Identification of chromosomal alpha-proteobacterial small RNAs by comparative genome analysis and detection in Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the genome sequences of Euphausiacea (krill) although these crustaceans are abundant components of the pelagic ecosystems in all oceans and used for aquaculture and pharmaceutical industry. This study reports the results of an expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing project from differe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Pittà C,Bertolucci C,Mazzotta GM,Bernante F,Rizzo G,De Nardi B,Pallavicini A,Lanfranchi G,Costa R

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aluminium (Al) toxicity is the main factor limiting the crop production in acid soils and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the most Al-sensitive of the small-grained cereals. The major gene for Al tolerance in barley is HvAACT1 (HvMATE) on chromosome 4H which encodes a multidrug and toxic compound extru...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma Y,Li C,Ryan PR,Shabala S,You J,Liu J,Liu C,Zhou M

更新日期：2016-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study and analysis of gene expression measurements is the primary focus of functional genomics. Once expression data is available, biologists are faced with the task of extracting (new) knowledge associated to the underlying biological phenomenon. Most often, in order to perform this task, biologists exe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miyazaki FA,Guardia GD,Vêncio RZ,de Farias CR

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Habitats colonized by acidophiles as an ideal physical barrier may induce genetic exchange of microbial members within the common communities, but little is known about how species in extremely acidic environments diverge and evolve. RESULTS:Using the acidophilic sulfur-oxidizer Acidithiobacillus as a case ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang X,Liu X,Li L,Wei G,Zhang D,Liang Y,Miao B

更新日期：2019-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to identify regions of the genome inherited with a dominant trait in one or more families has become increasingly valuable with the wide availability of high throughput sequencing technology. While a number of methods exist for mapping of homozygous variants segregating with recessive traits in c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Levine AP,Connor TM,Oygar DD,Neild GH,Segal AW,Maxwell PH,Gale DP

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported that the original shading in columns 3 and 4 of Table 3, which indicated the presence or absence of viruses in each library, had been removed during typesetting. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Belda E,Nanfack-Minkeu F,Eiglmeier K,Carissimo G,Holm I,Diallo M,Diallo D,Vantaux A,Kim S,Sharakhov IV,Vernick KD

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs), a large group of cysteine proteases structurally related to papain, play important roles in plant development, senescence, and defense responses. Papain, the first cysteine protease whose structure was determined by X-ray crystallography, plays a crucial role in protec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu J,Sharma A,Niewiara MJ,Singh R,Ming R,Yu Q

更新日期：2018-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paired-tag sequencing approaches are commonly used for the analysis of genome structure. However, mammalian genomes have a complex organization with a variety of repetitive elements that complicate comprehensive genome-wide analyses. RESULTS:Here, we systematically assessed the utility of paired-end and mat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： van Heesch S,Kloosterman WP,Lansu N,Ruzius FP,Levandowsky E,Lee CC,Zhou S,Goldstein S,Schwartz DC,Harkins TT,Guryev V,Cuppen E

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA microarrays provide the ability to interrogate multiple genes in a single experiment and have revolutionized genomic research. However, the microarray technology suffers from various forms of biases and relatively low reproducibility. A particular source of false data has been described, in which non-ran...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Koren A,Tirosh I,Barkai N

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The antitumor drug daunorubicin exerts some of its cytotoxic effects by binding to DNA and inhibiting the transcription of different genes. We analysed this effect in vivo at the transcriptome level using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model and sublethal (IC40) concentrations of the drug to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rojas M,Casado M,Portugal J,Piña B

更新日期：2008-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though Illumina has largely dominated the RNA-Seq field, the simultaneous availability of Ion Torrent has left scientists wondering which platform is most effective for differential gene expression (DGE) analysis. Previous investigations of this question have typically used reference samples derived from cel...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lahens NF,Ricciotti E,Smirnova O,Toorens E,Kim EJ,Baruzzo G,Hayer KE,Ganguly T,Schug J,Grant GR

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation (H3K4me3) and histone H3 lysine 9 tri-methylation (H3K9me3) are widely perceived to be opposing and often mutually exclusive chromatin modifications. However, both are needed for certain light-activated genes in Neurospora crassa (Neurospora), including frequency (frq) and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu Q,Ramakrishnan M,Park J,Belden WJ

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) has been acknowledged as the most endangered felid species in the world. An intense contraction and fragmentation during the twentieth century left less than 100 individuals split in two isolated and genetically eroded populations by 2002. Genetic monitoring and management so...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kleinman-Ruiz D,Martínez-Cruz B,Soriano L,Lucena-Perez M,Cruz F,Villanueva B,Fernández J,Godoy JA

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, oil-rich plants are the main source of biodiesel products. Because concerns have been voiced about the impact of oil-crop cultivation on the price of food commodities, the interest in oil plants not used for food production and amenable to cultivation on non-agricultural land has soared. As a non-fo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Costa GG,Cardoso KC,Del Bem LE,Lima AC,Cunha MA,de Campos-Leite L,Vicentini R,Papes F,Moreira RC,Yunes JA,Campos FA,Da Silva MJ

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND: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 development, immunity and oncogenesis. Additionally to its canonical pathway that uses the phosphorylat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tsurumi A,Zhao C,Li WX

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With advances in next generation sequencing technology and analysis methods, single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and indels can be detected with high sensitivity and specificity in exome sequencing data. Recent studies have demonstrated the ability to detect disease-causing copy number variants (CNVs) in exome...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Samarakoon PS,Sorte HS,Stray-Pedersen A,Rødningen OK,Rognes T,Lyle R

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) regulation is extensive and shapes the functional complexity of higher organisms. However, the contribution of alternative splicing to fungal biology is not well studied. RESULTS:This study provides sequences of the transcriptomes of the plant wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae, us...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jin L,Li G,Yu D,Huang W,Cheng C,Liao S,Wu Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determination of genome-wide DNA methylation is significant for both basic research and drug development. As a key epigenetic modification, this biochemical process can modulate gene expression to influence the cell differentiation which can possibly lead to cancer. Due to the involuted biochemical mechanism...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tian Q,Zou J,Tang J,Fang Y,Yu Z,Fan S

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification and classification of highly similar microbial strains is a challenging issue in microbiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Among various available approaches, gene content analysis is also at the core of microbial taxonomy. However, no threshold has been determined for grouping microorgn...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tu Q,Lin L

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable Elements (TEs) are key components that shape the organization and evolution of genomes. Fungi have developed defense mechanisms against TE invasion such as RIP (Repeat-Induced Point mutation), MIP (Methylation Induced Premeiotically) and Quelling (RNA interference). RIP inactivates repeated sequ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Amselem J,Lebrun MH,Quesneville H

更新日期：2015-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though microsatellite loci frequently have been isolated using recently developed next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques, this task is still difficult because of the subsequent polymorphism screening requires a substantial amount of time. Selecting appropriate polymorphic microsatellites is a criti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xia Y,Luo W,Yuan S,Zheng Y,Zeng X

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of power and reproducibility are caveats of genetic association studies of common complex diseases. Indeed, the heterogeneity of disease etiology demands that causal models consider the simultaneous involvement of multiple genes. Rothman's sufficient-cause model, which is well known in epidemiology, pro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lynn KS,Lu CH,Yang HY,Hsu WL,Pan WH

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrosatellites are some of the largest variable number tandem repeats in the human genome, but what role these unusual sequences perform is unknown. Their importance to human health is clearly demonstrated by the 4q35 macrosatellite D4Z4 that is associated with the onset of the muscle degenerative disease f...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tremblay DC,Alexander G Jr,Moseley S,Chadwick BP

更新日期：2010-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arsenic (As) exposure is a significant worldwide environmental health concern. Low dose, chronic arsenic exposure has been associated with a higher than normal risk of skin, lung, and bladder cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. While arsenic-induced biological changes play a role in disea...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Riedmann C,Ma Y,Melikishvili M,Godfrey SG,Zhang Z,Chen KC,Rouchka EC,Fondufe-Mittendorf YN

更新日期：2015-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the postgenome era, a prediction of response to treatment could lead to better dose selection for patients in radiotherapy. To identify a radiosensitive gene signature and elucidate related signaling pathways, four different microarray experiments were reanalyzed before radiotherapy. RESULTS:Radiosensiti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim HS,Kim SC,Kim SJ,Park CH,Jeung HC,Kim YB,Ahn JB,Chung HC,Rha SY

更新日期：2012-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S. erythraea is a Gram-positive filamentous bacterium used for the industrial-scale production of erythromycin A which is of high clinical importance. In this work, we sequenced the whole genome of a high-producing strain (E3) obtained by random mutagenesis and screening from the wild-type strain NRRL23338, ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li YY,Chang X,Yu WB,Li H,Ye ZQ,Yu H,Liu BH,Zhang Y,Zhang SL,Ye BC,Li YX

更新日期：2013-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genotype imputation can help reduce genotyping costs particularly for implementation of genomic selection. In applications entailing large populations, recovering the genotypes of untyped loci using information from reference individuals that were genotyped with a higher density panel is computationally chal...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sargolzaei M,Chesnais JP,Schenkel FS

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compromised intestinal barrier (CIB) has been associated with many enteropathies, including colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We hypothesized that CIB could lead to increased host-derived contents including epithelial cells into the gut, change its physio-metabolic properties, and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang P,Lai S,Wu S,Zhao XM,Chen WH

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Banana wilt disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4), is one of the most devastating diseases in banana (Musa spp.). Foc is a soil borne pathogen that causes rot of the roots or wilt of leaves by colonizing the xylem vessels. The dual RNA sequencing is used to simultaneo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Wang X,Li C,Sun J,Li S,Peng M

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many bacterial chromosomes display nucleotide asymmetry, or skew, between the leading and lagging strands of replication. Mutational differences between these strands result in an overall pattern of skew that is centered about the origin of replication. Such a pattern could also arise from selection coupled ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Morton RA,Morton BR

更新日期：2007-10-12 00:00:00