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  1. Intraspecific variations among induced responses might lead to understanding of adaptive variations in defense strategies against insects. We employed RNA-Seq transcriptome screening to elucidate the molecular...

    Authors: Ariel Ogran, Adi Faigenboim and Oz Barazani
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:843
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  2. Recent advances in genomic technologies have facilitated genome-wide investigation of human genetic variations. However, most efforts have focused on the major populations, yet trio genomes of indigenous popul...

    Authors: Lian Deng, Haiyi Lou, Xiaoxi Zhang, Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram, Dongsheng Lu, Christian R. Marshall, Chang Liu, Bo Xie, Wanxing Xu, Lai-Ping Wong, Chee-Wei Yew, Aghakhanian Farhang, Rick Twee-Hee Ong, Mohammad Zahirul Hoque, Abdul Rahman Thuhairah, Bhak Jong…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:842
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  3. Subfertility is a major issue facing the dairy industry as the average US Holstein cow conception rate (CCR) is approximately 35%. The genetics underlying the physiological processes responsible for CCR, the p...

    Authors: Jennifer N. Kiser, Erin Clancey, Joao G. N. Moraes, Joseph Dalton, Gregory W. Burns, Thomas E. Spencer and Holly L. Neibergs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:840
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  4. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) and its restoration of fertility (Rf) system is an important mechanism to produce F1 hybrid seeds. Understanding the interaction that controls restoration at a molecular level wil...

    Authors: Bingqiang Wei, Lanlan Wang, Paul W. Bosland, Gaoyuan Zhang and Ru Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:837
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  5. The Metarhizium genus harbors important entomopathogenic fungi. These species have been widely explored as biological control agents, and strategies to improve the fungal virulence are under investigation. Thus, ...

    Authors: Nicolau Sbaraini, Reinaldo Bellini, Augusto Bartz Penteriche, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Ane Wichine Acosta Garcia, Alexandra Lehmkuhl Gerber, Marilene Henning Vainstein, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Augusto Schrank and Charley Christian Staats
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:836
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  6. Tail-anchored membrane proteins (TAMPs) differ from other integral membrane proteins, because they contain a single transmembrane domain at the extreme carboxyl-terminus and are therefore obliged to target to ...

    Authors: Glauber Costa Brito, Wiebke Schormann, Satinder K. Gidda, Robert T. Mullen and David W. Andrews
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:835
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  7. The genus Hosta is a group of economically appreciated perennial herbs consisting of approximately 25 species that is endemic to eastern Asia. Due to considerable morphological variability, the genus has been wel...

    Authors: Soo-Rang Lee, Kyeonghee Kim, Byoung-Yoon Lee and Chae Eun Lim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:833
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  8. Machine learning can effectively nominate novel genes for various research purposes in the laboratory. On a genome-wide scale, we implemented multiple databases and algorithms to predict and prioritize the human

    Authors: Masoud Arabfard, Mina Ohadi, Vahid Rezaei Tabar, Ahmad Delbari and Kaveh Kavousi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:832
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  9. Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) blocks held in clinical laboratories are an invaluable resource for clinical research, especially in the era of personalized medicine. It is important to accurately ...

    Authors: Xiaojing Lin, Lihong Qiu, Xue Song, Junyan Hou, Weizhi Chen and Jun Zhao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:831
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  10. Similar to humans, the zebrafish brain plays a central role in regulating sexual reproduction, maturation and sexual behavior. However, systematic studies of the dimorphic patterns of gene expression in the br...

    Authors: Wenliang Yuan, Shouwen Jiang, Dan Sun, Zhichao Wu, Cai Wei, Chaoxu Dai, Linhua Jiang and Sihua Peng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:830
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  11. Scylla paramamosain is a commercially important mud crab. The microbiota is a community that inhabits the crab intestine, and is important for physiological functional and host health.

    Authors: Hongling Wei, Huan Wang, Lei Tang, Changkao Mu, Chunyu Ye, Lizhi Chen and Chunlin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:829
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  12. The merging of two divergent genomes during hybridization can result in the remodeling of parental gene expression in hybrids. A molecular basis underling expression change in hybrid is regulatory divergence, ...

    Authors: Min Zhang, Yi-Wei Tang, Ji Qi, Xin-Kai Liu, Dan-Feng Yan, Nai-Sheng Zhong, Nai-Qi Tao, Ji-Yin Gao, Yu-Guo Wang, Zhi-Ping Song, Ji Yang and Wen-Ju Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:828
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  13. Dual-purpose cattle are more adaptive to environmental challenges than single-purpose dairy or beef cattle. Balance among milk, reproductive, and mastitis resistance traits in breeding programs is therefore mo...

    Authors: Jinghang Zhou, Liyuan Liu, Chunpeng James Chen, Menghua Zhang, Xin Lu, Zhiwu Zhang, Xixia Huang and Yuangang Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:827
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  14. Upon exposure to unfavorable environmental conditions, plants need to respond quickly to maintain their homeostasis. For instance, physiological, biochemical and transcriptional changes occur during plant-path...

    Authors: Marco Tulio Solano-De la Cruz, Jacel Adame-García, Josefat Gregorio-Jorge, Verónica Jiménez-Jacinto, Leticia Vega-Alvarado, Lourdes Georgina Iglesias-Andreu, Esteban Elías Escobar-Hernández and Mauricio Luna-Rodríguez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:826
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  15. 5-Azacytidine (5-azaC) promotes the development of ‘Kyoho’ grape berry but the associated changes in gene expression have not been reported. In this study, we performed transcriptome analysis of grape berry at...

    Authors: Da-Long Guo, Qiong Li, Xiao-Ru Ji, Zhen-Guang Wang and Yi-He Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:825
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  16. Alternative polyadenylation is commonly examined using cDNA sequencing, which is known to be affected by template-switching artifacts. However, the effects of such template-switching artifacts on alternative p...

    Authors: Zsolt Balázs, Dóra Tombácz, Zsolt Csabai, Norbert Moldován, Michael Snyder and Zsolt Boldogkői
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:824
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  17. As one of the most described epigenetic marks in human cancers, DNA methylation plays essential roles in gene expression regulation and has been implicated in the prognosis and therapeutics of many cancers. We...

    Authors: Xiao Chen, Jianying Zhang and Xiaofeng Dai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:823
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  18. The enhancing incidence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP)-mediated infections in Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University in 2017 is the motivation behind this investigation...

    Authors: Xiaoling Yu, Wen Zhang, Zhiping Zhao, Chengsong Ye, Shuyan Zhou, Shaogui Wu, Lifen Han, Zhaofang Han and Hanhui Ye
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:822
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  19. At sexual maturity, the liver of laying hens undergoes many metabolic changes to support vitellogenesis. In published transcriptomic approaches, hundreds of genes were reported to be overexpressed in laying he...

    Authors: Audrey Gloux, Michel J. Duclos, Aurélien Brionne, Marie Bourin, Yves Nys and Sophie Réhault-Godbert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:821
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  20. The lucinid clam Loripes orbiculatus lives in a nutritional symbiosis with sulphur-oxidizing bacteria housed in its gills. Although our understanding of the lucinid endosymbiont physiology and metabolism has made...

    Authors: Benedict Yuen, Julia Polzin and Jillian M. Petersen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:820
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  21. The brain plays a critical role in upstream regulation of processes central to mating effort, parental effort, and self-maintenance. For seasonally breeding animals, the brain is likely mediating trade-offs am...

    Authors: Alexandra B. Bentz, Douglas B. Rusch, Aaron Buechlein and Kimberly A. Rosvall
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:819
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  23. Internode elongation is one of the most important traits in sugarcane because of its relation to crop productivity. Understanding the microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA expression profiles related to sugarcane internod...

    Authors: Lihang Qiu, Rongfa Chen, Yegeng Fan, Xing Huang, Hanmin Luo, Faqian Xiong, Junxian Liu, Ronghua Zhang, Jingchao Lei, Huiwen Zhou, Jianming Wu and Yangrui Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:817
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  24. The Djallonke sheep is well adapted to harsh environmental conditions, and is relatively resistant to Haemonchosis and resilient to animal trypanosomiasis. The larger Sahelian sheep, which cohabit the same reg...

    Authors: M. Yaro, K. A. Munyard, E. Morgan, R. J. N. Allcock, M. J. Stear and D. M. Groth
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:816
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  25. The study of the mechanisms controlling wound healing is an attractive area within the field of biology, with it having a potentially significant impact on the health sector given the current medical burden as...

    Authors: Pavel Abaffy, Silvie Tomankova, Ravindra Naraine, Mikael Kubista and Radek Sindelka
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:815
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  26. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is a public health issue related to food safety, and its adaptation to animal sources remains poorly described at the pangenome scale. Firstly, serovars presenting potential mo...

    Authors: Meryl Vila Nova, Kévin Durimel, Kévin La, Arnaud Felten, Philippe Bessières, Michel-Yves Mistou, Mahendra Mariadassou and Nicolas Radomski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:814
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  27. Nsa cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a novel alloplasmic male sterility system derived from somatic hybridization between Brassica napus and Sinapis arvensis. Identification of the CMS-associated gene is a pre...

    Authors: Shi-Fei Sang, De-Sheng Mei, Jia Liu, Qamar U. Zaman, Hai-Yan Zhang, Meng-Yu Hao, Li Fu, Hui Wang, Hong-Tao Cheng and Qiong Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:813
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  28. Coffee production relies on plantations with varieties from Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora species. The first, the most representative in terms of coffee consumption, is mostly propagated by seeds, which lea...

    Authors: Renan Terassi Pinto, Natália Chagas Freitas, Wesley Pires Flausino Máximo, Thiago Bergamo Cardoso, Débora de Oliveira Prudente and Luciano Vilela Paiva
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:812
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  29. Drought stress is a major limiting factor of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production around the world. Soybean plants can ameliorate this stress with improved water-saving, sustained N2 fixation during water ...

    Authors: Clinton J. Steketee, Thomas R. Sinclair, Mandeep K. Riar, William T. Schapaugh and Zenglu Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:811
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  30. Brassinosteroids (BRs) have a positive effect on many processes during plant growth and development, and in response to various abiotic stressors. Low-temperature (LT) stress constricts the geographic distribu...

    Authors: Mengru Zhao, Lingyun Yuan, Jie Wang, Shilei Xie, Yushan Zheng, Libing Nie, Shidong Zhu, Jinfeng Hou, Guohu Chen and Chenggang Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:810
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  31. Resistance genes composing the two-layer immune system of plants are thought as important markers for breeding pathogen-resistant crops. Many have been the attempts to establish relationships between the genom...

    Authors: Hugo V. S. Rody, Renato G. H. Bombardelli, Silvana Creste, Luís E. A. Camargo, Marie-Anne Van Sluys and Claudia B. Monteiro-Vitorello
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:809
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  32. The sophisticated insect olfactory system plays an important role in recognizing external odors and enabling insects to adapt to environment. Foraging, host seeking, mating, ovipositing and other forms of chem...

    Authors: Hao Yuan, Huihui Chang, Lina Zhao, Chao Yang and Yuan Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:808
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  34. Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) infection can cause acute inflammation. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in a number of biological process including inflammation response. However,...

    Authors: Xuelian Ma, Xiaomin Zhao, Kaili Wang, Xiaoyi Tang, Jianxiong Guo, Mi Mi, Yanping Qi, Lingling Chang, Yong Huang and Dewen Tong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:806
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  35. The growth of DNA biobanks linked to data from electronic health records (EHRs) has enabled the discovery of numerous associations between genomic variants and clinical phenotypes. Nonetheless, although clinic...

    Authors: Jacob J. Hughey, Seth D. Rhoades, Darwin Y. Fu, Lisa Bastarache, Joshua C. Denny and Qingxia Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:805
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  36. Stability is one of the most fundamental intrinsic characteristics of proteins and can be determined with various methods. Characterization of protein properties does not keep pace with increase in new sequenc...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Xuesong Ding, Guanchen Zhu, Abhishek Niroula, Qiang Lv and Mauno Vihinen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:804
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  37. Burkholderia cenocepacia is a human opportunistic pathogen causing devastating symptoms in patients suffering from immunodeficiency and cystic fibrosis. Out of the 303 B. cenocepacia strains with available genome...

    Authors: Adrian Wallner, Eoghan King, Eddy L. M. Ngonkeu, Lionel Moulin and Gilles Béna
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:803
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  38. Macrophomina phaseolina is a fungal plant pathogen with a broad host range, but one genotype was shown to exhibit host preference/specificity on strawberry. This pathogen lacked a high-quality genome assembly and...

    Authors: Alyssa K. Burkhardt, Kevin L. Childs, Jie Wang, Marina L. Ramon and Frank N. Martin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:802
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  39. Seed germination, the foundation of plant propagation, involves a series of changes at the molecular level. Poplar is a model woody plant, but the molecular events occurring during seed germination in this spe...

    Authors: Chunpu Qu, Hancheng Zhao, Jinyuan Chen, Zhuang Zuo, Xue Sun, Jiahuan Huang, Chengjun Yang, Xiuli Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiankui Quan, Zhiru Xu and Guanjun Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:801
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  40. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated by NADPH oxidases known as respiratory burst oxidase homologs (RBOHs) in plants. ROS regulate various cellular processes, including the mutualistic interactions betw...

    Authors: Citlali Fonseca-García, Alejandra E. Zayas, Jesús Montiel, Noreide Nava, Federico Sánchez and Carmen Quinto
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:800
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  41. Microsatellites, or simple sequence repeats (SSRs), represent important DNA variations that are widely distributed across the entire plant genome and can be used to develop SSR markers, which can then be used ...

    Authors: Qing Lu, Yanbin Hong, Shaoxiong Li, Hao Liu, Haifen Li, Jianan Zhang, Haofa Lan, Haiyan Liu, Xingyu Li, Shijie Wen, Guiyuan Zhou, Rajeev K. Varshney, Huifang Jiang, Xiaoping Chen and Xuanqiang Liang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:799
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  42. Southern stem canker (SSC), caused by Diaporthe aspalathi (E. Jansen, Castl. & Crous), is an important soybean disease that has been responsible for severe losses in the past. The main strategy for controlling th...

    Authors: João Vitor Maldonado dos Santos, Everton Geraldo Capote Ferreira, André Luiz de Lima Passianotto, Bruna Bley Brumer, Adriana Brombini Dos Santos, Rafael Moreira Soares, Davoud Torkamaneh, Carlos Alberto Arrabal Arias, François Belzile, Ricardo Vilela Abdelnoor and Francismar Corrêa Marcelino-Guimarães
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:798
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  43. In the pig production industry, artificial insemination (AI) plays an important role in enlarging the beneficial impact of elite boars. Understanding the genetic architecture and detecting genetic markers asso...

    Authors: Ning Gao, Yilong Chen, Xiaohong Liu, Yunxiang Zhao, Lin Zhu, Ali Liu, Wei Jiang, Xing Peng, Conglin Zhang, Zhenshuang Tang, Xinyun Li and Yaosheng Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:797
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  44. Clade 5 Clostridioides difficile diverges significantly from the other clades and is therefore, attracting increasing attention due its great heterogeneity. In this study, we used third-generation sequencing tech...

    Authors: Yuan Wu, Lin Yang, Wen-Ge Li, Wen Zhu Zhang, Zheng Jie Liu and Jin-Xing Lu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:796
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  45. Drought stress is one of the major factors that affects wheat yield. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a multifunctional enzyme that plays the important role in abiotic stress and plant devel...

    Authors: Lin Zhang, Zhiyong Xu, Haikun Ji, Ye Zhou and Shushen Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:795
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  46. Small ungulates (sheep and goat) display a seasonal breeding, characterised by two successive periods, sexual activity (SA) and sexual rest (SR). Odours emitted by a sexually active male can reactivate the ovu...

    Authors: Paul Cann, Malika Chabi, Aliénor Delsart, Chrystelle Le Danvic, Jean-Michel Saliou, Manon Chasles, Matthieu Keller and Patricia Nagnan-Le Meillour
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:794
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  47. Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a major cause of pulmonary and systemic disease in at-risk populations. Gaps in knowledge about transmission patterns, evolution, and pathogenicity during infection have p...

    Authors: Jennifer M. Bouso and Paul J. Planet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:793
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  48. The mitogenomes of 12 teleost fish of the bothid family (order Pleuronectiformes) indicated that the genomic-scale rearrangements characterized in previous work. A novel mechanism of genomic rearrangement call...

    Authors: Hairong Luo, Xiaoyu Kong, Shixi Chen and Wei Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:792
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  49. Some Gynura species have been reported to be natural anti-diabetic plants. Improvement of their traits towards application relies on hybridization. Clearly, phylogenetic relationships could optimize compatible hy...

    Authors: Tianyu Han, Mimi Li, Jiawei Li, Han Lv, Bingru Ren, Jian Chen and Weilin Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:791
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  50. We have previously reported on paucity of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups J and K among Finnish endurance athletes. Here we aimed to further explore differences in mtDNA variants between elite endurance ...

    Authors: Jukka Kiiskilä, Jukka S. Moilanen, Laura Kytövuori, Anna-Kaisa Niemi and Kari Majamaa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:784
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