmolecular studies have revealed that transcriptional regulation byCUX1 involves m...

    Authors: Charles Vadnais, Arif A Awan, Ryoko Harada, Pier-Luc Clermont, Lam Leduy, Ginette Bérubé and Alain Nepveu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:258
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  36. Paired-tag sequencing approaches are commonly used for the analysis of genome structure. However, mammalian genomes have a complex organization with a variety of repetitive elements that complicate comprehensi...

    Authors: Sebastiaan van Heesch, Wigard P Kloosterman, Nico Lansu, Frans-Paul Ruzius, Elizabeth Levandowsky, Clarence C Lee, Shiguo Zhou, Steve Goldstein, David C Schwartz, Timothy T Harkins, Victor Guryev and Edwin Cuppen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:257
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  37. The transmission of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from the human to the mosquito is mediated by dormant sexual precursor cells, the gametocytes, which become activated in the mosquito midgut. Because...

    Authors: Che Julius Ngwa, Matthias Scheuermayer, Gunnar Rudolf Mair, Selina Kern, Thomas Brügl, Christine Clara Wirth, Makoah Nigel Aminake, Jochen Wiesner, Rainer Fischer, Andreas Vilcinskas and Gabriele Pradel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:256
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  38. Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria are a major cause of biomaterial-associated infections in modern medicine. Yet there is little known about the host responses against this normally innocent bacterium in the co...

    Authors: Wouter J Veneman, Oliver W Stockhammer, Leonie de Boer, Sebastian A J Zaat, Annemarie H Meijer and Herman P Spaink
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:255
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  40. Targeted capture, combined with massively-parallel sequencing, is a powerful technique that allows investigation of specific portions of the genome for less cost than whole genome sequencing. Several methods h...

    Authors: Jamie K Teer, Jennifer J Johnston, Sarah L Anzick, Marbin Pineda, Gary Stone, Paul S Meltzer, James C Mullikin and Leslie G Biesecker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:253
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  41. During host specialization, inactivation of genes whose function is no more required is favored by changes in selective constraints and evolutionary bottlenecks. The Gram positive bacteria Streptococcus agalactia...

    Authors: Isabelle Rosinski-Chupin, Elisabeth Sauvage, Barbara Mairey, Sophie Mangenot, Laurence Ma, Violette Da Cunha, Christophe Rusniok, Christiane Bouchier, Valérie Barbe and Philippe Glaser
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:252
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  42. Efficient mechanisms for rejoining of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are vital because misrepair of such lesions leads to mutation, aneuploidy and loss of cell viability. DSB repair is mediated by proteins ac...

    Authors: Jennifer Summers McKinney, Sunaina Sethi, Jennifer DeMars Tripp, Thuy N Nguyen, Brian A Sanderson, James W Westmoreland, Michael A Resnick and L Kevin Lewis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:251
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  43. The Brassica B genome is known to carry several important traits, yet there has been limited analyses of its underlying genome structure, especially in comparison to the closely related A and C genomes. A bacteri...

    Authors: Zahra-Katy Navabi, Terry Huebert, Andrew G Sharpe, Carmel M O’Neill, Ian Bancroft and Isobel AP Parkin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:250
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  44. Sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins, with their paramount importance in the regulation of expression of the genetic material, are encoded by approximately 5% of the genes in an animal’s genome. But it is un...

    Authors: Hannah L Craig, Julia Wirtz, Sophie Bamps, Colin T Dolphin and Ian A Hope
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:249
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  45. Senescence-accelerated mice (SAM) are a series of mouse strains originally derived from unexpected crosses between AKR/J and unknown mice, from which phenotypically distinct senescence-prone (SAMP) and -resist...

    Authors: Kumpei Tanisawa, Eri Mikami, Noriyuki Fuku, Yoko Honda, Shuji Honda, Ikuro Ohsawa, Masafumi Ito, Shogo Endo, Kunio Ihara, Kinji Ohno, Yuki Kishimoto, Akihito Ishigami, Naoki Maruyama, Motoji Sawabe, Hiroyoshi Iseki, Yasushi Okazaki…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:248
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  46. Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) disease is caused by endogenous, phloem-restricted, Gram negative, uncultured bacteria named Candidatus Liberibacter africanus (CaLaf), Ca. L. asiaticus (CaLas), and Ca. L. americanus (...

    Authors: Valéria Mafra, Polyana K Martins, Carolina S Francisco, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Juliana Freitas-Astúa and Marcos A Machado
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:247
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  47. Recent studies had found thousands of natural antisense transcripts originating from the same genomic loci of protein coding genes but from the opposite strand. It is unclear whether the majority of antisense ...

    Authors: Maurice HT Ling, Yuguang Ban, Hongxiu Wen, San Ming Wang and Steven X Ge
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:243
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  48. Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer is one of the most widely used medicinal plants. Complete genome information for this species remains unavailable due to its large genome size. At present, analysis of expressed sequence...

    Authors: Chunfang Li, Yingjie Zhu, Xu Guo, Chao Sun, Hongmei Luo, Jingyuan Song, Ying Li, Lizhi Wang, Jun Qian and Shilin Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:245
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  49. The Setaria genus is increasingly of interest to researchers, as its two species, S. viridis and S. italica, are being developed as models for understanding C4 photosynthesis and plant functional genomics. The ge...

    Authors: Meicheng Zhao, Hui Zhi, Andrew N Doust, Wei Li, Yongfang Wang, Haiquan Li, Guanqing Jia, Yongqiang Wang, Ning Zhang and Xianmin Diao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:244
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  50. Streptococcus pneumoniae causes over one million deaths worldwide annually, despite recent developments in vaccine and antibiotic therapy. Host susceptibility to pneumococcal infection and disease is controlled b...

    Authors: Laura Wisby, Vitor E Fernandes, Daniel R Neill, Aras Kadioglu, Peter W Andrew and Paul Denny
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:242
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