Skip to main content

Articles

Page 75 of 338

  1. Maternal effects contribute to adaptive significance for shaping various phenotypes of many traits. Potential implications of maternal effects are the cause of expression diversity, but these effects on mRNA e...

    Authors: Li Ren, Xiaojing Yan, Xin Gao, Jialin Cui, Pengcheng Yan, Chang Wu, Wuhui Li and Shaojun Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:457
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The increasing demand of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) experiments, such as the number of experiments and cells queried per experiment, necessitates higher sequencing depth coupled to high data qualit...

    Authors: Austin N. Southard-Smith, Alan J. Simmons, Bob Chen, Angela L. Jones, Marisol A. Ramirez Solano, Paige N. Vega, Cherie’ R. Scurrah, Yue Zhao, Michael J. Brenan, Jiekun Xuan, Martha J. Shrubsole, Ely B. Porter, Xi Chen, Colin J. H. Brenan, Qi Liu, Lauren N. M. Quigley…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:456
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  3. One of the health risks posed to astronauts during deep space flights is exposure to high charge, high-energy (HZE) ions (Z > 13), which can lead to the induction of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, li...

    Authors: Anna M. Nia, Kamil Khanipov, Brooke L. Barnette, Robert L. Ullrich, George Golovko and Mark R. Emmett
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:453
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Although horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a widely accepted force in the evolution of prokaryotic genomes, its role in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes remains hotly debated. Some bdelloid rotifers that ar...

    Authors: Xixi Li, Cheng Fang, Jun-Peng Zhao, Xiao-Yu Zhou, Zhihua Ni and Deng-Ke Niu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:452
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Beauveria bassiana (B. bassiana) is a famous entomopathogenic fungus that could parasitize on hundreds of insect species, which are being used as an environmentally friendly mycoinsecticide. Nevertheless, the pos...

    Authors: Zhengkun Zhang, Yang Lu, Wenjing Xu, Li Sui, Qian Du, Yangzhou Wang, Yu Zhao and Qiyun Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:451
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. The rice leaf folder Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Güenée is a serious insect pest of rice in Asia. This pest occurs in summer, and it is sensitive to high temperature. However, the larvae exhibit heat acclimation/ada...

    Authors: Peng-Qi Quan, Ming-Zhu Li, Gao-Rong Wang, Ling-Ling Gu and Xiang-Dong Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:450
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Dickeya solani is an important plant pathogenic bacterium causing severe losses in European potato production. This species draws a lot of attention due to its remarkable virulence, great devastating potential an...

    Authors: Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, Sabina Zoledowska, Agnieszka Emilia Misztak, Wojciech Sledz, Alessio Mengoni and Ewa Lojkowska
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:449
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Most diversity in the eukaryotic tree of life is represented by microbial eukaryotes, which is a polyphyletic group also referred to as protists. Among the protists, currently sequenced genomes and transcripto...

    Authors: Henning Onsbring, Alexander K. Tice, Brandon T. Barton, Matthew W. Brown and Thijs J. G. Ettema
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:448
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  10. Approximately 5% of the human genome shows common structural variation, which is enriched for genes involved in the immune response and cell-cell interactions. A well-established region of extensive structural...

    Authors: Sandra Louzada, Walid Algady, Eleanor Weyell, Luciana W. Zuccherato, Paulina Brajer, Faisal Almalki, Marilia O. Scliar, Michel S. Naslavsky, Guilherme L. Yamamoto, Yeda A. O. Duarte, Maria Rita Passos-Bueno, Mayana Zatz, Fengtang Yang and Edward J. Hollox
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:446
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Multiple C2 domains and transmembrane region proteins (MCTPs) may act as transport mediators of other regulators. Although increased number of MCTPs in higher plants implies their diverse and specific functions i...

    Authors: Pengbo Hao, Hantao Wang, Liang Ma, Aimin Wu, Pengyun Chen, Shuaishuai Cheng, Hengling Wei and Shuxun Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:445
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. The class III peroxidases (PODs) are involved in a broad range of physiological activities, such as the formation of lignin, cell wall components, defense against pathogenicity or herbivore, and abiotic stress...

    Authors: Huilin Xiao, Chaoping Wang, Nadeem Khan, Mengxia Chen, Weihong Fu, Le Guan and Xiangpeng Leng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:444
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. The gonad is the major factor affecting animal reproduction. The regulatory mechanism of the expression of protein-coding genes involved in reproduction still remains to be elucidated. Increasing evidence has ...

    Authors: Xiao Ma, Shuangshuang Cen, Luming Wang, Chao Zhang, Limin Wu, Xue Tian, Qisheng Wu, Xuejun Li and Xiaoqing Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:443
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Order Chaetophorales currently includes six families, namely Schizomeridaceae, Aphanochaetaceae, Barrancaceae, Uronemataceae, Fritschiellaceae, and Chaetophoraceae. The phylogenetic relationships of Chaetophor...

    Authors: Benwen Liu, Yuxin Hu, Zhengyu Hu, Guoxiang Liu and Huan Zhu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:442
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth and play import roles in marine biogeochemical cycles. Here, viral communities in the surface water of the East China Sea (ECS) were collected from th...

    Authors: Shuang Wu, Liang Zhou, Yifan Zhou, Hongming Wang, Jinzhou Xiao, Shuling Yan and Yongjie Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:441
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Amanitin-producing mushrooms, mainly distributed in the genera Amanita, Galerina and Lepiota, possess MSDIN gene family for the biosynthesis of many cyclopeptides catalysed by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP). Recentl...

    Authors: Zhengmi He, Pan Long, Fang Fang, Sainan Li, Ping Zhang and Zuohong Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:440
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. In the past several years, the use of resistant starch (RS) as prebiotic has extensively been studied in pigs, and this mostly in the critical period around weaning. RS is believed to exert beneficial effects ...

    Authors: Martine Schroyen, Julie Leblois, Julie Uerlings, Bing Li, Ester Arévalo Sureda, Sébastien Massart, José Wavreille, Jérôme Bindelle and Nadia Everaert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:439
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Sex-related genes play a crucial role in gonadal differentiation into testes or ovaries. However, the genetic control of gonadal differentiation in Muscovy ducks remains unknown. Therefore, the objective of ou...

    Authors: Ding-Ping Bai, Yue Chen, Yu-Qiong Hu, Wen-Feng He, Yu-Zhu Shi, Qin-Ming Fan, Ru-Tang Luo and Ang Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:438
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. It was demonstrated in our previous research that trypsin scavenges superoxide anions. In this study, the mechanisms of storage quality improvement by trypsin were evaluated in H. undatus.

    Authors: Xin Li, Xueru Liu, Xinyue Pang, Yong Yin, Huichun Yu, Yunxia Yuan and Bairu Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:437
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Fatty liver is a high incidence of perinatal disease in dairy cows caused by negative energy balance, which seriously threatens the postpartum health and milk production. It has been reported that lysine acety...

    Authors: Zhang Le-tian, Hu Cheng-zhang, Zhang Xuan, Qin Zhang, Yan Zhen-gui, Wei Qing-qing, Wang Sheng-xuan, Xu Zhong-jin, Li Ran-ran, Liu Ting-jun, Su Zhong-qu, Wang Zhong-hua and Shi Ke-rong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:435
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Wheat (Triticum aestivium L.) is an important crop globally which has a complex genome. To identify the parents with useful agronomic characteristics that could be used in the various breeding programs, it is ver...

    Authors: Amira M. I. Mourad, Vikas Belamkar and P. Stephen Baenziger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:434
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Despite being one of the primary mechanisms of gene expression regulation in eukaryotes, alternative splicing is often overlooked in ecotoxicogenomic studies. The process of alternative splicing facilitates th...

    Authors: Sneha Suresh, Teresa J. Crease, Melania E. Cristescu and Frédéric J. J. Chain
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:433
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. The identification of bona fide microbial taxa in microbiomes derived from ancient and historical samples is complicated by the unavoidable mixture between DNA from ante- and post-mortem microbial colonizers. ...

    Authors: Clemens L. Weiß, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Matthias Meyer and Hernán A. Burbano
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:432
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. The low genetic diversity of Upland cotton limits the potential for genetic improvement. Making full use of the genetic resources of Sea-island cotton will facilitate genetic improvement of widely cultivated U...

    Authors: De Zhu, Ximei Li, Zhiwei Wang, Chunyuan You, Xinhui Nie, Jie Sun, Xianlong Zhang, Dawei Zhang and Zhongxu Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:431
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. During goat embryonic morphogenesis and postnatal initiation of hair follicle (HF) regeneration, dermal papilla (DP) cells play a vital role in hair formation. Growing evidence shows that microRNAs (miRNAs) pa...

    Authors: Yuelang Zhang, Sizhe Xia, Tianci Wang, Shanhe Wang, Dan Yuan, Fang Li and Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:430
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The brown alga, Cladosiphon okamuranus (Okinawa mozuku), is one of the most important edible seaweeds, and it is cultivated for market primarily in Okinawa, Japan. Four strains, denominated S, K, O, and C, with d...

    Authors: Koki Nishitsuji, Asuka Arimoto, Yoshitaka Yonashiro, Kanako Hisata, Manabu Fujie, Mayumi Kawamitsu, Eiichi Shoguchi and Noriyuki Satoh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:422
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The circadian clock drives endogenous 24-h rhythms that allow organisms to adapt and prepare for predictable and repeated changes in their environment throughout the day-night (diurnal) cycle. Many components ...

    Authors: Xianjun Lai, Claire Bendix, Lang Yan, Yang Zhang, James C. Schnable and Frank G. Harmon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:428
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Vespa velutina, one of the most aggressive and fearful wasps in China, can cause grievous allergies and toxic reactions, leading to organ failure and even death. However, there is little evidence on molecular dat...

    Authors: Junjie Tan, Wenbo Wang, Fan Wu, Yunming Li and Quanshui Fan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:427
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Mitochondrial genomic sequences are known to be variable. Comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes can reveal the nature and extent of their variation.

    Authors: Youjin Deng, Xunxiao Zhang, Baogui Xie, Longji Lin, Tom Hsiang, Xiangzhi Lin, Yiying Lin, Xingtan Zhang, Yanhong Ma, Wenjing Miao and Ray Ming
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:426
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Cellular reprogramming in response to environmental stress involves alteration of gene expression, changes in the protein and metabolite profile for ensuring better stress management in plants. Similar to othe...

    Authors: Pratiti Dasgupta, Abhishek Das, Sambit Datta, Ishani Banerjee, Sucheta Tripathy and Shubho Chaudhuri
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:425
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Secondary metabolites as natural products from endophytic fungi are important sources of pharmaceuticals. However, there is currently little understanding of endophytic fungi at the omics levels about their po...

    Authors: Jin-Tao Cheng, Fei Cao, Xin-Ai Chen, Yong-Quan Li and Xu-Ming Mao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:424
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Salinity, alkalinity, and drought stress are the main abiotic stress factors affecting plant growth and development. Sophora alopecuroides L., a perennial leguminous herb in the genus Sophora, is a highly salt-to...

    Authors: Fan Yan, Youcheng Zhu, Yanan Zhao, Ying Wang, Jingwen Li, Qingyu Wang and Yajing Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:423
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Cold hardiness is an important agronomic trait and can significantly affect grape production and quality. Until now, there are no reports focusing on cold hardiness quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping. In th...

    Authors: Kai Su, Huiyang Xing, Yinshan Guo, Fangyuan Zhao, Zhendong Liu, Kun Li, Yuanyuan Li and Xiuwu Guo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:419
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. In bacteria, pan-genomes are the result of an evolutionary “tug of war” between selection and horizontal gene transfer (HGT). High rates of HGT increase the genetic pool and the effective population size (Ne), re...

    Authors: Mirna Vázquez-Rosas-Landa, Gabriel Yaxal Ponce-Soto, Jonás A. Aguirre-Liguori, Shalabh Thakur, Enrique Scheinvar, Josué Barrera-Redondo, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, David S. Guttman, Luis E. Eguiarte and Valeria Souza
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:418
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) can be isolated from numerous tissues and are attractive candidates for therapeutic clinical applications due to their immunomodulatory and pro-regenerative capacit...

    Authors: Satoru Onizuka, Yasuharu Yamazaki, Sung-Joon Park, Takayuki Sugimoto, Yumiko Sone, Sebastian Sjöqvist, Michihiko Usui, Akira Takeda, Kenta Nakai, Keisuke Nakashima and Takanori Iwata
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:417
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2020 21:551

  40. Recent literature on the differential role of genes within networks distinguishes core from peripheral genes. If previous works have shown contrasting features between them, whether such categorization matters...

    Authors: Aurélien Chateigner, Marie-Claude Lesage-Descauses, Odile Rogier, Véronique Jorge, Jean-Charles Leplé, Véronique Brunaud, Christine Paysant-Le Roux, Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Leopoldo Sanchez and Vincent Segura
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:416
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Artemisia in East Asia includes a number of economically important taxa that are widely used for food, medicinal, and ornamental purposes. The identification of taxa, however, has been hampered by insufficient di...

    Authors: Goon-Bo Kim, Chae Eun Lim, Jin-Seok Kim, Kyeonghee Kim, Jeong Hoon Lee, Hee-Ju Yu and Jeong-Hwan Mun
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:415
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. DNA replication in trypanosomatids operates in a uniquely challenging environment, since most of their genomes are constitutively transcribed. Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, presents ...

    Authors: Christiane Bezerra de Araujo, Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha, Davi Toshio Inada, Jeziel Damasceno, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo Lima, Priscila Hiraiwa, Catarina Marques, Evonnildo Gonçalves, Milton Yutaka Nishiyama-Junior, Richard McCulloch and Maria Carolina Elias
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:414
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. In recent years, increased attention has been focused on breast muscle yield and meat quality in poultry production. Supplementation with nicotinamide and butyrate sodium can improve the meat quality of broile...

    Authors: Yuqin Wu, Youli Wang, Dafei Yin, Tahir Mahmood and Jianmin Yuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:412
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Fulvic acid (FA) is a kind of plant growth regulator, which can promote plant growth, play an important role in fighting against drought, improve plant stress resistance, increase production and improve qualit...

    Authors: Jianhao Sun, Chen Qiu, Yiqian Ding, Yu Wang, Litao Sun, Kai Fan, Zhongshuai Gai, Guoqiang Dong, Jiguo Wang, Xinghui Li, Lubin Song and Zhaotang Ding
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:411
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Coilia nasus (C. nasus) is an important anadromous fish species that resides in the Yangtze River of China, and has high ecological and economical value. However, wild resources have suffered from a serious reduc...

    Authors: Meiyao Wang, Gangchun Xu, Yongkai Tang and Pao Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:410
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is one of the common causes of acute encephalitis in humans. Japanese encephalitis is characterized by the uncontrolled release of inflammatory cytokines, which ultimately res...

    Authors: Yunchuan Li, Usama Ashraf, Zheng Chen, Dengyuan Zhou, Muhammad Imran, Jing Ye, Huanchun Chen and Shengbo Cao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:409
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. The metabolic capacity, stress response and evolution of uncultured environmental Tenericutes have remained elusive, since previous studies have been largely focused on pathogenic species. In this study, we ex...

    Authors: Yong Wang, Jiao-Mei Huang, Ying-Li Zhou, Alexandre Almeida, Robert D. Finn, Antoine Danchin and Li-Sheng He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:408
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. The Escherichia coli ER2566 strain (NC_CP014268.2) was developed as a BL21 (DE3) derivative strain and had been widely used in recombinant protein expression. However, like many other current RefSeq annotations, ...

    Authors: Lizhi Zhou, Hai Yu, Kaihang Wang, Tingting Chen, Yue Ma, Yang Huang, Jiajia Li, Liqin Liu, Yuqian Li, Zhibo Kong, Qingbing Zheng, Yingbin Wang, Ying Gu, Ningshao Xia and Shaowei Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:407
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Jute (Corchorus spp.), belonging to the Malvaceae family, is an important natural fiber crop, second only to cotton, and a multipurpose economic crop. Corchorus capsularis L. is one of the only two commercially c...

    Authors: Zemao Yang, Zhigang Dai, Xiaojun Chen, Dongwei Xie, Qing Tang, Chaohua Cheng, Ying Xu, Canhui Deng, Chan Liu, Jiquan Chen and Jianguang Su
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:406
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Parasites employ proteases to evade host immune systems, feed and replicate and are often the target of anti-parasite strategies to disrupt these interactions. Myxozoans are obligate cnidarian parasites, alter...

    Authors: Ashlie Hartigan, Anush Kosakyan, Hana Pecková, Edit Eszterbauer and Astrid S. Holzer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:404
    Content type: Research article Published on:

Featured videos

View featured videos from across the BMC-series journals

Submit manuscript

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 3.5
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.1
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.083
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.047

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 21
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 137

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 7,167,242
    Altmetric mentions: 4,454

Follow

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal

BMC Genomics

ISSN: 1471-2164

Contact us