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  1. There are large differences between the sexes at the genetic level; these differences include heterogametic sex chromosomes and/or differences in expression of genes between the sexes. In rainbow trout (Oncorhync...

    Authors: Matthew C Hale, Peng Xu, Julie Scardina, Paul A Wheeler, Gary H Thorgaard and Krista M Nichols
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:404
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  3. Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus is an important causative agent of infectious endocarditis, while the pathogenicity of this species is widely unclear. To gain insight into the pathomechanisms and t...

    Authors: Dennis Hinse, Tanja Vollmer, Christian Rückert, Jochen Blom, Jörn Kalinowski, Cornelius Knabbe and Jens Dreier
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:400
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  4. Allergic contact dermatitis is an inflammatory skin disease that affects a significant proportion of the population. This disease is caused by an adverse immune response towards chemical haptens, and leads to ...

    Authors: Henrik Johansson, Malin Lindstedt, Ann-Sofie Albrekt and Carl AK Borrebaeck
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:399
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  5. Developing a model for codon substitutions is essential for the analyses of protein sequences. Recent studies on the mutation rates in the non-coding regions have shown that CpG mutation rates in the human gen...

    Authors: Kazuharu Misawa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:397
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  6. Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. (2n = 2 × = 14) and melon, C. melo L. (2n = 2 × = 24) are two important vegetable species in the genus Cucumis (family Cucurbitaceae). Both species have an Asian origin that diverged ...

    Authors: Dawei Li, Hugo E Cuevas, Luming Yang, Yuhong Li, Jordi Garcia-Mas, Juan Zalapa, Jack E Staub, Feishi Luan, Umesh Reddy, Xiaoming He, Zhenhui Gong and Yiqun Weng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:396
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  7. Brachyspira spp. colonize the intestines of some mammalian and avian species and show different degrees of enteropathogenicity. Brachyspira intermedia can cause production losses in chickens and strain PWS/AT now...

    Authors: Therese Håfström, Désirée S Jansson and Bo Segerman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:395
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  8. The gene composition, gene order and structure of the mitochondrial genome are remarkably stable across bilaterian animals. Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are a major exception to this genomic stability in that ...

    Authors: Stephen L Cameron, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Atsushi Mizukoshi, Michael F Whiting and Kevin P Johnson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:394
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  9. Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a commercially important fruit crop that is cultivated worldwide. The melon research community has recently benefited from the determination of a complete draft genome sequence and the ...

    Authors: Daniel Gonzalez-Ibeas, José Blanca, Livia Donaire, Montserrat Saladié, Albert Mascarell-Creus, Ana Cano-Delgado, Jordi Garcia-Mas, Cesar Llave and Miguel A Aranda
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:393
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  10. The orders Ascaridida, Oxyurida, and Spirurida represent major components of zooparasitic nematode diversity, including many species of veterinary and medical importance. Phylum-wide nematode phylogenetic hypo...

    Authors: Joong-Ki Park, Tahera Sultana, Sang-Hwa Lee, Seokha Kang, Hyong Kyu Kim, Gi-Sik Min, Keeseon S Eom and Steven A Nadler
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:392
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  11. Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria has emerged in Western Cambodia. This is a major threat to global plans to control and eliminate malaria as the artemisinins are a key component of antimala...

    Authors: Sachel Mok, Mallika Imwong, Margaret J Mackinnon, Joan Sim, Ramya Ramadoss, Poravuth Yi, Mayfong Mayxay, Kesinee Chotivanich, Kek-Yee Liong, Bruce Russell, Duong Socheat, Paul N Newton, Nicholas PJ Day, Nicholas J White, Peter R Preiser, François Nosten…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:391
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  12. The yeast cell wall integrity mitogen-activated protein kinase (CWI-MAPK) pathway is the main regulator of adaptation responses to cell wall stress in yeast. Here, we adopt a genomic approach to shed light on ...

    Authors: Patricia Arias, Sonia Díez-Muñiz, Raúl García, César Nombela, José M Rodríguez-Peña and Javier Arroyo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:390
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  13. Among next generation sequence technologies, platforms such as Illumina and SOLiD produce short reads but with higher coverage and lower cost per sequenced nucleotide than 454 or Sanger. A challenge now is to ...

    Authors: Massimo Iorizzo, Douglas A Senalik, Dariusz Grzebelus, Megan Bowman, Pablo F Cavagnaro, Marta Matvienko, Hamid Ashrafi, Allen Van Deynze and Philipp W Simon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:389
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  14. The G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) belong to the largest superfamily of integral cell membrane proteins and play crucial roles in physiological processes including behavior, development and reproduction. ...

    Authors: Hua Bai, Fang Zhu, Kapil Shah and Subba Reddy Palli
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:388
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  15. In rice, the major part of the post-embryonic root system is made of stem-derived roots named crown roots (CR). Among the few characterized rice mutants affected in root development, crown rootless1 mutant is una...

    Authors: Yoan Coudert, Martine Bès, Thi Van Anh Le, Martial Pré, Emmanuel Guiderdoni and Pascal Gantet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:387
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  16. The Apiaceae family includes several vegetable and spice crop species among which carrot is the most economically important member, with ~21 million tons produced yearly worldwide. Despite its importance, mole...

    Authors: Pablo F Cavagnaro, Sang-Min Chung, Sylvie Manin, Mehtap Yildiz, Aamir Ali, Maria S Alessandro, Massimo Iorizzo, Douglas A Senalik and Philipp W Simon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:386
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  17. Sigma-54 is a central regulator in many pathogenic bacteria and has been linked to a multitude of cellular processes like nitrogen assimilation and important functional traits such as motility, virulence, and ...

    Authors: Christof Francke, Tom Groot Kormelink, Yanick Hagemeijer, Lex Overmars, Vincent Sluijter, Roy Moezelaar and Roland J Siezen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:385
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  18. Fluctuations in temperature occur naturally during plant growth and reproduction. However, in the hot summers this variation may become stressful and damaging for the molecular mechanisms involved in proper ce...

    Authors: Craita E Bita, Sara Zenoni, Wim H Vriezen, Celestina Mariani, Mario Pezzotti and Tom Gerats
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:384
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  19. Corynebacterium ulcerans has been detected as a commensal in domestic and wild animals that may serve as reservoirs for zoonotic infections. During the last decade, the frequency and severity of human infections ...

    Authors: Eva Trost, Arwa Al-Dilaimi, Panagiotis Papavasiliou, Jessica Schneider, Prisca Viehoever, Andreas Burkovski, Siomar C Soares, Sintia S Almeida, Fernanda A Dorella, Anderson Miyoshi, Vasco Azevedo, Maria P Schneider, Artur Silva, Cíntia S Santos, Louisy S Santos, Priscila Sabbadini…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:383
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  21. The R locus controls the color of pigmented soybean (Glycine max) seeds. However information about its control over seed coat biochemistry and gene expressions remains limited. The seed coats of nearly-isogenic b...

    Authors: Nik Kovinich, Ammar Saleem, John T Arnason and Brian Miki
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:381
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  22. Triticale is adapted to a wide range of abiotic stress conditions, is an important high-quality feed stock and produces similar grain yield but more biomass compared to other crops. Modern genomic approaches a...

    Authors: Katharina V Alheit, Jochen C Reif, Hans Peter Maurer, Volker Hahn, Elmar A Weissmann, Thomas Miedaner and Tobias Würschum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:380
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  23. BAC-based physical maps provide for sequencing across an entire genome or a selected sub-genomic region of biological interest. Such a region can be approached with next-generation whole-genome sequencing and ...

    Authors: Frank A Feltus, Christopher A Saski, Keithanne Mockaitis, Niina Haiminen, Laxmi Parida, Zachary Smith, James Ford, Margaret E Staton, Stephen P Ficklin, Barbara P Blackmon, Chun-Huai Cheng, Raymond J Schnell, David N Kuhn and Juan-Carlos Motamayor
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:379
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  24. Newly microarray technologies yield large-scale datasets. The microarray datasets are usually presented in 2D matrices, where rows represent genes and columns represent experimental conditions. Systematic anal...

    Authors: Junwan Liu, Zhoujun Li, Xiaohua Hu, Yiming Chen and EK Park
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S11
    Content type: Proceedings Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  25. CpG islands are important regions in DNA. They usually appear at the 5’ end of genes containing GC-rich dinucleotides. When DNA methylation occurs, gene regulation is affected and it sometimes leads to carcino...

    Authors: Leah Spontaneo and Nick Cercone
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S10
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  26. Detecting epistatic interactions plays a significant role in improving pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of complex human diseases. A recent study in automatic detection of epistatic interactio...

    Authors: Bing Han and Xue-wen Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S9
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  27. Metagenomic assembly is a challenging problem due to the presence of genetic material from multiple organisms. The problem becomes even more difficult when short reads produced by next generation sequencing te...

    Authors: Anveshi Charuvaka and Huzefa Rangwala
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S8
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  28. Genomic read alignment involves mapping (exactly or approximately) short reads from a particular individual onto a pre-sequenced reference genome of the same species. Because all individuals of the same specie...

    Authors: M Oğuzhan Külekci, Wing-Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Jeffrey Scott Vitter and Bojian Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  29. There is a large amount of inconsistency in gene structure annotations of bacterial strains. This inconsistency is a frustrating impedance to effective comparative genomic analysis of bacterial strains in prom...

    Authors: Michal Wozniak, Limsoon Wong and Jerzy Tiuryn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S6
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  30. Analysing gene expression data from microarray technologies is a very important task in biology and medicine, and particularly in cancer diagnosis. Different from most other popular methods in high dimensional...

    Authors: Zhenyu Wang and Vasile Palade
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  31. A major goal of metagenomics is to characterize the microbial composition of an environment. The most popular approach relies on 16S rRNA sequencing, however this approach can generate biased estimates due to ...

    Authors: Bo Liu, Theodore Gibbons, Mohammad Ghodsi, Todd Treangen and Mihai Pop
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  32. Reassortments are events in the evolution of the genome of influenza (flu), whereby segments of the genome are exchanged between different strains. As reassortments have been implicated in major human pandemic...

    Authors: Alisa Yurovsky and Bernard M E Moret
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  33. Proximity-based methods and co-evolution-based phylogenetic profiles methods have been successfully used for the identification of functionally related genes. Proximity-based methods are effective for physical...

    Authors: Vikas Rao Pejaver and Sun Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  34. Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) can be classified into major lineages based on their genotype. Further subdivision of major lineages into sublineages requires multiple biomarkers along with m...

    Authors: Cagri Ozcaglar, Amina Shabbeer, Scott Vandenberg, Bülent Yener and Kristin P Bennett
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  35. KRAB-ZFPs (Krüppel-associated box domain-zinc finger proteins) are vertebrate-restricted transcriptional repressors encoded in the hundreds by the mouse and human genomes. They act via an essential cofactor, K...

    Authors: Sylvain Meylan, Anna C Groner, Giovanna Ambrosini, Nirav Malani, Simon Quenneville, Nadine Zangger, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Jacques Rougemont, Angela Ciuffi, Frederic D Bushman, Philipp Bucher and Didier Trono
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:378
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  36. In standard BLAST searches, no information other than the sequences of the query and the database entries is considered. However, in situations where two genes from different species have only borderline simil...

    Authors: Seán S ÓhÉigeartaigh, David Armisén, Kevin P Byrne and Kenneth H Wolfe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:377
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  37. The genus Silene is widely used as a model system for addressing ecological and evolutionary questions in plants, but advances in using the genus as a model system are impeded by the lack of available resources f...

    Authors: Nicolas Blavet, Delphine Charif, Christine Oger-Desfeux, Gabriel AB Marais and Alex Widmer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:376
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  38. Recent studies have demonstrated the genetic significance of insertions, deletions, and other more complex structural variants (SVs) in the human population. With the development of the next-generation sequenc...

    Authors: Zhengdong D Zhang, Jiang Du, Hugo Lam, Alex Abyzov, Alexander E Urban, Michael Snyder and Mark Gerstein
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:375
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  40. Burkholderia cenocepacia is a member of the Burkholderia cepacia complex group of bacteria that cause infections in individuals with cystic fibrosis. B. cenocepacia isolate J2315 has been genome sequenced and is ...

    Authors: Andrea Sass, Angela Marchbank, Elizabeth Tullis, John J LiPuma and Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:373
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  41. Copy number variations (CNVs) can create new genes, change gene dosage, reshape gene structures, and modify elements regulating gene expression. As with all types of genetic variation, CNVs may influence pheno...

    Authors: Ping Yu, Caihong Wang, Qun Xu, Yue Feng, Xiaoping Yuan, Hanyong Yu, Yiping Wang, Shengxiang Tang and Xinghua Wei
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:372
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  43. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) is one of the most widely distributed and ecologically important shrub species in western North America. This species serves as a critical habitat and food resource for many a...

    Authors: Prabin Bajgain, Bryce A Richardson, Jared C Price, Richard C Cronn and Joshua A Udall
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:370
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  44. Switchgrass, a C4 species and a warm-season grass native to the prairies of North America, has been targeted for development into an herbaceous biomass fuel crop. Genetic improvement of switchgrass feedstock t...

    Authors: Christopher A Saski, Zhigang Li, Frank A Feltus and Hong Luo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:369
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  45. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant source of genetic variation among individuals of a species. New genotyping technologies allow examining hundreds to thousands of SNPs in a single re...

    Authors: Emilie Chancerel, Camille Lepoittevin, Grégoire Le Provost, Yao-Cheng Lin, Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Correa, Andrew J Eckert, Jill L Wegrzyn, Diana Zelenika, Anne Boland, Jean-Marc Frigerio, Philippe Chaumeil, Pauline Garnier-Géré, Christophe Boury, Delphine Grivet, Santiago C González-Martínez, Pierre Rouzé…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:368
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  46. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, endogenous RNAs that play important regulatory roles in development and stress response in plants by negatively affecting gene expression post-transcriptionally. Identification of...

    Authors: Tianzuo Wang, Lei Chen, Mingui Zhao, Qiuying Tian and Wen-Hao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:367
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  47. Pinus pinaster is an economically and ecologically important species that is becoming a woody gymnosperm model. Its enormous genome size makes whole-genome sequencing approaches are hard to apply. Therefore, the ...

    Authors: Noé Fernández-Pozo, Javier Canales, Darío Guerrero-Fernández, David P Villalobos, Sara M Díaz-Moreno, Rocío Bautista, Arantxa Flores-Monterroso, M Ángeles Guevara, Pedro Perdiguero, Carmen Collada, M Teresa Cervera, Álvaro Soto, Ricardo Ordás, Francisco R Cantón, Concepción Avila, Francisco M Cánovas…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:366
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  48. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor (TF) that mediates responses to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Integration of TCDD-induced genome-wide AhR enrichment, d...

    Authors: Edward Dere, Raymond Lo, Trine Celius, Jason Matthews and Timothy R Zacharewski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:365
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  49. Understanding animal development and physiology at a molecular-biological level has been advanced by the ability to determine at high resolution the repertoire of mRNA molecules by whole transcriptome resequen...

    Authors: Peter L Chang, Joseph P Dunham, Sergey V Nuzhdin and Michelle N Arbeitman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:364
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  50. Amaranthus hypochondriacus, a grain amaranth, is a C4 plant noted by its ability to tolerate stressful conditions and produce highly nutritious seeds. These possess an optimal amino acid balance and constitute a ...

    Authors: John P Délano-Frier, Hamlet Avilés-Arnaut, Kena Casarrubias-Castillo, Gabriela Casique-Arroyo, Paula A Castrillón-Arbeláez, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Julio Massange-Sánchez, Norma A Martínez-Gallardo, Fannie I Parra-Cota, Erandi Vargas-Ortiz and María G Estrada-Hernández
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:363
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