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  1. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array technology has been increasingly used to generate large quantities of SNP data for use in genetic studies. As new arrays are developed to take advantage of new techno...

    Authors: Nicholas P. Howard, Michela Troggio, Charles-Eric Durel, Hélène Muranty, Caroline Denancé, Luca Bianco, John Tillman and Eric van de Weg

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:246

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  2. Spiroplasma is a widely distributed endosymbiont of insects, arthropods, and plants. In insects, Spiroplasma colonizes the gut, hemolymph, and reproductive organs of the host. Previous metagenomic surveys of the ...

    Authors: Arturo Vera-Ponce León, Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, Rafael Bustamante-Brito, Víctor Higareda-Alvear, Mónica Rosenblueth and Esperanza Martínez-Romero

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:240

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  3. Callithrix marmosets are a relatively young primate radiation, whose phylogeny is not yet fully resolved. These primates are naturally para- and allopatric, but three species with highly invasive potential have b...

    Authors: Joanna Malukiewicz, Reed A. Cartwright, Nelson H. A. Curi, Jorge A. Dergam, Claudia S. Igayara, Silvia B. Moreira, Camila V. Molina, Patricia A. Nicola, Angela Noll, Marcello Passamani, Luiz C. M. Pereira, Alcides Pissinatti, Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda, Daniel L. Silva, Anne C. Stone, Dietmar Zinner…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:239

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  4. The behavior of cells in vivo is complex and highly dynamic, as it results from an interplay between intercellular matrix proteins with surface receptors and other microenvironmental cues. Although the effects...

    Authors: Souvik Ghosh, Anastasiya Börsch, Shreemoyee Ghosh and Mihaela Zavolan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:238

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  5. Colossoma macropomum (tambaqui) and Piaractus mesopotamicus (pacu) are good fish species for aquaculture. The tambacu, individuals originating from the induced hybridization of the female tambaqui with the male p...

    Authors: Bruno E. A. Fantinatti, Erika S. Perez, Bruna T. T. Zanella, Jéssica S. Valente, Tassiana G. de Paula, Edson A. Mareco, Robson F. Carvalho, Silvano Piazza, Michela A. Denti and Maeli Dal-Pai-Silva

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:237

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  6. Vernalization is a type of low temperature stress used to promote rapid bolting and flowering in plants. Although rapid bolting and flowering promote the reproduction of Chinese cabbages (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pe...

    Authors: Yun Dai, Xiao Sun, Chenggang Wang, Fei Li, Shifan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Guoliang Li, Lingyun Yuan, Guohu Chen, Rifei Sun and Shujiang Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:236

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  8. For multicellular organisms, much remains unknown about the dynamics of synonymous codon and amino acid use in highly expressed genes, including whether their use varies with expression in different tissue typ...

    Authors: Carrie A. Whittle, Arpita Kulkarni, Nina Chung and Cassandra G. Extavour

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:234

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  9. Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum Desf. Husn) is the main staple crop used to make pasta products worldwide. Under the current climate change scenarios, genetic variability within a crop plays a crucia...

    Authors: Pablo Federico Roncallo, Adelina Olga Larsen, Ana Laura Achilli, Carolina Saint Pierre, Cristian Andrés Gallo, Susanne Dreisigacker and Viviana Echenique

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:233

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  10. A body distribution with high intramuscular fat and low abdominal fat is the ideal goal for broiler breeding. Preadipocytes with different origins have differences in terms of metabolism and gene expression. T...

    Authors: Zheng Ma, Na Luo, Lu Liu, Huanxian Cui, Jing Li, Hai Xiang, Huimin Kang, Hua Li and Guiping Zhao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:232

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  11. Commelinaceae (Commelinales) comprise 41 genera and are widely distributed in both the Old and New Worlds, except in Europe. The relationships among genera in this family have been suggested in several morphol...

    Authors: Joonhyung Jung, Changkyun Kim and Joo-Hwan Kim

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:231

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  12. The Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus is an important amphibian species in China because of its increasing economic value, protection status and special evolutionary position from aquatic to terrestrial...

    Authors: Qiaomu Hu, Yang Liu, Xiaolin Liao, Haifeng Tian, Xiangshan Ji, Jiajie Zhu and Hanbing Xiao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:230

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  13. Olive orchards are threatened by a wide range of pathogens. Of these, Verticillium dahliae has been in the spotlight for its high incidence, the difficulty to control it and the few cultivars that has increased t...

    Authors: Jorge A. Ramírez-Tejero, Jaime Jiménez-Ruiz, Alicia Serrano, Angjelina Belaj, Lorenzo León, Raúl de la Rosa, Jesús Mercado-Blanco and Francisco Luque

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:229

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  14. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a riddle of morphology, making it hard to tell whether it is an ursid, a procyonid, a mustelid, or a member of its own family. Previous genetic studies have given quite contradi...

    Authors: Matyas Cserhati

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:228

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  15. Barley is one of the founder crops of Neolithic agriculture and is among the most-grown cereals today. The only trait that universally differentiates the cultivated and wild subspecies is ‘non-brittleness’ of ...

    Authors: Peter Civáň, Konstantina Drosou, David Armisen-Gimenez, Wandrille Duchemin, Jérôme Salse and Terence A. Brown

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:227

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  16. Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) belong to non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons, which can mobilize dependent on the help of counterpart long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs). Al...

    Authors: Guangjie Han, Nan Zhang, Heng Jiang, Xiangkun Meng, Kun Qian, Yang Zheng, Jian Xu and Jianjun Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:226

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  17. Cattle are ideally suited to investigate the genetics of male fertility. Semen from individual bulls is used for thousands of artificial inseminations for which the fertilization success is monitored. Results ...

    Authors: Maya Hiltpold, Naveen Kumar Kadri, Fredi Janett, Ulrich Witschi, Fritz Schmitz-Hsu and Hubert Pausch

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:225

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  18. Understanding viral infection of the olfactory epithelium is essential because the olfactory nerve is an important route of entry for viruses to the central nervous system. Specialized chemosensory epithelial ...

    Authors: B. Dnate’ Baxter, Eric D. Larson, Laetitia Merle, Paul Feinstein, Arianna Gentile Polese, Andrew N. Bubak, Christy S. Niemeyer, James Hassell Jr, Doug Shepherd, Vijay R. Ramakrishnan, Maria A. Nagel and Diego Restrepo

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:224

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  20. The larvacean Oikopleura dioica is an abundant tunicate plankton with the smallest (65–70 Mbp) non-parasitic, non-extremophile animal genome identified to date. Currently, there are two genomes available for the ...

    Authors: Aleksandra Bliznina, Aki Masunaga, Michael J. Mansfield, Yongkai Tan, Andrew W. Liu, Charlotte West, Tanmay Rustagi, Hsiao-Chiao Chien, Saurabh Kumar, Julien Pichon, Charles Plessy and Nicholas M. Luscombe

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:222

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  21. B-box (BBX) zinc-finger transcription factors play important roles in plant growth, development, and stress response. Although these proteins have been studied in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana or Oryz...

    Authors: Xiuming Zhang, Li Zhang, Miaomiao Ji, Yifei Wu, Songlin Zhang, Yanxun Zhu, Jin Yao, Zhi Li, Hua Gao and Xiping Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:221

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  25. Many recent studies have shown that miRNAs play important roles in the regulation of animal reproduction, including seasonal reproduction. The pineal gland is a crucial hub in the regulation of seasonal reprod...

    Authors: Ran Di, Qiu-Yue Liu, Shu-Hui Song, Dong-Mei Tian, Jian-Ning He, Ying Ge, Xiang-Yu Wang, Wen-Ping Hu, Joram-Mwashigadi Mwacharo, Zhang-Yuan Pan, Jian-Dong Wang, Qing Ma, Gui-Ling Cao, Hui-Hui Jin, Xiao-Jun Liang and Ming-Xing Chu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:217

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  27. While leeches in the genus Hirudo have long been models for neurobiology, the molecular underpinnings of nervous system structure and function in this group remain largely unknown. To begin to bridge this gap, we...

    Authors: Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, Shinja Yoo, Christopher Winchell, Maurizio Pellegrino, James Angstadt, Veronica B. Lammardo, Diana Bautista, Francisco F. De-Miguel and David Weisblat

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:215

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  29. In addition to their well characterized role in cellular energy production, new evidence has revealed the involvement of mitochondria in diverse signaling pathways that regulate a broad array of cellular funct...

    Authors: John C. Santiago, Joan M. Boylan, Faye A. Lemieux, Philip A. Gruppuso, Jennifer A. Sanders and David M. Rand

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:213

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  30. While nuclear transcription and RNA processing and localization are well established for protein coding genes (PCGs), these processes are poorly understood for long non-coding (lnc)RNAs. Here, we characterize ...

    Authors: Christine N. Goldfarb and David J. Waxman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:212

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  31. Early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease (EOfAD) is promoted by dominant mutations, enabling the study of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenic mechanisms through generation of EOfAD-like mutations in animal mod...

    Authors: Yang Dong, Morgan Newman, Stephen M. Pederson, Karissa Barthelson, Nhi Hin and Michael Lardelli

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:211

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  32. Safety issues of probiotic products have been reported frequently in recent years. Ten bacterial strains isolated from seven commercial probiotic products on market were evaluated for their safety, by whole-ge...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Qian Liang, Bian Lu, Hong Shen, Shuyan Liu, Ya Shi, Sebastian Leptihn, Hong Li, Jin Wei, Chengzhi Liu, Hailong Xiao, Xiaoling Zheng, Chao Liu and Huan Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:210

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  33. There is a dearth of sequenced and closed microbial genomes from environments that exceed > 500 m below level terrestrial surface. Coupled with even fewer cultured isolates, study and understanding of how life...

    Authors: Trevor R. Murphy, Rui Xiao and Scott D. Hamilton-Brehm

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:209

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  37. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated transcriptional interference (CRISPRi) enables programmable gene knock-down, yielding loss-of-function phenotypes for nearly any gene. Effective, inducible CRISPRi has been demonstrated in...

    Authors: Nicholas J. McGlincy, Zuriah A. Meacham, Kendra K. Reynaud, Ryan Muller, Rachel Baum and Nicholas T. Ingolia

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:205

    Content type: Methodology article

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  38. Variation in locomotor capacity among animals often reflects adaptations to different environments. Despite evidence that physical performance is heritable, the molecular basis of locomotor performance and per...

    Authors: Valérie Ducret, Adam J. Richards, Mathieu Videlier, Thibault Scalvenzi, Karen A. Moore, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Camille Bonneaud, Nicolas Pollet and Anthony Herrel

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:204

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  39. Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) has various labile sex types, and studying its sex differentiation can improve breeding efficiency. However, studies on sexual regulation patterns in persimmon have focused mainl...

    Authors: Huawei Li, Liyuan Wang, Yini Mai, Weijuan Han, Yujing Suo, Songfeng Diao, Peng Sun and Jianmin Fu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:203

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  40. Cotton fiber is a model system for studying plant cell development. At present, the functions of many transcription factors in cotton fiber development have been elucidated, however, the roles of auxin respons...

    Authors: Xiufang Zhang, Junfeng Cao, Chaochen Huang, Zishou Zheng, Xia Liu, Xiaoxia Shangguan, Lingjian Wang, Yugao Zhang and Zhiwen Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:202

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  41. Datura stramonium (Jimsonweed) is a medicinally and pharmaceutically important plant in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) known for its production of various toxic, hallucinogenic, and therapeutic tropane alkalo...

    Authors: Alex Rajewski, Derreck Carter-House, Jason Stajich and Amy Litt

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:201

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  42. Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cultures are frequently infected by Vibrio vulnificus, causing major economic losses to production units. Previously, tilapia expressing recombinant delta-5 desaturase and delta-6 ...

    Authors: Pin-Yang Tu, Shin-Jie Huang, Venugopal Rajanbabu, Jen-Leih Wu and Jyh-Yih Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:200

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  43. The red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii is a freshwater species that possesses high adaptability, environmental tolerance, and fecundity. P. clarkii is artificially farmed on a large scale in China. However, t...

    Authors: Yizhi Zhong, Wenbin Zhao, Zhangsheng Tang, Liming Huang, Xiangxing Zhu, Xiang Liang, Aifen Yan, Zhifa Lu, Yanling Yu, Dongsheng Tang, Dapeng Wang and Zhuanling Lu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:199

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  44. Lineage-specific gene expansions represent one of the driving forces in the evolutionary dynamics of unique phylum traits. Myxozoa, a cnidarian subphylum of obligate parasites, are evolutionarily altered and h...

    Authors: Jiří Kyslík, Anush Kosakyan, Serafim Nenarokov, Astrid S. Holzer and Ivan Fiala

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:198

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  45. Low pass sequencing has been proposed as a cost-effective alternative to genotyping arrays to identify genetic variants that influence multifactorial traits in humans. For common diseases this typically has re...

    Authors: Kaja Wasik, Tomaz Berisa, Joseph K. Pickrell, Jeremiah H. Li, Dana J. Fraser, Karen King and Charles Cox

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:197

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  46. MicroRNAs play an important role in many fundamental biological and pathological processes. Defining the microRNAs profile underlying the processes by beneficial and detrimental lifestyles, including caloric r...

    Authors: Huan Gong, Ming Zhang, Yiwen Han, Ying Zhang, Jing Pang, Yanyang Zhao, Beidong Chen, Wei Wu, Ruomei Qi and Tiemei Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:196

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  47. The technology of single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has gained massively in popularity as it allows unprecedented insights into cellular heterogeneity as well as identification and characterization of (su...

    Authors: Andreas Hoek, Katharina Maibach, Ebru Özmen, Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz, Jan Philipp Mengel, Torsten Hain, Susanne Herold and Alexander Goesmann

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:195

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  48. Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) is a member of subfamily Phaseolinae belonging to the family Leguminosae and an important source of plant proteins for the human diet. As we all know, lima beans have important ec...

    Authors: Shoubo Tian, Panling Lu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jian Qiang Wu, Hui Zhang and Haibin Shen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:194

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  49. The effect of heat stress on livestock production is a worldwide issue. Animal performance is influenced by exposure to harsh environmental conditions potentially causing genotype-by-environment interactions (...

    Authors: Rui Shi, Luiz Fernando Brito, Aoxing Liu, Hanpeng Luo, Ziwei Chen, Lin Liu, Gang Guo, Herman Mulder, Bart Ducro, Aart van der Linden and Yachun Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:193

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  50. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) emerge as compatible alternatives to conventional insecticides in controlling Holotrichia parallela larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). However, the immune responses of H. paralle...

    Authors: Ertao Li, Jianhui Qin, Honglin Feng, Jinqiao Li, Xiaofeng Li, Innocent Nyamwasa, Yazhong Cao, Weibin Ruan, Kebin Li and Jiao Yin

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:192

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