Annotation and expression of carboxylesterases in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dermal papilla cells (DPCs), the "signaling center" of hair follicle (HF), delicately master continual growth of hair in mammals including cashmere, the fine fiber annually produced by secondary HF embedded in cashmere goat skins. Such unparalleled capacity bases on their exquisite character in instructing t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma S,Wang Y,Zhou G,Ding Y,Yang Y,Wang X,Zhang E,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hulless barley, also called naked barley, is an important cereal crop worldwide, serving as a healthy food both for human consumption and animal feed. Nevertheless, it often suffered from drought stress during its growth and development, resulting in a drastic reduction in barley yields. Therefore, study on ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zeng X,Bai L,Wei Z,Yuan H,Wang Y,Xu Q,Tang Y,Nyima T

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Codon usage analysis has been a classical topic for decades and has significances for studies of evolution, mRNA translation, and new gene discovery, etc. While the codon usage varies among different members of the plant kingdom, indicating the necessity for species-specific study, this work has mostly been ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng C,Xu CJ,Wang Y,Liu WL,Yin XR,Li X,Chen M,Chen KS

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Digital gene expression profiling was used to characterize the assembly of genes expressed in equine skeletal muscle and to identify the subset of genes that were differentially expressed following a ten-month period of exercise training. The study cohort comprised seven Thoroughbred racehorses from a single...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McGivney BA,McGettigan PA,Browne JA,Evans AC,Fonseca RG,Loftus BJ,Lohan A,MacHugh DE,Murphy BA,Katz LM,Hill EW

更新日期：2010-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multidrug- (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) presents a challenge to disease control and elimination goals. In Lisbon, Portugal, specific and successful XDR-TB strains have been found in circulation for almost two decades. RESULTS:In the present study we have genotyped and sequenc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Perdigão J,Silva H,Machado D,Macedo R,Maltez F,Silva C,Jordao L,Couto I,Mallard K,Coll F,Hill-Cawthorne GA,McNerney R,Pain A,Clark TG,Viveiros M,Portugal I

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative trait locus (QTL) studies show that variation in salinity tolerance in Arctic charr and rainbow trout has a genetic basis, even though both these species have low to moderate salinity tolerance capacities. QTL were observed to localize to homologous linkage group segments within putative chromos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Norman JD,Robinson M,Glebe B,Ferguson MM,Danzmann RG

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous human genes encode potentially active DNA transposases or recombinases, but our understanding of their functions remains limited due to shortage of methods to profile their activities on endogenous genomic substrates. RESULTS:To enable functional analysis of human transposase-derived genes, we comb...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Henssen AG,Jiang E,Zhuang J,Pinello L,Socci ND,Koche R,Gonen M,Villasante CM,Armstrong SA,Bauer DE,Weng Z,Kentsis A

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restriction-modification (R-M) systems protect bacteria and archaea from attacks by bacteriophages and archaeal viruses. An R-M system specifically recognizes short sites in foreign DNA and cleaves it, while such sites in the host DNA are protected by methylation. Prokaryotic viruses have developed a number ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rusinov IS,Ershova AS,Karyagina AS,Spirin SA,Alexeevski AV

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The introduction of genome-wide shRNA and CRISPR libraries has facilitated cell-based screens to identify loss-of-function mutations associated with a phenotype of interest. Approaches to perform analogous gain-of-function screens are less common, although some reports have utilized arrayed viral expression ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feddersen CR,Wadsworth LS,Zhu EY,Vaughn HR,Voigt AP,Riordan JD,Dupuy AJ

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) has become an increasingly important crop for its leading role in biofuel production. The high sugar content species S. officinarum is an octoploid without known diploid or tetraploid progenitors. Commercial sugarcane cultivars are hybrids between S. officinarum and wild species S....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Roe B,Macmil S,Yu Q,Murray JE,Tang H,Chen C,Najar F,Wiley G,Bowers J,Van Sluys MA,Rokhsar DS,Hudson ME,Moose SP,Paterson AH,Ming R

更新日期：2010-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray) is a rubber-producing desert shrub native to Mexico and the United States. Guayule represents an alternative to Hevea brasiliensis as a source for commercial natural rubber. The efficient application of modern molecular/genetic tools to guayule improvement requires cha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Valdes Franco JA,Wang Y,Huo N,Ponciano G,Colvin HA,McMahan CM,Gu YQ,Belknap WR

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress is a common stress encountered by living organisms and is due to an imbalance between intracellular reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS, RNS) and cellular antioxidant defence. To defend themselves against ROS/RNS, bacteria possess a subsystem of detoxification enzymes, which are classi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Thybert D,Avner S,Lucchetti-Miganeh C,Chéron A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2008-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ecological studies routinely show genotype-genotype interactions between insects and their parasites. The mechanisms behind these interactions are not clearly understood. Using the bumblebee Bombus terrestris/trypanosome Crithidia bombi model system (two bumblebee colonies by two Crithidia strains), we have ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Riddell CE,Lobaton Garces JD,Adams S,Barribeau SM,Twell D,Mallon EB

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep sequencing is a powerful tool for assessing viral genetic diversity. Such experiments harness the high coverage afforded by next generation sequencing protocols by treating sequencing reads as a population sample. Distinguishing true single nucleotide variants (SNVs) from sequencing errors remains chall...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McElroy K,Zagordi O,Bull R,Luciani F,Beerenwinkel N

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many eukaryotes, microRNAs (miRNAs) bind to complementary sites in the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and regulate their expression at the stage of translation. Recent studies have revealed that many miRNAs are evolutionarily conserved; however, the evolution of their t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Takane K,Fujishima K,Watanabe Y,Sato A,Saito N,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Juncus effusus L. (family: Juncaceae; order: Poales) is a helophytic rush growing in temperate damp or wet terrestrial habitats and is of almost cosmopolitan distribution. The species has been studied intensively with respect to its interaction with co-occurring plants as well as microbes being involved in m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Arslan M,Devisetty UK,Porsch M,Große I,Müller JA,Michalski SG

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The SOS response is a well-known regulatory network present in most bacteria and aimed at addressing DNA damage. It has also been linked extensively to stress-induced mutagenesis, virulence and the emergence and dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants. Recently, the SOS response has been shown to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sanchez-Alberola N,Campoy S,Barbé J,Erill I

更新日期：2012-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies show that galanin neurons in ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO-Gal) are essential for sleep regulation. Here, we explored the transcriptional regulation of the VLPO-Gal neurons in sleep by comparing their transcriptional responses between sleeping mice and those kept awake, sacrificed at ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo X,Gao X,Keenan BT,Zhu J,Sarantopoulou D,Lian J,Galante RJ,Grant GR,Pack AI

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) infection can cause acute inflammation. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in a number of biological process including inflammation response. However, whether lncRNAs participate in TGEV-induced inflammation in porcine intestinal epithelial cells (IP...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma X,Zhao X,Wang K,Tang X,Guo J,Mi M,Qi Y,Chang L,Huang Y,Tong D

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit peel colour is an important agronomic trait for fruit quality. Cytosine methylation plays an important role in gene regulation. Although the DNA methylation level of a single gene is important to affect the phenotype of mutation, there are large unknown of difference of the DNA methylation in plant and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang SH,Sun QG,Chen M,Wang N,Xu HF,Fang HC,Wang YC,Zhang ZY,Chen XS

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is a costly global disease that burdens farmers with yield loss and high fungicide expenses. This sophisticated biotrophic parasite infiltrates wheat leaves and develops infection structures inside host cells, appropriating nutrients while sup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mueth NA,Ramachandran SR,Hulbert SH

更新日期：2015-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria pathogenesis relies on sexual gametocyte forms of the malaria parasite to be transmitted between the infected human and the mosquito host but the molecular mechanisms controlling gametocytogenesis remains poorly understood. Here we provide a high-resolution transcriptome of Plasmodium falciparum as i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： van Biljon R,van Wyk R,Painter HJ,Orchard L,Reader J,Niemand J,Llinás M,Birkholtz LM

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the advent of high-throughput sequencing and the consequent reduction in the cost of sequencing, many organisms have been completely sequenced and most of their genes identified. It thus has become possible to represent whole genomes as ordered lists of gene identifiers and to study the rearrangem...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yue F,Zhang M,Tang J

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most of our understanding on the social behavior and genomics of bees and other social insects is centered on the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The genus Apis, however, is a highly derived branch comprising less than a dozen species, four of which genomically characterized. In contrast, for the equally ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： de Paula Freitas FC,Lourenço AP,Nunes FMF,Paschoal AR,Abreu FCP,Barbin FO,Bataglia L,Cardoso-Júnior CAM,Cervoni MS,Silva SR,Dalarmi F,Del Lama MA,Depintor TS,Ferreira KM,Gória PS,Jaskot MC,Lago DC,Luna-Lucena D,Moda L

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus arachidicola is an aflatoxigenic fungal species, first isolated from the leaves of a wild peanut species native to Argentina. It has since been reported in maize, Brazil nut and human sputum samples. This aflatoxigenic species is capable of secreting both B and G aflatoxins, similar to A. parasit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moore GG,Mack BM,Beltz SB,Puel O

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oomycetes are a group of filamentous microorganisms that includes both animal and plant pathogens and causes major agricultural losses. Phytophthora species can infect most crops and plants from natural ecosystems. Despite their tremendous economic and ecologic importance, few effective methods exist for lim...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Attard A,Evangelisti E,Kebdani-Minet N,Panabières F,Deleury E,Maggio C,Ponchet M,Gourgues M

更新日期：2014-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many reptiles exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). The initial cue in TSD is incubation temperature, unlike genotypic sex determination (GSD) where it is determined by the presence of specific alleles (or genetic loci). We used patterns of gene expression to identify candidates for genes wi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chojnowski JL,Braun EL

更新日期：2012-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the causal agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), which has severely impacted the swine industry worldwide. PCV2 triggers a weak and atypical innate immune response, but the key genes and mechanisms by which the virus interferes with host innate immuni...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Liu S,Wang Y,Deng F,Yan W,Yang K,Chen H,He Q,Charreyre C,Audoneet JC

更新日期：2013-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome rearrangement describes gross changes of chromosomal regions, plays an important role in evolutionary biology and has profound impacts on phenotype in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. With more and more complete genomes accomplished, lots of genomic comparisons have been conducted in order t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang D,Li S,Guo F,Ning K,Wang L

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lychas mucronatus is one scorpion species widely distributed in Southeast Asia and southern China. Anything is hardly known about its venom components, despite the fact that it can often cause human accidents. In this work, we performed a venomous gland transcriptome analysis by constructing and screening th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ruiming Z,Yibao M,Yawen H,Zhiyong D,Yingliang W,Zhijian C,Wenxin L

更新日期：2010-07-28 00:00:00