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  1. In China, although buffaloes are abundant, beef is mainly obtained from cattle, and this preference is mainly attributed to the low intramuscular fat (IMF) content of buffalo. Genetic factors are an important ...

    Authors: Jieping Huang, Xue Feng, Ruirui Zhu, Duo Guo, Yutong Wei, Xiaodan Cao, Yun Ma and Deshun Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:710
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  2. The CLV3/ESR-RELATED (CLE) gene family encodes small secreted peptides (SSPs) and plays vital roles in plant growth and development by promoting cell-to-cell communication. The prediction and classification of CL...

    Authors: Zhe Zhang, Lei Liu, Melis Kucukoglu, Dongdong Tian, Robert M. Larkin, Xueping Shi and Bo Zheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:709
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2020 21:895

  3. Nematode model organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus are powerful systems for studying the evolution of gene function at a mechanistic level. However, the identification of P. pacifi...

    Authors: Marina Athanasouli, Hanh Witte, Christian Weiler, Tobias Loschko, Gabi Eberhardt, Ralf J. Sommer and Christian Rödelsperger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:708
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  4. Lotus is an aquatic horticultural crop that is widely cultivated in most regions of China and is used as an important off-season vegetable. The principal root of lotus is degenerated, and adventitious roots (A...

    Authors: Cheng Libao, Han Yuyan, Zhao Minrong, Xu Xiaoyong, Shen Zhiguang, Wang Chunfei, Li Shuyan and Hu Zhubing
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:707
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  5. Epigenetics is one of the factors shaping natural variability observed among human populations. A small proportion of heritable inter-population differences are observed in the context of both the genome-wide ...

    Authors: Patrycja Daca-Roszak, Roman Jaksik, Julia Paczkowska, Michał Witt and Ewa Ziętkiewicz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:706
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  6. Belonging to lineage I of Brassicaceae, Camelina sativa is formed by two hybridizations of three species (three sub-genomes). The three sub-genomes were diverged from a common ancestor, likely derived from lineag...

    Authors: Zhikang Zhang, Fanbo Meng, Pengchuan Sun, Jiaqing Yuan, Ke Gong, Chao Liu, Weijie Wang and Xiyin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:705
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  7. The population genetics of U.S. honey bee stocks remain poorly characterized despite the agricultural importance of Apis mellifera as the major crop pollinator. Commercial and research-based breeding programs hav...

    Authors: Perot Saelao, Michael Simone-Finstrom, Arian Avalos, Lelania Bilodeau, Robert Danka, Lilia de Guzman, Frank Rinkevich and Philip Tokarz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:704
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  8. Optimization of an RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) pipeline is critical to maximize power and accuracy to identify genetic variants, including SNPs, which may serve as genetic markers to select for feed efficiency, l...

    Authors: S. Lam, J. Zeidan, F. Miglior, A. Suárez-Vega, I. Gómez-Redondo, P. A. S. Fonseca, L. L. Guan, S. Waters and A. Cánovas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:703
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  9. Borrelia bavariensis is one of the agents of Lyme Borreliosis (or Lyme disease) in Eurasia. The genome of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex, that includes B. bavariensis, is known to be very com...

    Authors: Noémie S. Becker, Robert E. Rollins, Kateryna Nosenko, Alexander Paulus, Samantha Martin, Stefan Krebs, Ai Takano, Kozue Sato, Sergey Y. Kovalev, Hiroki Kawabata, Volker Fingerle and Gabriele Margos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:702
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  10. Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) remains a major problem associated with swine production. Thus, understanding the physiological changes of postnatal IUGR piglets would aid in improving growth performanc...

    Authors: Hongmei Gao, Longchao Zhang, Ligang Wang, Xin Liu, Xinhua Hou, Fuping Zhao, Hua Yan and Lixian Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:701
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  11. A high-density genetic linkage map is essential for QTL fine mapping, comparative genome analysis, identification of candidate genes and marker-assisted selection in aquaculture species. Pelteobagrus vachelli is ...

    Authors: Guosong Zhang, Jie Li, Jiajia Zhang, Xia Liang, Tao Wang and Shaowu Yin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:700
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  12. Selenium is an essential trace element, and selenocysteine (Sec, U) is its predominant form in vivo. Proteins that contain Sec are selenoproteins, whose special structural features include not only the TGA cod...

    Authors: Liang Jiang, Yiqian Lu, Lin Zheng, Gaopeng Li, Lianchang Chen, Maona Zhang, Jiazuan Ni, Qiong Liu and Yan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:699
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  13. Although considerable progress has been made towards annotating the noncoding portion of the human and mouse genomes, regulatory elements in other species, such as livestock, remain poorly characterized. This ...

    Authors: Michelle M. Halstead, Colin Kern, Perot Saelao, Ying Wang, Ganrea Chanthavixay, Juan F. Medrano, Alison L. Van Eenennaam, Ian Korf, Christopher K. Tuggle, Catherine W. Ernst, Huaijun Zhou and Pablo J. Ross
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:698
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  14. Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is a major cool-season forage and turfgrass species. The low tiller density and size dramatically limits its turf performance and forage yield. MicroRNAs (miRNA)-genes mo...

    Authors: Tao Hu, Tao Wang, Huiying Li, Misganaw Wassie, Huawei Xu and Liang Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:696
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  15. The genome of Vibrionaceae bacteria, which consists of two circular chromosomes, is replicated in a highly ordered fashion. In fast-growing bacteria, multifork replication results in higher gene copy numbers and ...

    Authors: Cecilie Bækkedal Sonnenberg, Tim Kahlke and Peik Haugen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:695
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  17. Copepods are fundamental components of pelagic food webs, but reports on how molecular responses link to reproductive success in natural populations are still scarce. We present a de novo transcriptome assembl...

    Authors: Ennio Russo, Chiara Lauritano, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Angelo Fontana, Diana Sarno, Eric von Elert, Adrianna Ianora and Ylenia Carotenuto
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:693
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  18. The deep ocean is characterized by low temperatures, high hydrostatic pressures, and low concentrations of organic matter. While these conditions likely select for distinct genomic characteristics within proka...

    Authors: Logan M. Peoples, Than S. Kyaw, Juan A. Ugalde, Kelli K. Mullane, Roger A. Chastain, A. Aristides Yayanos, Masataka Kusube, Barbara A. Methé and Douglas H. Bartlett
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:692
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  19. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a fatal malignancy owing to the lack of effective tools to predict overall survival (OS). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in HNSCC occurrence, develop...

    Authors: Yusheng Huang, Zhiguo Liu, Limei Zhong, Yi Wen, Qixiang Ye, Donglin Cao, Peiwu Li and Yufeng Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:691
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  20. The process of identifying all coding regions in a genome is crucial for any study at the level of molecular biology, ranging from single-gene cloning to genome-wide measurements using RNA-seq or mass spectrom...

    Authors: Michal Levin, Marion Scheibe and Falk Butter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:690
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2020 21:790

  21. MiRNAs play essential roles in plant development and response to biotic and abiotic stresses through interaction with their target genes. The expression level of miRNAs shows great variations among different p...

    Authors: Shu-Yun Chen, Mei-Hsiu Su, Karl A. Kremling, Nicholas K. Lepak, M. Cinta Romay, Qi Sun, Peter J. Bradbury, Edward S. Buckler and Hsin-Mei Ku
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:689
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  22. Müllerian ducts are paired embryonic tubes that give rise to the female reproductive tract in vertebrates. Many disorders of female reproduction can be attributed to anomalies of Müllerian duct development. Ho...

    Authors: Zahida Yesmin Roly, Rasoul Godini, Martin A. Estermann, Andrew T. Major, Roger Pocock and Craig A. Smith
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:688
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  23. Common Pekin and Muscovy ducks and their intergeneric hinny and mule hybrids have different abilities for fatty liver production. RNA-Seq analyses from the liver of these different genetic types fed ad libitum...

    Authors: Xi Liu, Frédéric Hérault, Christian Diot and Erwan Corre
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:687
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  24. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs playing vital roles in regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. Elucidating the expression regulation of miRNAs underlying pig testis development will contri...

    Authors: Haisheng Ding, Min Liu, Changfan Zhou, Xiangbin You, Tao Su, Youbing Yang and Dequan Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:686
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  25. APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE FACTOR (AP2/ERF) transcription factors play essential roles in plant growth, development, metabolism, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, few studies concerning AP2...

    Authors: Peiting Li, Zhe Chai, Pingping Lin, Chaohua Huang, Guoqiang Huang, Liangnian Xu, Zuhu Deng, Muqing Zhang, Yu Zhang and Xinwang Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:685
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  26. Coexpression network analysis is a powerful tool to reveal transcriptional regulatory mechanisms, identify transcription factors, and discover gene functions. It can also be used to investigate changes in coex...

    Authors: Lihe Liu, Rocío Amorín, Philipe Moriel, Nicolás DiLorenzo, Phillip A. Lancaster and Francisco Peñagaricano
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:684
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  27. Bos taurus and Bos indicus are two main sub-species of cattle. However, the differential copy number variations (CNVs) between them are not yet well studied.

    Authors: Yan Hu, Han Xia, Mingxun Li, Chang Xu, Xiaowei Ye, Ruixue Su, Mai Zhang, Oyekanmi Nash, Tad S. Sonstegard, Liguo Yang, George E. Liu and Yang Zhou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:682
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  28. Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) as an important regulator has been demonstrated playing an indispensable role in the biological process of hair follicles (HFs) growth. However, their function and expression profi...

    Authors: Xiaolan Zhang, Qi Bao, Congjun Jia, Chen Li, Yongfang Chang, Xiaoyun Wu, Chunnian Liang, Pengjia Bao and Ping Yan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:681
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  30. Species of the genus Monascus are considered to be economically important and have been widely used in the production of yellow and red food colorants. In particular, three Monascus species, namely, M. pilosus, M...

    Authors: Yuki Higa, Young-Soo Kim, Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin, Ming Huang, Naoaki Ono and Shigehiko Kanaya
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:679
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  31. Advances in bioinformatics recently allowed for the recovery of ‘metagenomes assembled genomes’ from human microbiome studies carried on with shotgun sequencing techniques. Such approach is used as a mean to d...

    Authors: Matteo Soverini, Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni, Patrizia Brigidi, Elena Biagi and Marco Candela
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:678
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  32. The mammalian Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a genetic region containing highly polymorphic genes with immunological functions. MHC class I and class II genes encode antigen-presenting molecules exp...

    Authors: Marie Klumplerova, Petra Splichalova, Jan Oppelt, Jan Futas, Aneta Kohutova, Petra Musilova, Svatava Kubickova, Roman Vodicka, Ludovic Orlando and Petr Horin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:677
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  33. Abscisic acid (ABA), a key phytohormone that controls plant growth and stress responses, is sensed by the pyrabactin resistance 1(PYR1)/PYR1-like (PYL)/regulatory components of the ABA receptor (RCAR) family o...

    Authors: Shashank Kumar Yadav, Vinjamuri Venkata Santosh Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Verma, Pragya Yadav, Ankit Saroha, Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede, Bhupendra Chaudhary and Viswanathan Chinnusamy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:676
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  34. The Fujian oyster Crassostrea angulata is an economically important species that has typical settlement and metamorphosis stages. The development of the oyster involves complex morphological and physiological cha...

    Authors: Guilan Di, Xiaohuo Xiao, Ming Him Tong, Xinhua Chen, Li Li, Miaoqin Huang, Long Zhou and Caihuan Ke
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:675
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  35. Fuzhong buffalo, a native breed of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is traditionally used as a draft animal to provide farm power in the rice cultivation. In addition, the Fuzhong buffalo also prepared for th...

    Authors: Ting Sun, Guang-yun Huang, Zi-hao Wang, Shao-hua Teng, Yan-hong Cao, Jun-li Sun, Quratulain Hanif, Ning-bo Chen, Chu-zhao Lei and Yu-ying Liao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:674
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  36. The development of biomass crops aims to meet industrial yield demands, in order to optimize profitability and sustainability. Achieving these goals in an energy crop like sugarcane relies on breeding for sucr...

    Authors: Fernando Henrique Correr, Guilherme Kenichi Hosaka, Fernanda Zatti Barreto, Isabella Barros Valadão, Thiago Willian Almeida Balsalobre, Agnelo Furtado, Robert James Henry, Monalisa Sampaio Carneiro and Gabriel Rodrigues Alves Margarido
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:673
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  37. Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) is one of the most important Neotropical aquaculture species from South America. Disease outbreaks caused by Aeromonas hydrophila infection have been considered significant contribu...

    Authors: Vito A. Mastrochirico-Filho, Carolina H. S. Borges, Milena V. Freitas, Raquel B. Ariede, Fabiana Pilarski, Ricardo Utsunomia, Roberto Carvalheiro, Alejandro P. Gutierrez, Carolina Peñaloza, José M. Yáñez, Ross D. Houston and Diogo T. Hashimoto
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:672
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  38. Symbiosis is central to ecosystems and has been an important driving force of the diversity of life. Close and long-term interactions are known to develop cooperative molecular mechanisms between the symbiotic...

    Authors: Mieko Kono, Yoshiaki Kon, Yoshihito Ohmura, Yoko Satta and Yohey Terai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:671
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  39. Flagellar motility is an efficient means of movement that allows bacteria to successfully colonize and compete with other microorganisms within their respective environments. The production and functioning of ...

    Authors: Pieter De Maayer, Talia Pillay and Teresa A. Coutinho
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:670
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  40. Restrictions to gene flow, genetic drift, and divergent selection associated with different environments are significant drivers of genetic differentiation. The black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon), is widely dis...

    Authors: Nga T. T. Vu, Kyall R. Zenger, Jarrod L. Guppy, Melony J. Sellars, Catarina N. S. Silva, Shannon R. Kjeldsen and Dean R. Jerry
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:669
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2021 22:559

  41. The clupeoid fishes are ecologically and commercially important fish species worldwide that exhibit a high level of population fluctuation, accompanied by alteration of reproductive traits. However, knowledge ...

    Authors: Mitsuo Nyuji, Yuki Hongo, Michio Yoneda and Masahiro Nakamura
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:668
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  42. Homologous sex chromosomes can differentiate over time because recombination is suppressed in the region of the sex determining locus, leading to the accumulation of repeats, progressive loss of genes that lac...

    Authors: Duminda Sampath Bandara Dissanayake, Clare Ellen Holleley, Laura Kate Hill, Denis O’Meally, Janine Eileen Deakin and Arthur Georges
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:667
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  43. Nervous systems originated before the split of Proto- and Deuterostomia, more than 600 million years ago. Four animal phyla (Cnidaria, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Porifera) diverged before this split and studying th...

    Authors: Thomas L. Koch and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:666
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  44. Pathogenic Rickettsia species belonging to the spotted fever group are arthropod-borne, obligate intracellular bacteria which exhibit preferential tropism for host microvascular endothelium in the mammalian hosts...

    Authors: Hema P. Narra, Abha Sahni, Jessica Alsing, Casey L. C. Schroeder, George Golovko, Anna M. Nia, Yuriy Fofanov, Kamil Khanipov and Sanjeev K. Sahni
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:665
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  45. Cyanobacteria maintain extensive repertoires of regulatory genes that are vital for adaptation to environmental stress. Some cyanobacterial genomes have been noted to encode diversity-generating retroelements ...

    Authors: Alec Vallota-Eastman, Eleanor C. Arrington, Siobhan Meeken, Simon Roux, Krishna Dasari, Sydney Rosen, Jeff F. Miller, David L. Valentine and Blair G. Paul
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:664
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  46. Albino mutations are commonly observed in the animal kingdom, including in bivalves. In the black-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera, albino specimens are characterized by total or partial absence of colo...

    Authors: Pauline Auffret, Jérémy Le Luyer, Manaarii Sham Koua, Virgile Quillien and Chin-Long Ky
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:662
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  47. The origin of most of the Lactobacillus rhamnosus genome sequences lodged in NCBI can be traced to food and faecal isolates followed by blood and tissue sites but with minimal representation from oral and vaginal...

    Authors: Mangala A. Nadkarni, Nandan P. Deshpande, Marc R. Wilkins and Neil Hunter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:661
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  48. Meat quality is a complex trait affected by genotypic and environmental factors. In a previous study, it was found that feedstuffs have various effects on the growth rate and meat quality of lambs. However, th...

    Authors: Jianghong Wu, Ding Yang, Husile Gong, Yunxia Qi, Hailian Sun, Yongbin Liu, Yahong Liu and Xiao Qiu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:660
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  49. The banana (Musa sp., AAA) genome is constantly increasing due to high-frequency of somaclonal variations. Due to its large diversity, a conventional numerical and morphological based taxonomic identification of ...

    Authors: S. Dhivya, S. Ashutosh, I. Gowtham, V. Baskar, A. Baala Harini, S. Mukunthakumar and R. Sathishkumar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:659
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  50. Horizontal gene transfer contributes to bacterial evolution through mobilising genes across various taxonomical boundaries. It is frequently mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs), which may capture, maint...

    Authors: Yu Wan, Ryan R. Wick, Justin Zobel, Danielle J. Ingle, Michael Inouye and Kathryn E. Holt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:658
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