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  1. A RIL population between Solanum lycopersicum cv. Moneymaker and S. pimpinellifolium G1.1554 was genotyped with a custom made SNP array. Additionally, a subset of the lines was genotyped by sequencing (GBS).

    Authors: Marcela Víquez-Zamora, Myluska Caro, Richard Finkers, Yury Tikunov, Arnaud Bovy, Richard GF Visser, Yuling Bai and Sjaak van Heusden
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:1152
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  2. The subtelomeric regions of human chromosomes exhibit an extraordinary plasticity. To date, due to the high GC content and to the presence of telomeric repeats, the subtelomeric sequences are underrepresented ...

    Authors: Valerio Costa, Amelia Casamassimi, Roberta Roberto, Fernando Gianfrancesco, Maria R Matarazzo, Michele D'Urso, Maurizio D'Esposito, Mariano Rocchi and Alfredo Ciccodicola
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:250
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  3. The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the second most farmed fish species worldwide. It is also an important model for studies of fish physiology, particularly because of its broad tolerance to an array of ...

    Authors: Richard Guyon, Michaelle Rakotomanga, Naoual Azzouzi, Jean Pierre Coutanceau, Celine Bonillo, Helena D’Cotta, Elodie Pepey, Lucile Soler, Marguerite Rodier-Goud, Angelique D’Hont, Matthew A Conte, Nikkie EM van Bers, David J Penman, Christophe Hitte, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Thomas D Kocher…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:222
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  4. The rise and fall of the Y chromosome was demonstrated in animals but plants often possess the large evolutionarily young Y chromosome that is thought has expanded recently. Break-even points dividing expansio...

    Authors: Janka Puterova, Zdenek Kubat, Eduard Kejnovsky, Wojciech Jesionek, Jana Cizkova, Boris Vyskot and Roman Hobza
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:153
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  5. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the most popular cereal crops globally. Although it is a diploid species, (2n = 2x = 14) the study of its genome organization is necessary in the framework of plant breeding sin...

    Authors: I. M. Serrano-León, P. Prieto and M. Aguilar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:642
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2023 24:694

  6. Emerging infectious disease-causing RNA viruses, such as the SARS-CoV-2 and Ebola viruses, are thought to rely on bats as natural reservoir hosts. Since these zoonotic viruses pose a great threat to humans, it...

    Authors: Yuki Iwasaki, Toshimichi Ikemura, Kennosuke Wada, Yoshiko Wada and Takashi Abe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:497
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  7. Upland cotton (G. hirsutum L.) is the leading fiber crop worldwide. Genetic improvement of fiber quality and yield is facilitated by a variety of genomics tools. An integrated genetic and physical map is needed t...

    Authors: Zhanyou Xu, Russell J Kohel, Guoli Song, Jaemin Cho, Jing Yu, Shuxun Yu, Jeffrey Tomkins and John Z Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:108
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  8. The unambiguous identification of individual chromosomes is a key part of the genomic characterization of any species. In this respect, the development and application of chromosome banding techniques has revo...

    Authors: Helal A. Ansari, Nicholas W. Ellison, Shalome A. Bassett, Syed W. Hussain, Gregory T. Bryan and Warren M. Williams
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:977
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  9. Solea senegalensis (Kaup, 1858) is a commercially important flatfish species, belonging to the Pleuronectiformes order. The taxonomy of this group has long been controversial, and the karyotype of the order prese...

    Authors: Aglaya García-Angulo, Manuel A. Merlo, Silvia Portela-Bens, María E. Rodríguez, Emilio García, Ahmed Al-Rikabi, Thomas Liehr and Laureana Rebordinos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:818
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  10. Chromosomal inversions have been pervasive during the evolution of the genus Drosophila, but there is significant variation between lineages in the rate of rearrangement fixation. D. mojavensis, an ecological spe...

    Authors: Yolanda Guillén and Alfredo Ruiz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:53
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  11. The accurate and high resolution mapping of DNA copy number aberrations has become an important tool by which to gain insight into the mechanisms of tumourigenesis. There are various commercially available pla...

    Authors: Christina Curtis, Andy G Lynch, Mark J Dunning, Inmaculada Spiteri, John C Marioni, James Hadfield, Suet-Feung Chin, James D Brenton, Simon Tavaré and Carlos Caldas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:588
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  12. The lager brewing yeast, S. pastorianus, is a hybrid between S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus with extensive chromosome aneuploidy. S. pastorianus is subdivided into Group 1 and Group 2 strains, where Group 2 strai...

    Authors: Alex N. Salazar, Arthur R. Gorter de Vries, Marcel van den Broek, Nick Brouwers, Pilar de la Torre Cortès, Niels G. A. Kuijpers, Jean-Marc G. Daran and Thomas Abeel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:916
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  13. LTR Retrotransposons transpose through reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate and are ubiquitous components of all eukaryotic genomes thus far examined. Plant genomes, in particular, have been found to b...

    Authors: Lizhi Gao, Eugene M McCarthy, Eric W Ganko and John F McDonald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2004 5:18
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  14. Var genes encode a family of virulence factors known as PfEMP1 (Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1) which are responsible for both antigenic variation and cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes....

    Authors: Susan M Kraemer, Sue A Kyes, Gautam Aggarwal, Amy L Springer, Siri O Nelson, Zoe Christodoulou, Leia M Smith, Wendy Wang, Emily Levin, Christopher I Newbold, Peter J Myler and Joseph D Smith
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:45
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  15. Poa annua (annual bluegrass) is an allotetraploid turfgrass, an agronomically significant weed, and one of the most widely dispersed plant species on earth. Here, we report the chromosome-scale genome assemblies ...

    Authors: Christopher W. Benson, Matthew R. Sheltra, Peter J. Maughan, Eric N. Jellen, Matthew D. Robbins, B. Shaun Bushman, Eric L. Patterson, Nathan D. Hall and David R. Huff
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:350
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2023 24:404

  18. A prominent and distinctive feature of the rye (Secale cereale) chromosomes is the presence of massive blocks of subtelomeric heterochromatin, the size of which is correlated with the copy number of tandem arrays...

    Authors: E. V. Evtushenko, V. G. Levitsky, E. A. Elisafenko, K. V. Gunbin, A. I. Belousov, J. Šafář, J. Doležel and A. V. Vershinin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:337
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  19. The subtelomeres of many protozoa are highly enriched in genes with roles in niche adaptation. T. cruzi trypomastigotes express surface proteins from Trans-Sialidase (TS) and Dispersed Gene Family-1 (DGF-1) super...

    Authors: Roberto R Moraes Barros, Marjorie M Marini, Cristiane Regina Antônio, Danielle R Cortez, Andrea M Miyake, Fábio M Lima, Jeronimo C Ruiz, Daniella C Bartholomeu, Miguel A Chiurillo, José Luis Ramirez and José Franco da Silveira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:229
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  20. Genomic studies in non-domestic avian models, such as the California condor and white-throated sparrow, can lead to more comprehensive conservation plans and provide clues for understanding mechanisms affectin...

    Authors: Michael N Romanov, Elaina M Tuttle, Marlys L Houck, William S Modi, Leona G Chemnick, Marisa L Korody, Emily M Stremel Mork, Christie A Otten, Tanya Renner, Kenneth C Jones, Sugandha Dandekar, Jeanette C Papp, Yang Da, Eric D Green, Vincent Magrini, Matthew T Hickenbotham…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10(Suppl 2):S10
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

  21. Microsatellite markers are one of the most informative and versatile DNA-based markers used in plant genetic research, but their development has traditionally been difficult and costly. The whole genome sequen...

    Authors: Huayu Zhu, Pengyao Song, Dal-Hoe Koo, Luqin Guo, Yanman Li, Shouru Sun, Yiqun Weng and Luming Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:557
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  23. The availability of the complete chicken (Gallus gallus) genome sequence as well as a large number of chicken probes for fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) and microarray resources facilitate comparative ge...

    Authors: Benjamin M Skinner, Lindsay BW Robertson, Helen G Tempest, Elizabeth J Langley, Dimitris Ioannou, Katie E Fowler, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Anthony D Hall, Darren K Griffin and Martin Völker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:357
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  24. By comparing the quail genome with that of chicken, chromosome rearrangements that have occurred in these two galliform species over 35 million years of evolution can be detected. From a more practical point o...

    Authors: Boniface B Kayang, Valérie Fillon, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Mitsuru Miwa, Sophie Leroux, Katia Fève, Jean-Louis Monvoisin, Frédérique Pitel, Matthieu Vignoles, Céline Mouilhayrat, Catherine Beaumont, Shin'ichi Ito, Francis Minvielle and Alain Vignal
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:101
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  25. Prader-Willi and Angelman syndrome (PWS and AS) patients typically have an ~5 Mb deletion of human chromosome 15q11-q13, of opposite parental origin. A mouse model of PWS and AS has a transgenic insertion-dele...

    Authors: Mihaela Stefan, Kathryn C Claiborn, Edyta Stasiek, Jing-Hua Chai, Tohru Ohta, Richard Longnecker, John M Greally and Robert D Nicholls
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2005 6:157
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  26. High density linkage maps are essential for comparative analysis of synteny, fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL), searching for candidate genes and facilitating genome sequence assembly. However, in ...

    Authors: Chun Ming Wang, Zhi Yi Bai, Xiao Ping He, Grace Lin, Jun Hong Xia, Fei Sun, Loong Chueng Lo, Felicia Feng, Ze Yuan Zhu and Gen Hua Yue
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:174
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  28. Papaya is a major fruit crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide and has primitive sex chromosomes controlling sex determination in this trioecious species. The papaya genome was recently sequenced b...

    Authors: Qingyi Yu, Eric Tong, Rachel L Skelton, John E Bowers, Meghan R Jones, Jan E Murray, Shaobin Hou, Peizhu Guan, Ricelle A Acob, Ming-Cheng Luo, Paul H Moore, Maqsudul Alam, Andrew H Paterson and Ray Ming
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:371
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  29. Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are causative agents of a diverse spectrum of human diseases collectively known as leishmaniasis. These eukaryotic pathogens that diverged early from the main eukaryoti...

    Authors: Jose M Requena, Cristina Folgueira, Manuel C López and M Carmen Thomas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:263
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  30. The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, is the most important pest in the olive fruit agribusiness industry. This is because female flies lay their eggs in the unripe fruits and upon hatching the larvae feed on th...

    Authors: Anthony Bayega, Haig Djambazian, Konstantina T. Tsoumani, Maria-Eleni Gregoriou, Efthimia Sagri, Eleni Drosopoulou, Penelope Mavragani-Tsipidou, Kristina Giorda, George Tsiamis, Kostas Bourtzis, Spyridon Oikonomopoulos, Ken Dewar, Deanna M. Church, Alexie Papanicolaou, Kostas D. Mathiopoulos and Jiannis Ragoussis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:259
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  31. Genetic and functional genomics studies require a high-quality genome assembly. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), an important horticultural crop, is an ideal model species for the study of fruit development.

    Authors: Xiao Su, Baoan Wang, Xiaolin Geng, Yuefan Du, Qinqin Yang, Bin Liang, Ge Meng, Qiang Gao, Wencai Yang, Yingfang Zhu and Tao Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:898
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  32. Species of the Festuca and Lolium genera, as well as intergeneric Festuca × Lolium (Festulolium) hybrids, are valuable fodder and turf grasses for agricultural and amenity purposes worldwide. Festulolium hybrids ...

    Authors: Joanna Majka, Katarzyna Bzdęga, Agnieszka Janiak, Hanna Ćwiek-Kupczyńska, Paweł Krajewski, Tomasz Książczyk and Zbigniew Zwierzykowski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:367
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  33. Earlier comparative maps between the genomes of rice (Oryza sativa L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were linkage maps based on cDNA-RFLP markers. The low number of polymorphic RFL...

    Authors: Mauricio La Rota, Ramesh V Kantety, Ju-Kyung Yu and Mark E Sorrells
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2005 6:23
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  34. The genomic region that lies between the telomere and chromosome body, termed the subtelomere, is heterochromatic, repeat-rich, and frequently undergoes rearrangement. Within this region, large-scale structura...

    Authors: T Brann, A Beltramini, C Chaparro, M Berriman, SR Doyle and AV Protasio
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:217
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  35. Chickpea is prone to many abiotic stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, etc. which cause severe loss in yield. Tolerance towards these stresses is quantitative in nature and many studies have been done to ...

    Authors: Sourav Panigrahi, Upendra Kumar, Sonu Swami, Yogita Singh, Priyanka Balyan, Krishna Pal singh, Om Parkash Dhankher, Rajeev K Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Khaled MA Amiri and Reyazul Rouf Mir
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:439
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  36. The lower Dipteran fungus fly, Sciara coprophila, has many unique biological features that challenge the rule of genome DNA constancy. For example, Sciara undergoes paternal chromosome elimination and maternal X ...

    Authors: John M. Urban, Michael S. Foulk, Jacob E. Bliss, C. Michelle Coleman, Nanyan Lu, Reza Mazloom, Susan J. Brown, Allan C. Spradling and Susan A. Gerbi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:643
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  37. The cattle MHC is termed the bovine leukocyte antigen (BoLA) and, along with the MHCs of other ruminants, is unique in its genomic organization. Consequently, correct and reliable gene maps and sequence inform...

    Authors: Candice L Brinkmeyer-Langford, Christopher P Childers, Krista L Fritz, Ashley L Gustafson-Seabury, Marian Cothran, Terje Raudsepp, James E Womack and Loren C Skow
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:182
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  38. Closely spaced long inverted repeats, also known as DNA palindromes, can undergo intrastrand annealing to form DNA hairpins. The ability to form these hairpins results in genome instability, difficulties in ma...

    Authors: Hui Yang, Natalia Volfovsky, Alison Rattray, Xiongfong Chen, Hisashi Tanaka and Jeffrey Strathern
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:394
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  39. In low-copy-number plasmids, the partitioning loci (par) act to ensure proper plasmid segregation and copy number maintenance in the daughter cells. In many bacterial species, par gene homologues are encoded on t...

    Authors: Haijuan Li, Angel Angelov, Vu Thuy Trang Pham, Benedikt Leis and Wolfgang Liebl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:317
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  40. Recently, several high-resolution methods of chromosome analysis have been developed. It is important to compare these methods and to select reliable combinations of techniques to analyze complex chromosomal r...

    Authors: Eva Darai-Ramqvist, Teresita Diaz de Ståhl, Agneta Sandlund, Kiran Mantripragada, George Klein, Jan Dumanski, Stefan Imreh and Maria Kost-Alimova
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:330
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  41. Sex chromosomes change more frequently in fish than in mammals or birds. However, certain chromosomes or genes are repeatedly used as sex determinants in different members of the teleostean lineage. East Afric...

    Authors: Astrid Böhne, Catherine A. Wilson, John H. Postlethwait and Walter Salzburger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:883
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  43. High density genetic maps of plants have, nearly without exception, made use of marker datasets containing missing or questionable genotype calls derived from a variety of genic and non-genic or anonymous mark...

    Authors: Timothy J Close, Prasanna R Bhat, Stefano Lonardi, Yonghui Wu, Nils Rostoks, Luke Ramsay, Arnis Druka, Nils Stein, Jan T Svensson, Steve Wanamaker, Serdar Bozdag, Mikeal L Roose, Matthew J Moscou, Shiaoman Chao, Rajeev K Varshney, Péter Szűcs…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:582
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  44. Owing to the low cost of the high throughput Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, more and more species have been and will be sequenced. However, de novo assemblies of large eukaryotic genomes thus produc...

    Authors: Man Rao, Mireille Morisson, Thomas Faraut, Suzanne Bardes, Katia Fève, Emmanuelle Labarthe, Valérie Fillon, Yinhua Huang, Ning Li and Alain Vignal
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:513
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  48. Although the Illumina 1 G Genome Analyzer generates billions of base pairs of sequence data, challenges arise in sequence selection due to the varying sequence quality. Therefore, in the framework of the Inter...

    Authors: Andreia J Amaral, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Hindrik HD Kerstens, Henri CM Heuven, Bert Dibbits, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Johan T den Dunnen and Martien AM Groenen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:374
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  49. The program RepeatMasker and the database Repbase-ISB are part of the most widely used strategy for annotating repeats in animal genomes. They have been used to show that avian genomes have a lower repeat cont...

    Authors: Sébastien Guizard, Benoît Piégu, Peter Arensburger, Florian Guillou and Yves Bigot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:659
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  50. Zoysia matrella, widely used in lawns and sports fields, is of great economic and ecological value. Z. matrella is an allotetraploid species (2n = 4x = 40) in the genus zoysia under th...

    Authors: Xiaoen Huang, Fangfang Wang, Ratnesh Singh, James A. Reinert, M. C. Engelke, Anthony D. Genovesi, Ambika Chandra and Qingyi Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:562
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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