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  1. Interactions between fish and pathogens, that may be harmless under natural conditions, often result in serious diseases in aquaculture systems. This is especially important due to the fact that the strains us...

    Authors: Silvia T Rodríguez-Ramilo, Miguel A Toro, Carmen Bouza, Miguel Hermida, Belén G Pardo, Santiago Cabaleiro, Paulino Martínez and Jesús Fernández
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:541
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  2. Epigenetic modifications of histones and regulation of chromatin structure have been implicated in regulation of virulence gene families in P. falciparum. To better understand chromatin-mediated gene regulation, ...

    Authors: Scott J Westenberger, Long Cui, Neekesh Dharia, Elizabeth Winzeler and Liwang Cui
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:610
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  3. Spermatogenesis is a complex differentiation process that involves the successive and simultaneous execution of three different gene expression programs: mitotic proliferation of spermatogonia, meiosis, and sp...

    Authors: Irene da Cruz, Rosana Rodríguez-Casuriaga, Federico F. Santiñaque, Joaquina Farías, Gianni Curti, Carlos A. Capoano, Gustavo A. Folle, Ricardo Benavente, José Roberto Sotelo-Silveira and Adriana Geisinger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:294
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  4. Brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens Stål), is the most destructive phloem-feeding insect pest of rice (Oryza sativa). The BPH-resistance gene BPH15 has been proved to be effective in controlling the pest a...

    Authors: Wentang Lv, Ba Du, Xinxin Shangguan, Yan Zhao, Yufang Pan, Lili Zhu, Yuqing He and Guangcun He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:674
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  5. Wild relatives of wheat play a significant role in wheat improvement as a source of genetic diversity. Stem rust disease of wheat causes significant yield losses at the global level and stem rust pathogen race...

    Authors: Erena A. Edae, Pablo D. Olivera, Yue Jin, Jesse A. Poland and Matthew N. Rouse
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:1039
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  6. The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a genomic region containing genes with crucial roles in immune responses. MHC class I and class II genes encode antigen-presenting molecules expressed on the cell ...

    Authors: Martin Plasil, Elmira Mohandesan, Robert R. Fitak, Petra Musilova, Svatava Kubickova, Pamela A. Burger and Petr Horin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:167
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  7. Williams syndrome transcription factor (WSTF) is a multifaceted protein that is involved in several nuclear processes, including replication, transcription, and the DNA damage response. WSTF participates in a ...

    Authors: Ashley E Culver-Cochran and Brian P Chadwick
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:740
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  8. LTR retrotransposons contribute approximately 10 % of the mammalian genome, but it has been previously reported that there is a deficit of these elements in the chicken relative to both mammals and other birds...

    Authors: Andrew S. Mason, Janet E. Fulton, Paul M. Hocking and David W. Burt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:688
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  9. Evolution of the Brassica species has been recursively affected by polyploidy events, and comparison to their relative, Arabidopsis thaliana, provides means to explore their genomic complexity.

    Authors: Xiyin Wang, Manuel J Torres, Gary Pierce, Cornelia Lemke, Lisa K Nelson, Bayram Yuksel, John E Bowers, Barry Marler, Yongli Xiao, Lifeng Lin, Ethan Epps, Heidi Sarazen, Carl Rogers, Santhosh Karunakaran, Jennifer Ingles, Emily Giattina…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:470
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  10. The problem of supervised DNA sequence classification arises in several fields of computational molecular biology. Although this problem has been extensively studied, it is still computationally challenging du...

    Authors: Rachid Ounit, Steve Wanamaker, Timothy J Close and Stefano Lonardi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:236
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  11. The nucleosome is the fundamental unit of eukaryotic genomes. Experimental evidence suggests that the genomic DNA sequence and a variety of protein factors contribute to nucleosome positioning in vivo. However, h...

    Authors: Zhiming Dai, Xianhua Dai, Qian Xiang, Jihua Feng, Yangyang Deng and Jiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:602
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  12. Improving yield and yield-related traits is the crucial goal in breeding programmes of cereals. Meta-QTL (MQTL) analysis discovers the most stable QTLs regardless of populations genetic background and field tr...

    Authors: Bahman Khahani, Elahe Tavakol, Vahid Shariati and Fabio Fornara
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:294
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  13. Genome scans based on outlier analyses have revolutionized detection of genes involved in adaptive processes, but reports of some forms of selection, such as balancing selection, are still limited. It is uncle...

    Authors: James Buckley, Eric B. Holub, Marcus A. Koch, Philippine Vergeer and Barbara K. Mable
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:496
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  14. Ribosomal DNAs (rDNAs) are arranged in purely tandem repeats, preventing them from being reliably assembled onto chromosomes during generation of genome assembly. The uncertainty of rDNA genomic structure pres...

    Authors: Qiutao Ding, Runsheng Li, Xiaoliang Ren, Lu-yan Chan, Vincy W. S. Ho, Dongying Xie, Pohao Ye and Zhongying Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:238
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  15. Cultivated peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed crop with an allotetraploid genome (AABB, 2n = 4x = 40). Both the low level of genetic variation within the cultivated gene pool and it...

    Authors: Yufang Guo, Sameer Khanal, Shunxue Tang, John E Bowers, Adam F Heesacker, Nelly Khalilian, Ervin D Nagy, Dong Zhang, Christopher A Taylor, H Thomas Stalker, Peggy Ozias-Akins and Steven J Knapp
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:608
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  16. Barley semi-dwarf genes have been extensively explored and widely used in barley breeding programs. The semi-dwarf gene ari-e from Golden Promise is an important gene associated with some agronomic traits and sal...

    Authors: Qiaojun Jia, Cong Tan, Junmei Wang, Xiao-Qi Zhang, Jinghuan Zhu, Hao Luo, Jianming Yang, Sharon Westcott, Sue Broughton, David Moody and Chengdao Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:911
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  17. Topologically associating domains (TADs) are considered the structural and functional units of the genome. However, there is a lack of an integrated resource for TADs in the literature where researchers can ob...

    Authors: Tong Liu, Jacob Porter, Chenguang Zhao, Hao Zhu, Nan Wang, Zheng Sun, Yin-Yuan Mo and Zheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:217
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  18. The ovine Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) harbors clusters of genes involved in overall resistance/susceptibility of an animal to infectious pathogens. However, only a limited number of ovine MHC genes ...

    Authors: Jianfeng Gao, Ka Liu, Haibo Liu, Hugh T Blair, Gang Li, Chuangfu Chen, Pingping Tan and Runlin Z Ma
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:466
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  19. The human KIR genes are arranged in at least six major gene-content haplotypes, all of which are combinations of four centromeric and two telomeric motifs. Several less frequent or minor haplotypes also exist, in...

    Authors: Chul-Woo Pyo, Ruihan Wang, Quyen Vu, Nezih Cereb, Soo Young Yang, Fuh-Mei Duh, Steven Wolinsky, Maureen P Martin, Mary Carrington and Daniel E Geraghty
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:89
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  20. Anopheles innate immunity affects Plasmodium development and is a potential target of innovative malaria control strategies. The extent and distribution of nucleotide diversity in immunity genes might provide ins...

    Authors: Anna Cohuet, Sujatha Krishnakumar, Frédéric Simard, Isabelle Morlais, Anastasios Koutsos, Didier Fontenille, Michael Mindrinos and Fotis C Kafatos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:227
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  21. DNA cytosine methylation is an epigenetic modification that has been implicated in many biological processes. However, large-scale epigenomic studies have been applied to very few plant species, and variabilit...

    Authors: Kelly J Vining, Kyle R Pomraning, Larry J Wilhelm, Henry D Priest, Matteo Pellegrini, Todd C Mockler, Michael Freitag and Steven H Strauss
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:27
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  22. Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] is an economically important fruit crop that has become a genetic-genomic model for all Prunus species in the family Rosaceae. A doubled haploid reference genome sequence length...

    Authors: Jonathan Fresnedo-Ramírez, Pedro J Martínez-García, Dan E Parfitt, Carlos H Crisosto and Thomas M Gradziel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:750
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  23. Repetitive DNA sequences accounts for over 80% of maize genome. Although simple sequence repeats (SSRs) account for only 0.03% of the genome, they have been widely used in maize genetic research and breeding a...

    Authors: Meiqi Zhao, Guoping Shu, Yanhong Hu, Gangqiang Cao and Yibo Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:136
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  24. Wolbachia wMel is the most commonly used strain in rear and release strategies for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that aim to inhibit the transmission of arboviruses such as dengue, Zika, Chikungunya and yellow fever....

    Authors: Meng-Jia Lau, Thomas L. Schmidt, Qiong Yang, Jessica Chung, Lucien Sankey, Perran A. Ross and Ary A. Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:894
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  25. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) has recently been used to identify the modification patterns for the methylation and acetylation of many different histone tails ...

    Authors: Jeffrey A Rosenfeld, Zhibin Wang, Dustin E Schones, Keji Zhao, Rob DeSalle and Michael Q Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:143
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  26. Dense single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays provide extensive information on polymorphic variation across the genome of species of interest. Such information can be used in studies of the gene...

    Authors: Ross D Houston, John B Taggart, Timothé Cézard, Michaël Bekaert, Natalie R Lowe, Alison Downing, Richard Talbot, Stephen C Bishop, Alan L Archibald, James E Bron, David J Penman, Alessandro Davassi, Fiona Brew, Alan E Tinch, Karim Gharbi and Alastair Hamilton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:90
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  27. Capping protein (CP), a heterodimer of α and β subunits, is found in all eukaryotes. CP binds to the barbed ends of actin filaments in vitro and controls actin assembly and cell motility in vivo. Vertebrates have...

    Authors: Marilyn C Hart, Yulia O Korshunova and John A Cooper
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2000 1:1
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  28. Pikes represent an important genus (Esox) harbouring a pre-duplication karyotype (2n = 2x = 50) of economically important salmonid pseudopolyploids. Here, we have characterized the 5S ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) i...

    Authors: Radka Symonová, Konrad Ocalewicz, Lech Kirtiklis, Giovanni Battista Delmastro, Šárka Pelikánová, Sonia Garcia and Aleš Kovařík
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:391
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  29. Advances in genome sequencing technology, particularly restriction-site associated DNA sequence (RAD-seq) and whole-genome resequencing, have greatly aided the construction of cotton interspecific genetic maps...

    Authors: Zhanfeng Si, Shangkun Jin, Jiedan Chen, Sen Wang, Lei Fang, Xiefei Zhu, Tianzhen Zhang and Yan Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:307
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  31. Due to an abundance of repetitive DNA, the annotation of heterochromatic regions of the genome such as the Y chromosome is problematic. The Y chromosome is involved in key biological functions such as male-fer...

    Authors: Leonardo B Koerich, Eduardo G Dupim, Leonardo L Faria, Felipe A Dias, Ana F Dias, Gabriela S Trindade, Rafael D Mesquita and Antonio B Carvalho
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:100
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  33. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are ideally suited for the construction of high-resolution genetic maps, studying population evolutionary history and performing genome-wide association mapping experimen...

    Authors: Shiaoman Chao, Jorge Dubcovsky, Jan Dvorak, Ming-Cheng Luo, Stephen P Baenziger, Rustam Matnyazov, Dale R Clark, Luther E Talbert, James A Anderson, Susanne Dreisigacker, Karl Glover, Jianli Chen, Kim Campbell, Phil L Bruckner, Jackie C Rudd, Scott Haley…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:727
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  34. There is only a limited understanding of the relation between copy number and expression for mammalian genes. We fine mapped cis and trans regulatory loci due to copy number change for essentially all genes using...

    Authors: Richard T Wang, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher C Park, Arshad H Khan, Kenneth Lange and Desmond J Smith
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:562
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  35. Recurrent non-random genomic alterations are the hallmarks of cancer and the characterization of these imbalances is critical to our understanding of tumorigenesis and cancer progression.

    Authors: Qing-Rong Chen, Sven Bilke, Jun S Wei, Craig C Whiteford, Nicola Cenacchi, Alexei L Krasnoselsky, Braden T Greer, Chang-Gue Son, Frank Westermann, Frank Berthold, Manfred Schwab, Daniel Catchpoole and Javed Khan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2004 5:70
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  37. To safeguard the food supply for the growing human population, it is important to understand and exploit the genetic basis of quantitative traits. Next-generation sequencing technology performs advantageously ...

    Authors: Hongjun Liu, Yongchao Niu, Pedro J. Gonzalez-Portilla, Huangkai Zhou, Liya Wang, Tao Zuo, Cheng Qin, Shuaishuai Tai, Constantin Jansen, Yaou Shen, Haijian Lin, Michael Lee, Doreen Ware, Zhiming Zhang, Thomas Lübberstedt and Guangtang Pan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:1078
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  38. Replication-independent endogenous double-strand breaks (RIND-EDSBs) occur in both humans and yeast in the absence of inductive agents and DNA replication. In human cells, RIND-EDSBs are hypermethylated, prefe...

    Authors: Monnat Pongpanich, Maturada Patchsung, Jirapan Thongsroy and Apiwat Mutirangura
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:750
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  39. Interaction between parental genomes is accompanied by global changes in gene expression which, eventually, contributes to growth vigor and the broader phenotypic diversity of allopolyploid species. In order t...

    Authors: Alina R Akhunova, Rustam T Matniyazov, Hanquan Liang and Eduard D Akhunov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:505
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  40. PhasiRNAs (phased secondary siRNAs) play important regulatory roles in the development processes and biotic or abiotic stresses in plants. Some of phasiRNAs involve in the reproductive development in grasses, ...

    Authors: Rongzhi Zhang, Siyuan Huang, Shiming Li, Guoqi Song, Yulian Li, Wei Li, Jihu Li, Jie Gao, Tiantian Gu, Dandan Li, Shujuan Zhang and Genying Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:200
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  41. Improving fiber quality is a major challenge in cotton breeding, since the molecular basis of fiber quality traits is poorly understood. Fine mapping and candidate gene prediction of quantitative trait loci (Q...

    Authors: Dexin Liu, Jian Zhang, Xueying Liu, Wenwen Wang, Dajun Liu, Zhonghua Teng, Xiaomei Fang, Zhaoyun Tan, Shiyi Tang, Jinghong Yang, Jianwei Zhong and Zhengsheng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:295
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  42. Medicago truncatula, model legume and alfalfa relative, has served as an essential resource for advancing our understanding of legume physiology, functional genetics, and crop improvement traits. Necrotrophic fun...

    Authors: Jacob R. Botkin, Andrew D. Farmer, Nevin D. Young and Shaun J. Curtin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:204
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  43. Sperm epigenetics is an emerging area of study supported by observations reporting that abnormal sperm DNA methylation patterns are associated with infertility. Here, we explore cytosine-guanine dinucleotides ...

    Authors: Emanuele Capra, Barbara Lazzari, Federica Turri, Paola Cremonesi, Antônia Moemia Rodrigues Portela, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Alessandra Stella and Flavia Pizzi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:940
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  44. Copy number variation (CNV) can lead to intra-specific genome variations. It is not only part of normal genetic variation, but also is the source of phenotypic differences. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a model organ...

    Authors: Ping Yu, Cai-Hong Wang, Qun Xu, Yue Feng, Xiao-Ping Yuan, Han-Yong Yu, Yi-Ping Wang, Sheng-Xiang Tang and Xing-Hua Wei
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:649
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  45. Molecular marker technologies are undergoing a transition from largely serial assays measuring DNA fragment sizes to hybridization-based technologies with high multiplexing levels. Diversity Arrays Technology ...

    Authors: Peter Wenzl, Haobing Li, Jason Carling, Meixue Zhou, Harsh Raman, Edie Paul, Phillippa Hearnden, Christina Maier, Ling Xia, Vanessa Caig, Jaroslava Ovesná, Mehmet Cakir, David Poulsen, Junping Wang, Rosy Raman, Kevin P Smith…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:206
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  46. Brassica is a very important genus of Brassicaceae, including many important oils, vegetables, forage crops, and ornamental horticultural plants. TLP family genes play important regulatory roles in the growth and...

    Authors: Tong Wang, Jingjing Hu, Xiao Ma, Chunjin Li, Qihang Yang, Shuyan Feng, Miaomiao Li, Nan Li and Xiaoming Song
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:264
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  48. Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr) is a necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes the major wheat disease, tan spot. We set out to provide essential genomics-based resources in order to better understand the patho...

    Authors: Paula Moolhuijzen, Pao Theen See, James K. Hane, Gongjun Shi, Zhaohui Liu, Richard P. Oliver and Caroline S. Moffat
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:279
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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