Genome-wide in silico screen for CCCH-type zinc finger proteins of Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania major.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast, which could become pathogenic in various stressful environmental factors including the spaceflight environment. In this study, we aim to explore the phenotypic changes and possible mechanisms of C. albicans after exposure to spaceflight conditions. RESU...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Liu Y,Zhao G,Gao J,Liu J,Wu X,Xu C,Li Y

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Harvest index (HI), the ratio of grain yield to total biomass, is considered as a measure of biological success in partitioning assimilated photosynthate to the harvestable product. While crop production can be dramatically improved by increasing HI, the underlying molecular genetic mechanism of HI in rapese...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo X,Ma C,Yue Y,Hu K,Li Y,Duan Z,Wu M,Tu J,Shen J,Yi B,Fu T

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of endogenous, non-coding RNAs, about 22 nucleotides long, which regulate gene expression through sequence-specific base pairing with target mRNAs. Extensive studies have shown that miRNA expression in the skin changes remarkably during distinct stages of the hair cycle ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yuan C,Wang X,Geng R,He X,Qu L,Chen Y

更新日期：2013-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening for differentially expressed genes on the genomic scale and comparative analysis of the expression profiles of orthologous genes between species to study gene function and regulation are becoming increasingly feasible. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are an excellent source of data for such studies ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pao SY,Lin WL,Hwang MJ

更新日期：2006-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mytilisepta virgata is a marine mussel commonly found along the coasts of Japan. Although this species has been the subject of occasional studies concerning its ecological role, growth and reproduction, it has been so far almost completely neglected from a genetic and molecular point of view. In the present ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gerdol M,Fujii Y,Hasan I,Koike T,Shimojo S,Spazzali F,Yamamoto K,Ozeki Y,Pallavicini A,Fujita H

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One challenge of systems biology is the integration of new data into the preexisting, and then re-interpretation of the integrated data. Here we use readily available metaanalysis computational methods to integrate new data on the transcriptomic effects of EGF in primary human epidermal keratinocytes with pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Blumenberg M

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long terminal repeat retrotransposons are the most abundant transposons in plants. They play important roles in alternative splicing, recombination, gene regulation, and defense mechanisms. Large-scale sequencing projects for plant genomes are currently underway. Software tools are important for annotating l...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Valencia JD,Girgis HZ

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Engrailed Homology 1 (EH1) motif is a small region, believed to have evolved convergently in homeobox and forkhead containing proteins, that interacts with the Drosophila protein groucho (C. elegans unc-37, Human Transducin-like Enhancers of Split). The small size of the motif makes its reliable identifi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Copley RR

更新日期：2005-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exome sequencing has transformed human genetic analysis and may do the same for other vertebrate model systems. However, a major challenge is sifting through the large number of sequence variants to identify the causative mutation for a given phenotype. In models like Xenopus tropicalis, an incomplete and oc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： del Viso F,Bhattacharya D,Kong Y,Gilchrist MJ,Khokha MK

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance is one of our most serious health threats. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), effecter molecules of innate immune system, can defend host organisms against microbes and most have shown a lowered likelihood for bacteria to form resistance compared to many conventional drugs. Thus, AMPs ar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fu H,Cao Z,Li M,Wang S

更新日期：2020-08-28 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:After several years in the juvenile phase, trees undergo flowering transition to become mature (florally competent) trees. This transition depends on the balanced expression of a complex network of genes that is regulated by both endogenous and environmental factors. However, relatively little is known about...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang JZ,Ai XY,Sun LM,Zhang DL,Guo WW,Deng XX,Hu CG

更新日期：2011-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human interfollicular epidermis is sustained by the proliferation of stem cells and their progeny, transient amplifying cells. Molecular characterization of these two cell populations is essential for better understanding of self renewal, differentiation and mechanisms of skin pathogenesis. The purpose of th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Koçer SS,Djurić PM,Bugallo MF,Simon SR,Matic M

更新日期：2008-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of poultry as a global source of protein underpins the chicken genome and associated SNP data as key tools in selecting and breeding healthy robust birds with improved disease resistance. SNPs affecting host peptides involved in the innate defences tend to be rare, but three non-synonymous SNP...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cadwell K,Niranji SS,Armstrong VL,Mowbray CA,Bailey R,Watson KA,Hall J

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial non-coding RNAs act by base-pairing as regulatory elements in crucial biological processes. We performed the identification of trans-encoded small RNAs (sRNA) from the genomes of Mycoplama hyopneumoniae, Mycoplasma flocculare and Mycoplasma hyorhinis, which are Mycoplasma species that have been ide...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Siqueira FM,de Morais GL,Higashi S,Beier LS,Breyer GM,de Sá Godinho CP,Sagot MF,Schrank IS,Zaha A,de Vasconcelos AT

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Color polymorphism in the nacre of pteriomorphian bivalves is of great interest for the pearl culture industry. The nacreous layer of the Polynesian black-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera exhibits a large array of color variation among individuals including reflections of blue, green, yellow and pi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lemer S,Saulnier D,Gueguen Y,Planes S

更新日期：2015-08-01 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:The mosquito Anopheles gambiae is a major vector of human malaria. Increasing evidence indicates that blood cells (hemocytes) comprise an essential arm of the mosquito innate immune response against both bacteria and malaria parasites. To further characterize the role of hemocytes in mosquito immunity, we un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Baton LA,Robertson A,Warr E,Strand MR,Dimopoulos G

更新日期：2009-06-05 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:Aquaporins (AQPs), as members of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) superfamily, facilitated the permeation of water and other solutes and are involved in multiple biological processes. AQP family exists in almost all living organisms and is highly diversified in vertebrates in both classification and functio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jia Y,Liu X

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soybean seed weight is not only a yield component, but also a critical trait for various soybean food products such as sprouts, edamame, soy nuts, natto and miso. Linkage analysis and genome-wide association study (GWAS) are two complementary and powerful tools to connect phenotypic differences to the underl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yan L,Hofmann N,Li S,Ferreira ME,Song B,Jiang G,Ren S,Quigley C,Fickus E,Cregan P,Song Q

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In animals, signaling of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) is essential for dorsoventral (DV) patterning of the embryo, but how BMP signaling evolved with changes in embryonic DV differentiation is largely unclear. Based on the extensive knowledge of BMP signaling in Drosophila melanogaster, the morphologic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lemke S,Antonopoulos DA,Meyer F,Domanus MH,Schmidt-Ott U

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aedes aegypti is the principle vector of many arboviruses, including dengue virus and Zika virus, which are transmitted when an infected female mosquito takes a blood meal in order to initiate vitellogenesis. During blood digestion, ~ 10 mM heme-iron is ingested into the midgut lumen. While heme acts as both...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Eggleston H,Adelman ZN

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice false smut caused by Villosiclava virens is a devastating fungal disease that spreads in major rice-growing regions throughout the world. However, the genomic information for this fungal pathogen is limited and the pathogenic mechanism of this disease is still not clear. To facilitate genetic, molecular...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang X,Liu Q,Wang H,Luo CX,Wang G,Luo M

更新日期：2013-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein Disulfide Isomerases are thiol oxidoreductase chaperones from thioredoxin superfamily with crucial roles in endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis, implicated in many diseases. The family prototype PDIA1 is also involved in vascular redox cell signaling. PDIA1 is coded by the P4HB gene. While forced chan...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kajihara D,Hon CC,Abdullah AN,Wosniak J Jr,Moretti AIS,Poloni JF,Bonatto D,Hashimoto K,Carninci P,Laurindo FRM

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with ascending or descending monotonic expression patterns over time or stages of stem cells is an important issue in time-series microarray data analysis. We propose a method named Monotonic Feature Selector (MFSelector) based on a concept of total discriminating error (DEtotal) to i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang HW,Sun HJ,Chang TY,Lo HH,Cheng WC,Tseng GC,Lin CT,Chang SJ,Pal N,Chung IF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wood-feeding beetles harbor an ecologically rich and taxonomically diverse assemblage of gut microbes that appear to promote survival in woody tissue, which is devoid of nitrogen and essential nutrients. Nevertheless, the contributions of these apparent symbionts to digestive physiology and nutritional ecolo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Scully ED,Geib SM,Carlson JE,Tien M,McKenna D,Hoover K

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent advances in next generation sequencing technology have made the sequencing of RNA (i.e., RNA-Seq) an extemely popular approach for gene expression analysis. Identification of significant differential expression represents a crucial initial step in these analyses, on which most subsequent inference...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang W,Rosenstiel PC,Schulenburg H

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding syntentic relationship between two species is critical to assessing the potential for comparative genomic analysis. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.), the two most important members of the Phaseoleae legumes, appear to have a diploid and polyploidy recent past, re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McClean PE,Mamidi S,McConnell M,Chikara S,Lee R

更新日期：2010-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The disease caused by Haemonchus contortus, a blood-feeding nematode of small ruminants, is of major economic importance worldwide. The infective third-stage larva (L3) of this gastric nematode is enclosed in a cuticle (sheath) and, once ingested with herbage by the host, undergoes an exsheathment process th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cantacessi C,Campbell BE,Young ND,Jex AR,Hall RS,Presidente PJ,Zawadzki JL,Zhong W,Aleman-Meza B,Loukas A,Sternberg PW,Gasser RB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00