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  3. Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains has shown divergence into two distinct lineages, lineages I and II, that appear to have distinct ecological characteristics, with lineage I strains more common...

    Authors: Yongxiang Zhang, Chad Laing, Marina Steele, Kim Ziebell, Roger Johnson, Andrew K Benson, Eduardo Taboada and Victor PJ Gannon

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:121

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  4. White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral disease that affects most of the commercially important shrimps and causes serious economic losses to the shrimp farming industry worldwide. However, little information is ...

    Authors: Jiann-Horng Leu, Chih-Chin Chang, Jin-Lu Wu, Chun-Wei Hsu, Ikuo Hirono, Takashi Aoki, Hsueh-Fen Juan, Chu-Fang Lo, Guang-Hsiung Kou and Hsuan-Cheng Huang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:120

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  5. Scorpions like other venomous animals posses a highly specialized organ that produces, secretes and disposes the venom components. In these animals, the last postabdominal segment, named telson, contains a pai...

    Authors: Elisabeth F Schwartz, Elia Diego-Garcia, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega and Lourival D Possani

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:119

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  6. The western African clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis is an anuran amphibian species now used as model in vertebrate comparative genomics. It provides the same advantages as Xenopus laevis but is diploid and has a s...

    Authors: Ana C Fierro, Raphaël Thuret, Laurent Coen, Muriel Perron, Barbara A Demeneix, Maurice Wegnez, Gabor Gyapay, Jean Weissenbach, Patrick Wincker, André Mazabraud and Nicolas Pollet

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:118

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  7. Cell lines have been used to study cancer for decades, but truly quantitative assessment of their performance as models is often lacking. We used gene expression profiling to quantitatively assess the gene exp...

    Authors: Mark W Carlson, Vishwanath R Iyer and Edward M Marcotte

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:117

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Gene knockouts are a critical resource for functional genomics. In Arabidopsis, comprehensive knockout collections were generated by amplifying and sequencing genomic DNA flanking insertion mutants. These Flan...

    Authors: A Mark Settles, David R Holding, Bao Cai Tan, Susan P Latshaw, Juan Liu, Masaharu Suzuki, Li Li, Brent A O'Brien, Diego S Fajardo, Ewa Wroclawska, Chi-Wah Tseung, Jinsheng Lai, Charles T Hunter III, Wayne T Avigne, John Baier, Joachim Messing…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:116

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  9. Mimivirus isolated from A. polyphaga is the largest virus discovered so far. It is unique among all the viruses in having genes related to translation, DNA repair and replication which bear close homology to euka...

    Authors: Harpreet Kaur Saini and Daniel Fischer

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:115

    Content type: Research article

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  10. The outermost layer of the bacterial surface is of crucial importance because it is in constant interaction with the host. Glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) are major surface glycolipids present on various mycobacteri...

    Authors: Fabienne Ripoll, Caroline Deshayes, Sophie Pasek, Françoise Laval, Jean-Luc Beretti, Franck Biet, Jean-Loup Risler, Mamadou Daffé, Gilles Etienne, Jean-Louis Gaillard and Jean-Marc Reyrat

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:114

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  12. Quantitative phenotypic variation of agronomic characters in crop plants is controlled by environmental and genetic factors (quantitative trait loci = QTL). To understand the molecular basis of such QTL, the i...

    Authors: Agim Ballvora, Anika Jöcker, Prisca Viehöver, Hirofumi Ishihara, Jürgen Paal, Khalid Meksem, Rémy Bruggmann, Heiko Schoof, Bernd Weisshaar and Christiane Gebhardt

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:112

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  13. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a high-throughput method for measuring genome-wide DNA copy number changes. Current aCGH methods have limited resolution, sensitivity and reproducibility...

    Authors: Herbert Auer, David L Newsom, Norma J Nowak, Kirk M McHugh, Sunita Singh, Chack-Yung Yu, Yan Yang, Gail D Wenger, Julie M Gastier-Foster and Karl Kornacker

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:111

    Content type: Methodology article

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  14. Previous studies have sought to identify a link between the distribution of variable genes amongst isolates of Campylobacter jejuni and particular host preferences. The genomic sequence data available currently w...

    Authors: Philip J Hepworth, Howard Leatherbarrow, C Anthony Hart and Craig Winstanley

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:110

    Content type: Research article

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  15. As the developmental costs of genomic tools decline, genomic approaches to non-model systems are becoming more feasible. Many of these systems may lack advanced genetic tools but are extremely valuable models ...

    Authors: Patrick D Danley, Sean P Mullen, Fenglong Liu, Vishvanath Nene, John Quackenbush and Kerry L Shaw

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:109

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  17. The Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) family is a ubiquitous family of heavy metal transporters. Much interest in this family has focused on implications for human health and bioremediation. In this work a br...

    Authors: Barbara Montanini, Damien Blaudez, Sylvain Jeandroz, Dale Sanders and Michel Chalot

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:107

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  19. We provide a re-analysis of the Golden Spike dataset, a first generation "spike-in" control microarray dataset. The original analysis of the Golden Spike dataset was presented in a manuscript by Choe et al. an...

    Authors: Daniel P Gaile and Jeffrey C Miecznikowski

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:105

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  20. Comprehensive identification and classification of the transcription factors (TFs) in a given genome is an important aspect in understanding transcriptional regulatory networks of a specific organism. Cyanobac...

    Authors: Jinyu Wu, Fangqing Zhao, Shengqin Wang, Gang Deng, Junrong Wang, Jie Bai, Jianxin Lu, Jia Qu and Qiyu Bao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:104

    Content type: Database

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  21. The number of completed eukaryotic genome sequences and cDNA projects has increased exponentially in the past few years although most of them have not been published yet. In addition, many microarray analyses ...

    Authors: Florian Odronitz, Marcel Hellkamp and Martin Kollmar

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:103

    Content type: Database

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  22. The salivary glands of hematophagous animals contain a complex cocktail that interferes with the host hemostasis and inflammation pathways, thus increasing feeding success. Fleas represent a relatively recent ...

    Authors: John F Andersen, B Joseph Hinnebusch, David A Lucas, Thomas P Conrads, Timothy D Veenstra, Van M Pham and José MC Ribeiro

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:102

    Content type: Research article

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  23. Following the publication of our recent article (Kapp et al., BMC Genomics 2006, 7:231), we (the authors) regrettably found several errors in the published Table 5. This correction article not only describes what...

    Authors: Amy V Kapp, Stefanie S Jeffrey, Anita Langerød, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Wonshik Han, Dong-Young Noh, Ida RK Bukholm, Monica Nicolau, Patrick O Brown and Robert Tibshirani

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:101

    Content type: Erratum

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    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2006 7:231

  24. Conidia are considered to be the primary cause of infections by Trichophyton rubrum.

    Authors: Tao Liu, Qian Zhang, Lingling Wang, Lu Yu, Wenchuan Leng, Jian Yang, Lihong Chen, Junping Peng, Li Ma, Jie Dong, Xingye Xu, Ying Xue, Yafang Zhu, Wenliang Zhang, Li Yang, Weijun Li…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:100

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  25. Mammalian hepatic lipase (HL) genes are transcribed almost exclusively in hepatocytes. The basis for this liver-restricted expression is not completely understood. We hypothesized that the responsible cis-acti...

    Authors: Diederik van Deursen, Gert-Jan Botma, Hans Jansen and Adrie JM Verhoeven

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:99

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  26. TGF-beta is one of the key cytokines implicated in various disease processes including cancer. TGF-beta inhibits growth and promotes apoptosis in normal epithelial cells and in contrast, acts as a pro-tumour c...

    Authors: Prathibha Ranganathan, Animesh Agrawal, Raghu Bhushan, Aravinda K Chavalmane, Ravi Kiran Reddy Kalathur, Takashi Takahashi and Paturu Kondaiah

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:98

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  29. Mycotoxins are fungal secondary metabolites commonly present in feed and food, and are widely regarded as hazardous contaminants. Citrinin, one of the very well known mycotoxins that was first isolated from Penic...

    Authors: Hitoshi Iwahashi, Emiko Kitagawa, Yoshiteru Suzuki, Youji Ueda, Yo-hei Ishizawa, Hitoshi Nobumasa, Yoshihide Kuboki, Hiroshi Hosoda and Yumiko Iwahashi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:95

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  30. The mammalian brain is divided into distinct regions with structural and neurophysiological differences. As a result, gene expression is likely to vary between regions in relation to their cellular composition...

    Authors: Christine Stansberg, Audun Osland Vik-Mo, Rita Holdhus, Harald Breilid, Boleslaw Srebro, Kjell Petersen, Hugo A Jørgensen, Inge Jonassen and Vidar M Steen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:94

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  31. Insects constitute the vast majority of known species with their importance including biodiversity, agricultural, and human health concerns. It is likely that the successful adaptation of the Insecta clade dep...

    Authors: Guojie Zhang, Hongsheng Wang, Junjie Shi, Xiaoling Wang, Hongkun Zheng, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, Terry Clark, Wen Wang, Jun Wang and Le Kang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:93

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  32. Neoplasia can be driven by mutations resulting in dysregulation of transcription. In the mesenchymal neoplasm, aggressive fibromatosis, subtractive hybridization identified sterile alpha motif domain 9 (SAMD9) as...

    Authors: Catherine F Li, Jeffrey R MacDonald, Robert Y Wei, Jocelyn Ray, Kimberly Lau, Christopher Kandel, Rachel Koffman, Sherilyn Bell, Stephen W Scherer and Benjamin A Alman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:92

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  33. In vitro models are indispensable study objects in the fields of cell and molecular biology, with advantages such as accessibility, homogeneity of the cell population, reproducibility, and growth rate. The Caco-2...

    Authors: Kaatje Lenaerts, Freek G Bouwman, Wouter H Lamers, Johan Renes and Edwin C Mariman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:91

    Content type: Research article

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  34. LTR retrotransposons are a class of mobile genetic elements containing two similar long terminal repeats (LTRs). Currently, LTR retrotransposons are annotated in eukaryotic genomes mainly through the conventio...

    Authors: Mina Rho, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Sun Kim, Michael Lynch and Haixu Tang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:90

    Content type: Methodology article

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  35. Gene expression profiles of non-model mammals may provide valuable data for biomedical and evolutionary studies. However, due to lack of sequence information of other species, DNA microarrays are currently res...

    Authors: Manuel Nieto-Díaz, Wolfgang Pita-Thomas and Manuel Nieto-Sampedro

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:89

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  36. Microarrays provide a means to simultaneously examine the gene expression of the entire transcriptome in a single sample. Many studies have highlighted the need for novel software and statistical approaches to...

    Authors: Walter D Park and Mark D Stegall

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:88

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  37. Golden Promise is a salt-tolerant spring barley closely related to Maythorpe. Salt tolerance in Golden Promise has been attributed to a single mutation at the Ari-e locus (on 5H) resulting from irradiation of May...

    Authors: Harkamal Walia, Clyde Wilson, Pascal Condamine, Abdelbagi M Ismail, Jin Xu, Xinping Cui and Timothy J Close

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:87

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  39. Little is known about the genes that drive embryonic stem cell differentiation. However, such knowledge is necessary if we are to exploit the therapeutic potential of stem cells. To uncover the genetic determi...

    Authors: Kagnew Hailesellasse Sene, Christopher J Porter, Gareth Palidwor, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Enrique M Muro, Pearl A Campbell, Michael A Rudnicki and Miguel A Andrade-Navarro

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:85

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  40. Currently, two main technologies are used for screening of DNA copy number; the BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) and the recently developed oligonucleotide-based CGH (Chromosomal Comparative Genomic Hybri...

    Authors: Nicolas Wicker, Annaïck Carles, Ian G Mills, Maija Wolf, Abhi Veerakumarasivam, Henrik Edgren, Fabrice Boileau, Bohdan Wasylyk, Jack A Schalken, David E Neal, Olli Kallioniemi and Olivier Poch

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:84

    Content type: Methodology article

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  41. ATP binding cassette (ABC) systems are responsible for the import and export of a wide variety of molecules across cell membranes and comprise one of largest protein superfamilies found in prokarya, eukarya an...

    Authors: David N Harland, Elie Dassa, Richard W Titball, Katherine A Brown and Helen S Atkins

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:83

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  42. A Paramecium tetraurelia pilot genome project, the subsequent sequencing of a Megabase chromosome as well as the Paramecium genome project aimed at gaining insight into the genome of Paramecium. These cells displ...

    Authors: Ivonne M Sehring, Jörg Mansfeld, Christoph Reiner, Erika Wagner, Helmut Plattner and Roland Kissmehl

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:82

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  43. Microarrays offer a powerful tool for diverse applications plant biology and crop improvement. Recently, two comprehensive assemblies of cotton ESTs were constructed based on three Gossypium species. Using these ...

    Authors: Joshua A Udall, Lex E Flagel, Foo Cheung, Andrew W Woodward, Ran Hovav, Ryan A Rapp, Jordan M Swanson, Jinsuk J Lee, Alan R Gingle, Dan Nettleton, Christopher D Town, Z Jeffrey Chen and Jonathan F Wendel

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:81

    Content type: Methodology article

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  44. Aging has been associated with widespread changes at the gene expression level in multiple mammalian tissues. We have used high density oligonucleotide arrays and novel statistical methods to identify specific...

    Authors: Michael G Edwards, Rozalyn M Anderson, Ming Yuan, Christina M Kendziorski, Richard Weindruch and Tomas A Prolla

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:80

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  45. Human muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders which cause decreased muscle strength and often result in premature death. There is no known cure for muscular dystrophy, nor have all ...

    Authors: Leta S Steffen, Jeffrey R Guyon, Emily D Vogel, Rosanna Beltre, Timothy J Pusack, Yi Zhou, Leonard I Zon and Louis M Kunkel

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:79

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  47. Genotyping technologies for whole genome association studies are now available. To perform such studies to an affordable price, pooled DNA can be used. Recent studies have shown that GeneChip Human Mapping 10 ...

    Authors: Stefan Wilkening, Bowang Chen, Michael Wirtenberger, Barbara Burwinkel, Asta Försti, Kari Hemminki and Federico Canzian

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:77

    Content type: Methodology article

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  48. The mouse C57BL/6 (C57) and DBA/2J (DBA) inbred strains differ substantially in many aspects of their response to drugs of abuse. The development of microarray analyses represents a genome-wide method for meas...

    Authors: Dorothy E Grice, Ilkka Reenilä, Pekka T Männistö, Andrew I Brooks, George G Smith, Greg T Golden, Joseph D Buxbaum and Wade H Berrettini

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:76

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  49. Cattle and other ruminants have evolved the ability to derive most of their metabolic energy requirement from otherwise indigestible plant matter through a symbiotic relationship with plant fibre degrading mic...

    Authors: Thomas T Wheeler, Kylie A Hood, Nauman J Maqbool, John C McEwan, Colin D Bingle and Shaying Zhao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:75

    Content type: Research article

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  50. Mutations in the PTEN induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1) are implicated in early-onset Parkinson's disease. PINK1 is expressed abundantly in mitochondria rich tissues, such as skeletal muscle, where it plays a cri...

    Authors: Camilla Scheele, Natasa Petrovic, Mohammad A Faghihi, Timo Lassmann, Katarina Fredriksson, Olav Rooyackers, Claes Wahlestedt, Liam Good and James A Timmons

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:74

    Content type: Research article

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