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Swine brucellosis caused by B. suis biovar 2 is an emergent disease in domestic pigs in Europe. The emergence of this pathogen has been linked to the increase of extensive pig farms and the high density of infect...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:726
Published on: 12 September 2017
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders in the world. Studying PD from systems biology perspective involving genes and their regulators might provide deeper insights i...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:721
Published on: 12 September 2017
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Uncovering mechanisms of epigenome evolution is an essential step towards understanding the evolution of different cellular phenotypes. While studies have confirmed DNA methylation as a conserved epigenetic me...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:724
Published on: 12 September 2017
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Expansions of gene families are predictive for ongoing genetic adaptation to environmental cues. We describe such an expansion of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family in certain bat families. Members of...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:717
Published on: 11 September 2017
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The current chassis organisms or various types of cell factories have considerable advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is necessary to develop various chassis for an efficient production of different b...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:715
Published on: 11 September 2017
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The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas is an important marine fishery resource, which contains high levels of glycogen that contributes to the flavor and the quality of the oyster. However, little is known about th...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:713
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a method that models gene expression data as an action of a set of statistically independent hidden factors. The output of ICA depends on a fundamental parameter: the nu...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:712
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Stegodyphus mimosarum is a candidate model organism belonging to the class Arachnida in the phylum Arthropoda. Studies on the biology of S. mimosarum over the past several decades have...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:716
Published on: 11 September 2017
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The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathway has been well-characterized as a crucial signal transduction cascade that regulates vital biological responses including dev...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:718
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Pancreatic β-cells require a constant supply of zinc to maintain normal insulin secretory function. Following co-exocytosis with insulin, zinc is replenished via the Zrt- and Irt-like (ZIP; SLC39A) family of tran...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:719
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Scleractinian corals are a vital component of coral reef ecosystems, and of significant cultural and economic value worldwide. As anthropogenic and natural stressors are contributing to a global decline of cor...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:710
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Oogenesis in the domestic silkworm (Bombyx mori) is a complex process involving previtellogenesis, vitellogenesis and choriogenesis. During this process, follicles show drastic morphological and physiological cha...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:714
Published on: 11 September 2017
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs that play versatile roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Although much is known about their biogenesis, and gene regulation very little is known about their evo...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:711
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Landrace farmers are the keepers of crops locally adapted to the environments where they are cultivated. Patterns of diversity across the genome can provide signals of past evolution in the face of abiotic and...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:707
Published on: 8 September 2017
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Severe equine asthma is a naturally occurring lung inflammatory disease of mature animals characterized by neutrophilic inflammation, bronchoconstriction, mucus hypersecretion and airway remodeling. Exacerbati...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:708
Published on: 8 September 2017
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Due to the limited availability and high cost of fish oil in the face of increasing aquaculture production, there is a need to reduce usage of fish oil in aquafeeds without compromising farm fish health. There...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:706
Published on: 8 September 2017
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How to develop new cotton varieties possessing high yield traits of Upland cotton and superior fiber quality traits of Sea Island cotton remains a key task for cotton breeders and researchers. While multiple a...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:705
Published on: 8 September 2017
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BMC Genomics 2017 18:704
Published on: 8 September 2017
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Insect mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) exhibit high diversity in some lineages. The gene rearrangement and large intergenic spacer (IGS) have been reported in several Coleopteran species, although very lit...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:698
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Zinc finger homeodomain proteins (ZHD) constitute a plant-specific transcription factor family with a conserved DNA binding homeodomain and a zinc finger motif. Members of the ZHD protein family play important...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:695
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Efficient use of feed resources for farm animals is a critical concern in animal husbandry. Numerous genetic and nutritional studies have been conducted to investigate feed efficiency during the regular laying...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:699
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Ion homeostasis is an essential property of living organisms. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal model organism to investigate ion homeostasis at all levels. In this yeast genes involved in high-affin...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:701
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Neutrophils are traditionally considered transcriptionally inactive. Compared to other immune cells, little is known about their transcriptional profile during interaction with pathogens.
BMC Genomics 2017 18:696
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Harboring foregut microbial communities is considered a key innovation that allows herbivorous mammals to colonize new ecological niches. However, the functions of these chambers have only been well studied at...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:697
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Maize was originally domesticated in a tropical environment but is now widely cultivated at temperate latitudes. Temperate and tropical maize populations have diverged both genotypically and phenotypically. Tr...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:702
Published on: 6 September 2017
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