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  1. Duplicated gene pairs produced by ancient polyploidy maintain high sequence similarity over a long period of time and may result from illegitimate recombination between homeologous chromosomes. The genomes of ...

    Authors: Chendan Wei, Zhenyi Wang, Jianyu Wang, Jia Teng, Shaoqi Shen, Qimeng Xiao, Shoutong Bao, Yishan Feng, Yan Zhang, Yuxian Li, Sangrong Sun, Yuanshuai Yue, Chunyang Wu, Yanli Wang, Tianning Zhou, Wenbo Xu…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:460
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  2. Solid tumors present a panoply of genomic alterations, from single base changes to the gain or loss of entire chromosomes. Although aberrations at the two extremes of this spectrum are readily defined, compreh...

    Authors: Mohana Ray, Steve Goldstein, Shiguo Zhou, Konstantinos Potamousis, Deepayan Sarkar, Michael A Newton, Elizabeth Esterberg, Christina Kendziorski, Oliver Bogler and David C Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:505
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  3. Genetic improvement of pearl millet is lagging behind most of the major crops. Development of genomic resources is expected to expedite breeding for improved agronomic traits, stress tolerance, yield, and nutr...

    Authors: Ghislain Kanfany, Desalegn D. Serba, Davina Rhodes, Paul St. Amand, Amy Bernardo, Prakash I Gangashetty, Ndjido Ardo Kane and Guihua Bai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:469
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  4. Drosophila subobscura has long been a central model in evolutionary genetics. Presently, its use is hindered by the lack of a reference genome. To bridge this gap, here we used PacBio long-read technology, togeth...

    Authors: Charikleia Karageorgiou, Víctor Gámez-Visairas, Rosa Tarrío and Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:223
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  5. The large and complex genome of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L., ~17 Gb) requires high resolution genome maps with saturated marker scaffolds to anchor and orient BAC contigs/ sequence scaffolds for whole genom...

    Authors: Ajay Kumar, Raed Seetan, Mohamed Mergoum, Vijay K. Tiwari, Muhammad J. Iqbal, Yi Wang, Omar Al-Azzam, Hana Šimková, Ming-Cheng Luo, Jan Dvorak, Yong Q. Gu, Anne Denton, Andrzej Kilian, Gerard R. Lazo and Shahryar F. Kianian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:800
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  6. Golden Promise is a salt-tolerant spring barley closely related to Maythorpe. Salt tolerance in Golden Promise has been attributed to a single mutation at the Ari-e locus (on 5H) resulting from irradiation of May...

    Authors: Harkamal Walia, Clyde Wilson, Pascal Condamine, Abdelbagi M Ismail, Jin Xu, Xinping Cui and Timothy J Close
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:87
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  7. The protozoan pathogens Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi (the Tritryps) are parasites that produce devastating human diseases. These organisms show very unusual mechanisms of gene expres...

    Authors: Norma E Padilla-Mejía, Luis E Florencio-Martínez, Elisa E Figueroa-Angulo, Rebeca G Manning-Cela, Rosaura Hernández-Rivas, Peter J Myler and Santiago Martínez-Calvillo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:232
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  8. The soil dwelling saprotrophic non-pathogenic fungus Fusarium venenatum, routinely used in the commercial fermentation industry, is phylogenetically closely related to the globally important cereal and non-cereal...

    Authors: Robert King, Neil Andrew Brown, Martin Urban and Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:269
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  10. Ovine footrot caused by Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is a contagious disease with serious economic and welfare impacts in sheep production systems worldwide. A better understanding of the host genetic archi...

    Authors: Daniel Gaspar, Catarina Ginja, Nuno Carolino, Célia Leão, Helena Monteiro, Lino Tábuas, Sandra Branco, Ludovina Padre, Pedro Caetano, Ricardo Romão, Claudino Matos, António Marcos Ramos, Elisa Bettencourt and Ana Usié
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:100
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  11. The primate Y chromosome is distinguished by a lack of inter-chromosomal recombination along most of its length, extensive gene loss, and a prevalence of repetitive elements. A group of genes on the male-speci...

    Authors: Ana-Hermina Ghenu, Benjamin M. Bolker, Don J. Melnick and Ben J. Evans
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:157
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  12. Rapid acquisition of accurate genotyping information is essential for all genetic marker-based studies. For species with relatively small genomes, complete genome resequencing is a feasible approach for genoty...

    Authors: Daryl T Morishige, Patricia E Klein, Josie L Hilley, Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian, Arun Sharma and John E Mullet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:448
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  13. The 156 breeds of dog recognized by the American Kennel Club offer a unique opportunity to map genes important in genetic variation. Each breed features a defining constellation of morphological and behavioral...

    Authors: Matthew Breen, Christophe Hitte, Travis D Lorentzen, Rachael Thomas, Edouard Cadieu, Leah Sabacan, Allyson Scott, Gwenaelle Evanno, Heidi G Parker, Ewen F Kirkness, Ruth Hudson, Richard Guyon, Gregory G Mahairas, Boris Gelfenbeyn, Claire M Fraser, Catherine André…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2004 5:65
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  15. Aegilops tauschii is the donor of the bread wheat D genome. Based on spike morphology, the taxon has conventionally been subdivided into ssp. tauschii and ssp. strangulata. The present study ...

    Authors: Laibin Zhao, Shunzong Ning, Yingjin Yi, Lianquan Zhang, Zhongwei Yuan, Jirui Wang, Youliang Zheng, Ming Hao and Dengcai Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:3
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  16. Numerous different types of variations can occur in DNA and have diverse effects and consequences. The Variation Ontology (VariO) was developed for systematic descriptions of variations and their effects at DN...

    Authors: Mauno Vihinen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:974
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. High resolution radiation hybrid (RH) maps can facilitate genome sequence assembly by correctly ordering genes and genetic markers along chromosomes. The objective of the present study was to generate high res...

    Authors: Aparna Prasad, Thomas Schiex, Stephanie McKay, Brenda Murdoch, Zhiquan Wang, James E Womack, Paul Stothard and Stephen S Moore
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:310
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  19. Satellite DNA is a rapidly diverging, largely repetitive DNA component of many eukaryotic genomes. Here we analyse the evolutionary dynamics of a satellite DNA repeat in the genomes of a group of Asian subtrop...

    Authors: Yung-I Lee, Jing Wei Yap, Shairul Izan, Ilia J. Leitch, Michael F. Fay, Yi-Ching Lee, Oriane Hidalgo, Steven Dodsworth, Marinus J. M. Smulders, Barbara Gravendeel and Andrew R. Leitch
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:578
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  20. Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of sex determination and dosage compensation mechanisms in model organisms such as C. elegans, Drosophila and M. musculus. Strikingly, the mechanism involv...

    Authors: Shaobing O Zhang, Sachin Mathur, Gaye Hattem, Olivier Tassy and Olivier Pourquié
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:13
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  21. MHC class I antigens are encoded by a rapidly evolving gene family comprising classical and non-classical genes that are found in all vertebrates and involved in diverse immune functions. However, there is a f...

    Authors: Hannah V Siddle, Janine E Deakin, Penny Coggill, Elizabeth Hart, Yuanyuan Cheng, Emily SW Wong, Jennifer Harrow, Stephan Beck and Katherine Belov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:310
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  23. Understanding syntentic relationship between two species is critical to assessing the potential for comparative genomic analysis. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.), the two most imp...

    Authors: Phillip E McClean, Sujan Mamidi, Melody McConnell, Shireen Chikara and Rian Lee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:184
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  25. With the completion of the genome sequence for rice (Oryza sativa L.), the focus of rice genomics research has shifted to the comparison of the rice genome with genomes of other species for gene cloning, breeding...

    Authors: Barbara L Hass-Jacobus, Montona Futrell-Griggs, Brian Abernathy, Rick Westerman, Jose-Luis Goicoechea, Joshua Stein, Patricia Klein, Bonnie Hurwitz, Bin Zhou, Fariborz Rakhshan, Abhijit Sanyal, Navdeep Gill, Jer-Young Lin, Jason G Walling, Mei Zhong Luo, Jetty Siva S Ammiraju…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:199
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  26. The recently constructed river buffalo whole-genome radiation hybrid panel (BBURH5000) has already been used to generate preliminary radiation hybrid (RH) maps for several chromosomes, and buffalo-bovine comparat...

    Authors: M Elisabete J Amaral, Jason R Grant, Penny K Riggs, Nedenia B Stafuzza, Edson A Rodrigues Filho, Tom Goldammer, Rosemarie Weikard, Ronald M Brunner, Kelli J Kochan, Anthony J Greco, Jooha Jeong, Zhipeng Cai, Guohui Lin, Aparna Prasad, Satish Kumar, G Pardha Saradhi…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:631
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  27. Chromothripsis is a recently discovered phenomenon of genomic rearrangement, possibly arising during a single genome-shattering event. This could provide an alternative paradigm in cancer development, replacin...

    Authors: Haoyang Cai, Nitin Kumar, Homayoun C Bagheri, Christian von Mering, Mark D Robinson and Michael Baudis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:82
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  28. Genomic regions of autozygosity (ROA) arise when an individual is homozygous for haplotypes inherited identical-by-descent from ancestors shared by both parents. Over the past decade, they have gained importan...

    Authors: Alexandra Blant, Michelle Kwong, Zachary A. Szpiech and Trevor J. Pemberton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:928
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  29. Currently most pastoral farmers rely on anthelmintic drenches to control gastrointestinal parasitic nematodes in sheep. Resistance to anthelmintics is rapidly increasing in nematode populations such that on so...

    Authors: Allan M Crawford, Korena A Paterson, Ken G Dodds, Cristina Diez Tascon, Penny A Williamson, Meredith Roberts Thomson, Stewart A Bisset, Anne E Beattie, Gordon J Greer, Richard S Green, Roger Wheeler, Richard J Shaw, Kevin Knowler and John C McEwan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:178
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  30. Rice feeds much of the world, and possesses the simplest genome analyzed to date within the grass family, making it an economically relevant model system for other cereal crops. Although the rice genome is seq...

    Authors: Shiguo Zhou, Michael C Bechner, Michael Place, Chris P Churas, Louise Pape, Sally A Leong, Rod Runnheim, Dan K Forrest, Steve Goldstein, Miron Livny and David C Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:278
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  31. Neoplasia can be driven by mutations resulting in dysregulation of transcription. In the mesenchymal neoplasm, aggressive fibromatosis, subtractive hybridization identified sterile alpha motif domain 9 (SAMD9) as...

    Authors: Catherine F Li, Jeffrey R MacDonald, Robert Y Wei, Jocelyn Ray, Kimberly Lau, Christopher Kandel, Rachel Koffman, Sherilyn Bell, Stephen W Scherer and Benjamin A Alman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:92
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  32. The sequencing of the cow genome was recently published (Btau_4.0 assembly). A second, alternate cow genome assembly (UMD2), based on the same raw sequence data, was also published. The two assemblies have bee...

    Authors: Giulia Partipilo, Pietro D'Addabbo, Giovanni M Lacalandra, George E Liu and Mariano Rocchi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:639
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  33. The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an important agricultural species and the second largest contributor to the world’s poultry meat production. Genetic improvement is attributed largely to selective breeding pro...

    Authors: Muhammad L Aslam, John WM Bastiaansen, Martin G Elferink, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Le Ann Blomberg, Robert C Fleischer, Curtis P Van Tassell, Tad S Sonstegard, Steven G Schroeder, Martien AM Groenen and Julie A Long
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:391
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  34. Breeding programs benefit from information about marker-trait associations for many traits, whether the goal is to place those traits under active selection or to maintain them through background selection. As...

    Authors: Teshale Assefa, Paul I. Otyama, Anne V. Brown, Scott R. Kalberer, Roshan S. Kulkarni and Steven B. Cannon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:527
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  35. Rust fungi are an important group of plant pathogens that cause devastating losses in agricultural, silvicultural and natural ecosystems. Plants can be protected from rust disease by resistance genes encoding ...

    Authors: Claire Anderson, Muhammad Adil Khan, Ann-Maree Catanzariti, Cameron A. Jack, Adnane Nemri, Gregory J. Lawrence, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Adrienne R. Hardham, Jeffrey G. Ellis, Peter N. Dodds and David A. Jones
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:667
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  36. Immortalized cell lines are widely used model systems whose genomes are often highly rearranged and polyploid. However, their genome structure is seldom deciphered and is thus not accounted for during analyses...

    Authors: Jacob Lewerentz, Anna-Mia Johansson, Jan Larsson and Per Stenberg
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:276
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  37. The termite-fungus symbiosis is an ancient stable mutualism of two partners that reproduce and disperse independently. With the founding of each termite colony the symbiotic association must be re-established ...

    Authors: Sabine M. E. Vreeburg, Ben Auxier, Bas Jacobs, Peter M. Bourke, Joost van den Heuvel, Bas J. Zwaan and Duur K. Aanen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:123
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  38. Genome variability generates phenotypic heterogeneity and is of relevance for adaptation to environmental change, but the extent of such variability in natural populations is still poorly understood. For examp...

    Authors: Laura Carreto, Maria F Eiriz, Ana C Gomes, Patrícia M Pereira, Dorit Schuller and Manuel AS Santos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:524
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  39. Efforts to improve sustainability in livestock production systems have focused on two objectives: investigating the genetic control of immune function as it pertains to robustness and disease resistance, and f...

    Authors: T. Maroilley, G. Lemonnier, J. Lecardonnel, D. Esquerré, Y. Ramayo-Caldas, M. J. Mercat, C. Rogel-Gaillard and J. Estellé
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:967
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  40. Chromosomal segmental copy number variation (CNV) has been recently recognized as a very important source of genetic variability. Some CNV loci involve genes or conserved regulatory elements. Compelling eviden...

    Authors: Xiaofei Wang, Samuel Nahashon, Tromondae K Feaster, Ann Bohannon-Stewart and Nathaniel Adefope
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:351
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  41. Most published genome sequences are drafts, and most are dominated by computational gene prediction. Draft genomes typically incorporate considerable sequence data that are not assigned to chromosomes, and pre...

    Authors: Sarah M. Pilkington, Ross Crowhurst, Elena Hilario, Simona Nardozza, Lena Fraser, Yongyan Peng, Kularajathevan Gunaseelan, Robert Simpson, Jibran Tahir, Simon C. Deroles, Kerry Templeton, Zhiwei Luo, Marcus Davy, Canhong Cheng, Mark McNeilage, Davide Scaglione…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:257
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  42. A protein may bind to its target DNA sites constitutively, i.e., regardless of cell type. Intuitively, constitutive binding sites should be biologically functional. A prerequisite for understanding their funct...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Li, David M Umbach and Leping Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:27
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  43. Among the Solanaceae plants, the pepper genome is three times larger than that of tomato. Although the gene repertoire and gene order of both species are well conserved, the cause of the genome-size difference is...

    Authors: Minkyu Park, SungHwan Jo, Jin-Kyung Kwon, Jongsun Park, Jong Hwa Ahn, Seungill Kim, Yong-Hwan Lee, Tae-Jin Yang, Cheol-Goo Hur, Byoung-Cheorl Kang, Byung-Dong Kim and Doil Choi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:85
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  44. The pregnancy-specific glycoprotein (Psg) genes encode proteins of unknown function, and are members of the carcinoembryonic antigen (Cea) gene family, which is a member of the immunoglobulin gene (Ig) superfamil...

    Authors: Andrew S McLellan, Beate Fischer, Gabriela Dveksler, Tomomi Hori, Freda Wynne, Melanie Ball, Katsuzumi Okumura, Tom Moore and Wolfgang Zimmermann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2005 6:4
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  46. Comparative mapping provides new insights into the evolutionary history of genomes. In particular, recent studies in mammals have suggested a role for segmental duplication in genome evolution. In some species...

    Authors: Laurent Schibler, Anne Roig, Marie-Françoise Mahe, Pascal Laurent, Hélène Hayes, François Rodolphe and Edmond P Cribiu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:194
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  47. The DA rat strain is particularly susceptible to the induction of a number of chronic inflammatory diseases, such as models for rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Here we sequenced the genomes of two...

    Authors: Liselotte Bäckdahl, Diana Ekman, Maja Jagodic, Tomas Olsson and Rikard Holmdahl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:391
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  48. The importance of transposable elements (TEs) in the genomic remodeling and chromosomal rearrangements that accompany lineage diversification in vertebrates remains the subject of debate. The major impediment ...

    Authors: J. Auvinet, P. Graça, L. Belkadi, L. Petit, E. Bonnivard, A. Dettaï, W. H Detrich III, C. Ozouf-Costaz and D. Higuet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:339
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  50. Formin, a highly conserved multi-domain protein, interacts with microfilaments and microtubules. Although specifically expressed formin genes in anthers are potentially significant in research on male sterility a...

    Authors: Wen-jing Duan, Zi-han Liu, Jian-fang Bai, Shao-hua Yuan, Yan-mei Li, Feng-kun Lu, Tian-bao Zhang, Jia-hui Sun, Feng-ting Zhang, Chang-ping Zhao and Li-ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:570
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