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  1. Wulong geese (Anser cygnoides orientalis) are known for their excellent egg-laying performance. However, they show considerable population differences in egg-laying behavior. This study combined genome-wide selec...

    Authors: Jingjing Liu, Yu Xiao, Pengwei Ren, Shuer Zhang, Yang Liu and Mingxia Zhu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:481
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  2. Reproduction is a key feature of the sustainability of a species and thus represents an important component in livestock genetic improvement programs. Most reproductive traits are lowly heritable. In order to ...

    Authors: Jason J Reding, Robert R van der Westhuizen, Donagh P Berry and Este van Marle-Köster
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:480
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  3. Numerous circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been recently identified in porcine tissues and cell types. Nevertheless, their significance in porcine spleen development is yet unelucidated. Herein, we reported an ext...

    Authors: Yifu Wang, Jinhua Cheng, Chao Xu, Jian Jin, Wenbin Bao, Shenglong Wu and Zhengchang Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:477
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  4. Tilapia is one of the most essential farmed fishes in the world. It is a tropical and subtropical freshwater fish well adapted to warm water but sensitive to cold weather. Extreme cold weather could cause seve...

    Authors: Abdel-Fattah M. El-Sayed, Asmaa A. Khaled, Amira M. Hamdan, Sara O. Makled, Elsayed E. Hafez and Ahmed A. Saleh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:476
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  5. The genus Sophora (Fabaceae) includes medicinal plants that have been used in East Asian countries since antiquity. Sophora flavescens is a perennial herb indigenous to China, India, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Its...

    Authors: Yang Jae Kang, Halim Park, Yejin Lee, Sanghwa Yoon and Myounghai Kwak
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:475
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  6. The glyoxalase system includes glyoxalase I (GLXI), glyoxalase II (GLXII) and glyoxalase III (GLXIII), which are responsible for methylglyoxal (MG) detoxification and involved in abiotic stress responses such ...

    Authors: Menglin Xu, Dongyun Zuo, Qiaolian Wang, Limin Lv, Youping Zhang, Huixin Jiao, Xiang Zhang, Yi Yang, Guoli Song and Hailiang Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:474
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  7. Drought stress is a prevalent abiotic stress that significantly hinders the growth and development of plants. According to studies, β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) can influence the ABA pathway through the AtIBI1 rece...

    Authors: Cong-Hua Feng, Meng-Xue Niu, Shilei Zhao, Shangjing Guo, Weilun Yin, Xinli Xia and Yanyan Su
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:473
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  8. The nutritional status during early life can have enduring effects on an animal’s metabolism, although the mechanisms underlying these long-term effects are still unclear. Epigenetic modifications are consider...

    Authors: Yusuke Inoue, Yuta Suzuki, Yoshimi Kunishima, Terumi Washio, Shinichi Morishita and Hiroyuki Takeda
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:472
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  9. Protists of the family Trypanosomatidae (phylum Euglenozoa) have gained notoriety as parasites affecting humans, domestic animals, and agricultural plants. However, the true extent of the group's diversity spr...

    Authors: Amanda T. S. Albanaz, Mark Carrington, Alexander O. Frolov, Anna I. Ganyukova, Evgeny S. Gerasimov, Alexei Y. Kostygov, Julius Lukeš, Marina N. Malysheva, Jan Votýpka, Alexandra Zakharova, Kristína Záhonová, Sara L. Zimmer, Vyacheslav Yurchenko and Anzhelika Butenko
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:471
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  10. Alpaca (Vicugna pacos), llama (Lama glama), vicugna (Vicugna vicugna) and guanaco (Lama guanicoe), are the camelid species distributed over the Andean high-altitude grasslands, the Altiplano, and the Patagonian a...

    Authors: Stefano Pallotti, Matteo Picciolini, Marco Antonini, Carlo Renieri and Valerio Napolioni
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:470
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  11. All cancers harbor somatic mutations in their genomes. In principle, mutations affecting between one and fifty base pairs are generally classified as small mutational events. Conversely, large mutational event...

    Authors: Azhar Khandekar, Raviteja Vangara, Mark Barnes, Marcos Díaz-Gay, Ammal Abbasi, Erik N. Bergstrom, Christopher D. Steele, Nischalan Pillay and Ludmil B. Alexandrov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:469
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  13. Phloem protein 2 (PP2) proteins play a vital role in the Phloem-based defense (PBD) and participate in many abiotic and biotic stress. However, research on PP2 proteins in cotton is still lacking.

    Authors: Fei Wei, Pengyun Chen, Hongliang Jian, Xiaohao Guo, Xiaoyan Lv, Boying Lian, Mengxi Sun, Li An, Xinyu Dang, Miaoqian Yang, Hongmei Wu, Nan Zhang, Aimin Wu, Hantao Wang, Liang Ma, Xiaokang Fu…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:467
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  14. Plants possess mitochondrial genomes that are large and complex compared to animals. Despite their size, plant mitochondrial genomes do not contain significantly more genes than their animal counterparts. Stud...

    Authors: Jiaxing Li, Yinglong Chen, Yaling Liu, Chen Wang, Ling Li and Yuehui Chao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:466
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  15. Isatis tinctoria Linnaeus and Isatis indigotica Fortune are very inconsistent in their morphological characteristics, but the Flora of China treats them as the same species. In this work, a new technology that di...

    Authors: Yong Su, Man Zhang, Qiaosheng Guo, Min Wei, Hongzhuan Shi, Tao Wang, Zhengzhou Han, Huihui Liu, Chang Liu and Jianmin Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:465
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  16. Folic acid is a water-soluble B vitamin (B9), which is closely related to the body’s immune and other metabolic pathways. The folic acid synthesized by rumen microbes has been unable to meet the needs of high-...

    Authors: Xueqin Liu, Siyuan Mi, Wenlong Li, Jinning Zhang, Serafino M. A. Augustino, Zhichao Zhang, Ruiqiang Zhang, Wei Xiao and Ying Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:464
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  17. In breast cancer, as in all cancers, genetic and epigenetic deregulations can result in out-of-context expressions of a set of normally silent tissue-specific genes. The activation of some of these genes in va...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Jacquet, Florent Chuffart, Anne-Laure Vitte, Eleni Nika, Mireille Mousseau, Saadi Khochbin, Sophie Rousseaux and Ekaterina Bourova-Flin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:463
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  18. Numerous studies in the past have expanded our understanding of the genetic differences of global distributed cyanobacteria that originated around billions of years ago, however, unraveling how gene gain and l...

    Authors: Xian Zhang, Lijun Xiao, Jiahui Liu, Qibai Tian and Jiaqi Xie
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:462
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  20. Approximately 4–8% of the world suffers from a rare disease. Rare diseases are often difficult to diagnose, and many do not have approved therapies. Genetic sequencing has the potential to shorten the current ...

    Authors: Erica L. Lyons, Daniel Watson, Mohammad S. Alodadi, Sharie J. Haugabook, Gregory J. Tawa, Fady Hannah-Shmouni, Forbes D. Porter, Jack R. Collins, Elizabeth A. Ottinger and Uma S. Mudunuri
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:460
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  21. Acute heat stress could induce high mortality and cause huge economic losses in the poultry industry. Although many studies have revealed heat stress-induced injuries of multiple tissues, the main target tissu...

    Authors: Jiuhong Nan, Hongrui Yang, Li Rong, Zijia Jia, Sendong Yang and Shijun Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:459
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  22. Hull colour is an important morphological marker for selection in seed production of foxtail millet. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying hull colour variation remain unknown.

    Authors: Shuqing Guo, Shaohua Chai, Yan Guo, Xing Shi, Fei Han, Ting Qu, Lu Xing, Qinghua Yang, Jinfeng Gao, Xiaoli Gao, Baili Feng, Hui Song and Pu Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:458
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  24. Lifespan extension has independently evolved several times during mammalian evolution, leading to the emergence of a group of long-lived animals. Though mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signali...

    Authors: Fei Yang, Xing Liu, Yi Li, Zhenpeng Yu, Xin Huang, Guang Yang and Shixia Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:456
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  25. The 1RS arm of wheat-rye 1BL.1RS translocations contains several subtelomeric tandem repeat families. To study the effect of the difference in the composition of these tandem repeats on the meiotic recombinati...

    Authors: Ziying Xiong, Jie Luo, Yang Zou, Qilin Tang, Shulan Fu and Zongxiang Tang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:455
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  26. Trichoderma is a diverse genus of fungi that includes several species that possess biotechnological and agricultural applications, including the biocontrol of pathogenic fungi and nematodes. The mitochondrial gen...

    Authors: Zachary Gorman, Jianchi Chen, Adalberto A. Perez de Leon and Christopher Michael Wallis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:454
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  27. The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, is an economically important shellfish around the world. Great efforts have been made to improve its growth rate through genetic breeding. However, the candidate marker gene...

    Authors: Yongjing Li, Ben Yang, Chenyu Shi, Ying Tan, Liting Ren, Ahmed Mokrani, Qi Li and Shikai Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:453
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  30. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often accompanied by a common extra-articular manifestation known as RA-related usual interstitial pneumonia (RA-UIP), which is associated with a poor prognosis. However, the mecha...

    Authors: Yulu Qiu, Chang Liu, Yumeng Shi, Nannan Hao, Wenfeng Tan and Fang Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:450
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  31. For Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer, Bloch 1790) cultured at sea cages various aquatic pathogens, complex environmental and stress factors are considered as leading causes of disease, causing tens of millions of ...

    Authors: Xueyan Shen, Yong Chao Niu, Joseph Angelo V. Uichanco, Norman Phua, Pranjali Bhandare, Natascha May Thevasagayam, Sai Rama Sridatta Prakki and László Orbán
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:449
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  33. Lonicera japonica Thunb. is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Medicinal L. japonica mainly consists of dried flower buds and partially opened flowers, thus flowers are an important quality indicator. M...

    Authors: Yi Lin, Xiwu Qi, Yan Wan, Zequn Chen, Hailing Fang and Chengyuan Liang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:447
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  34. Disease molecular complexity requires high throughput workflows to map disease pathways through analysis of vast tissue repositories. Great progress has been made in tissue multiomics analytical technologies. ...

    Authors: Scott A. Schactler, Stephen J. Scheuerman, Andrea Lius, William A. Altemeier, Dowon An, Thomas J. Matula, Michal Mikula, Maria Kulecka, Oleg Denisenko, Daniel Mar and Karol Bomsztyk
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:446
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  35. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertions/deletions (InDels) are the most abundant genetic variations and widely distribute across the genomes in plant. Development of SNP and InDel markers is a va...

    Authors: Yadong Li, Xiaobo Luo, Xiao Peng, Yueyue Jin, Huping Tan, Linjun Wu, Jingwei Li, Yun Pei, Xiuhong Xu and Wanping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:445
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  36. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are defined as transcribed molecules longer than 200 nucleotides with little to no protein-coding potential. LncRNAs can regulate gene expression of nearby genes (cis-acting) or gen...

    Authors: Mariela Tenorio, Joanna Serwatowska, Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde, Katarzyna Oktaba and Diego Cortez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:444
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  37. Morphological and traditional genetic studies of the young Pliocene genus Hyles have led to the understanding that despite its importance for taxonomy, phenotypic similarity of wing patterns does not correlate wi...

    Authors: Anna K. Hundsdoerfer, Tilman Schell, Franziska Patzold, Charlotte J. Wright, Atsuo Yoshido, František Marec, Hana Daneck, Sylke Winkler, Carola Greve, Lars Podsiadlowski, Michael Hiller and Martin Pippel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:443
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  38. Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies provide insights into regulatory mechanisms underlying disease risk. Expanding studies of gene regulation to underexplored populations and to medically relevan...

    Authors: Konstantinos Rouskas, Efthymia A. Katsareli, Charalampia Amerikanou, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Stavros Glentis, Alexandra Kalantzi, Anargyros Skoulakis, Nikolaos Panousis, Halit Ongen, Deborah Bielser, Alexandra Planchon, Luciana Romano, Vaggelis Harokopos, Martin Reczko, Panagiotis Moulos, Ioannis Griniatsos…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:442
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  39. The sugarcane aphid (SCA; Melanaphis sacchari) has emerged as a key pest on sorghum in the United States that feeds from the phloem tissue, drains nutrients, and inflicts physical damage to plants. Previously, it...

    Authors: Heena Puri, Sajjan Grover, Lise Pingault, Scott E. Sattler and Joe Louis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:441
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  40. Biocontrol is a key technology for the control of pest species. Microctonus parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) have been released in Aotearoa New Zealand as biocontrol agents, targeting three different pe...

    Authors: Sarah N. Inwood, John Skelly, Joseph G. Guhlin, Thomas W.R. Harrop, Stephen L. Goldson and Peter K. Dearden
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:440
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  42. Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) offers an accessible platform for long-read sequencing, which improves the reconstruction of genomes and helps to resolve complex genomic contexts, especially in the case of ...

    Authors: Mathieu Gand, Bram Bloemen, Kevin Vanneste, Nancy H. C. Roosens and Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:438
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  43. CD-1 is an outbred mouse stock that is frequently used in toxicology, pharmacology, and fundamental biomedical research. Although inbred strains are typically better suited for such studies due to minimal gene...

    Authors: Yoon Hee Jung, Hsiao-Lin V. Wang, Samir Ali, Victor G. Corces and Isaac Kremsky
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:437
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  44. Arthropods are the largest group in the animal kingdom and are morphologically characterized by heterorhythmic segments. Brachyuran decapod crustaceans undergo brachyurization metamorphosis in the early develo...

    Authors: Shasha Chen, Xianfeng Jiang, Longjie Xia, Zhiyi Chen, Kaiya Zhou, Jie Yan and Peng Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:436
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  45. Pectate lyase (PL, EC 4.2.2.2), as an endo-acting depolymerizing enzyme, cleaves α-1,4-glycosidic linkages in esterified pectin and involves a broad range of cell wall modifications. However, the knowledge con...

    Authors: Xiaolong Huang, Guilian Sun, Zongmin Wu, Yu Jiang, Qiaohong Li, Yin Yi and Huiqing Yan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:435
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  46. Fatty acids composition in poultry muscle is directly related to its tenderness, flavour, and juiciness, whereas its genetic mechanisms have not been elucidated. In this study, the genetic structure and key re...

    Authors: Shengxin Fan, Pengtao Yuan, Shuaihao Li, Hongtai Li, Bin Zhai, Yuanfang Li, Hongyuan Zhang, Jinxin Gu, Hong Li, Yadong Tian, Xiangtao Kang, Yanhua Zhang and Guoxi Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:434
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  48. COVID-19 waves caused by specific SARS-CoV-2 variants have occurred globally at different times. We focused on Omicron variants to understand the genomic diversity and phylogenetic relatedness of SARS-CoV-2 st...

    Authors: Ali Raza Bukhari, Javaria Ashraf, Akbar Kanji, Yusra Abdul Rahman, Nídia S. Trovão, Peter M. Thielen, Maliha Yameen, Samiah Kanwar, Waqasuddin Khan, Furqan Kabir, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Brian Merritt, Rumina Hasan, David Spiro, Zeba Rasmussen, Uzma Bashir Aamir…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:432
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  49. The H9c2 myoblast cell line, isolated from the left ventricular tissue of rat, is currently used in vitro as a mimetic for skeletal and cardiac muscle due to its biochemical, morphological, and electrical/horm...

    Authors: Carlos Campero-Basaldua, Jessica Herrera-Gamboa, Judith Bernal-Ramírez, Silvia Lopez-Moran, Luis-Alberto Luévano-Martínez, Hugo Alves-Figueiredo, Guillermo Guerrero, Gerardo García-Rivas and Víctor Treviño
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:431
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  50. Recent developments in plant genomics have enabled a comprehensive analysis of the medicinal potential of plants based on their gene repertoire. Genes of biosynthesis pathways can be discovered through compara...

    Authors: Christian Siadjeu and Boas Pucker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:429
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