Analysis of nucleosome positioning determined by DNA helix curvature in the human genome.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The milk fat profile of the Danish Holstein (DH) and Danish Jersey (DJ) show clear differences. Identification of the genomic regions, genes and biological pathways underlying the milk fat biosynthesis will improve the understanding of the biology underlying bovine milk fat production and may provide new pos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Buitenhuis B,Janss LL,Poulsen NA,Larsen LB,Larsen MK,Sørensen P

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean acidification (OA), a change in ocean chemistry due to the absorption of atmospheric CO2 into surface oceans, challenges biogenic calcification in many marine organisms. Ocean acidification is expected to rapidly progress in polar seas, with regions of the Southern Ocean expected to experience severe O...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Johnson KM,Hofmann GE

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caixin and Zicaitai (Brassica rapa) belong to Southern and Central China respectively. Zicaitai contains high amount of anthocyanin in leaf and stalk resulting to the purple color. Stalk is the major edible part and stalk color is an economically important trait for the two vegetables. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li GH,Chen HC,Liu JL,Luo WL,Xie DS,Luo SB,Wu TQ,Akram W,Zhong YJ

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxin stimulates pro-inflammatory pathways and is a key player in the pathological mechanisms involved in the development of endometritis. This study aimed to investigate LPS-induced DNA methylation changes in bovine endometrial epithelial cells (bEECs), which may affect endometr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jhamat N,Niazi A,Guo Y,Chanrot M,Ivanova E,Kelsey G,Bongcam-Rudloff E,Andersson G,Humblot P

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sugarcane is a major sugar and biofuel crop, but genomic research and molecular breeding have lagged behind other major crops due to the complexity of auto-allopolyploid genomes. Sugarcane cultivars are frequently aneuploid with chromosome number ranging from 100 to 130, consisting of 70-80 % S. officinarum,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang J,Sharma A,Yu Q,Wang J,Li L,Zhu L,Zhang X,Chen Y,Ming R

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Avian Genomics Conference and Gene Ontology Annotation Workshop brought together researchers and students from around the world to present their latest research addressing the delivery of value from the billions of base-pairs of Archosaur sequence that have become available in the last few years. This editorial de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bridges SM,Burgess SC,McCarthy FM

更新日期：2009-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number variation (CNV) is a major component of genomic variation, yet methods to accurately type genomic CNV lag behind methods that type single nucleotide variation. High-throughput sequencing can contribute to these methods by using sequence read depth, which takes the number of reads that map to a gi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Forni D,Martin D,Abujaber R,Sharp AJ,Sironi M,Hollox EJ

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While changes in chromosome number that result in aneuploidy are associated with phenotypic consequences such as Down syndrome and cancer, the molecular causes of specific phenotypes and genome-wide expression changes that occur in aneuploids are still being elucidated. RESULTS:We employed a segmental aneup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Makarevitch I,Phillips RL,Springer NM

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ribosome is a central player in the translation system, which in mammals consists of four RNA species and 79 ribosomal proteins (RPs). The control mechanisms of gene expression and the functions of RPs are believed to be identical. Most RP genes have common promoters and were therefore assumed to have a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ishii K,Washio T,Uechi T,Yoshihama M,Kenmochi N,Tomita M

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.], a crop of historical importance in China, has been adopted as a model crop for studying C-4 photosynthesis, stress biology and biofuel traits. Construction of a high density genetic map and identification of stable quantitative trait loci (QTL) lay the foundat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fang X,Dong K,Wang X,Liu T,He J,Ren R,Zhang L,Liu R,Liu X,Li M,Huang M,Zhang Z,Yang T

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Musa species (Zingiberaceae, Zingiberales) including bananas and plantains are collectively the fourth most important crop in developing countries. Knowledge concerning Musa genome structure and the origin of distinct cultivars has greatly increased over the last few years. Until now, however, no large-scale...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lescot M,Piffanelli P,Ciampi AY,Ruiz M,Blanc G,Leebens-Mack J,da Silva FR,Santos CM,D'Hont A,Garsmeur O,Vilarinhos AD,Kanamori H,Matsumoto T,Ronning CM,Cheung F,Haas BJ,Althoff R,Arbogast T,Hine E,Pappas GJ Jr,Sas

更新日期：2008-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpesvirus implicated in cancer and autoimmune disorders. Little is known concerning the roles of RNA structure in this important human pathogen. This study provides the first comprehensive genome-wide survey of RNA and RNA structure in EBV. RESULTS:Novel EBV RNAs and RN...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moss WN,Steitz JA

更新日期：2013-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The MHC and KIR loci are clinically relevant regions of the genome. Typing the sequence of these loci has a wide range of applications including organ transplantation, drug discovery, pharmacogenomics and furthering fundamental research in immune genetics. Rapid advances in biochemical and next-generation se...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Selvaraj S,Schmitt AD,Dixon JR,Ren B

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Petal nectar spurs, which facilitate pollination through animal attraction and pollen placement, represent a key innovation promoting diversification in the genus Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae). Identifying the genetic components that contribute to the development of these three-dimensional structures will inform...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ballerini ES,Kramer EM,Hodges SA

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We use an approach based on Factor Analysis to analyze datasets generated for transcriptional profiling. The method groups samples into biologically relevant categories, and enables the identification of genes and pathways most significantly associated to each phenotypic group, while allowing for the partici...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lozano JJ,Soler M,Bermudo R,Abia D,Fernandez PL,Thomson TM,Ortiz AR

更新日期：2005-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding polyphenism, the ability of a single genome to express multiple morphologically and behaviourally distinct phenotypes, is an important goal for evolutionary and developmental biology. Polyphenism has been key to the evolution of the Hymenoptera, and particularly the social Hymenoptera where the...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Colgan TJ,Carolan JC,Bridgett SJ,Sumner S,Blaxter ML,Brown MJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) in plants are encoded by a multigene family. ADHs participate in growth, development, and adaptation in many plant species, but the evolution and function of the ADH gene family in sugarcane is still unclear. RESULTS:In the present study, 151 ADH genes from 17 species including...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Su W,Ren Y,Wang D,Su Y,Feng J,Zhang C,Tang H,Xu L,Muhammad K,Que Y

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing use of DNA microarrays for genetical genomics studies generates a need for platforms with complete coverage of the genome. We have compared the effective gene coverage in the mouse genome of different commercial and noncommercial oligonucleotide microarray platforms by performing an in-house g...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Verdugo RA,Medrano JF

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transversions (Tv's) are more likely to alter the amino acid sequence of proteins than transitions (Ts's), and local deviations in the Ts:Tv ratio are indicative of evolutionary selection on genes. Whether the two different types of mutations have different effects in non-protein-coding sequences remains unk...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo C,McDowell IC,Nodzenski M,Scholtens DM,Allen AS,Lowe WL,Reddy TE

更新日期：2017-05-19 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:Many species of the genus Prevotella are pathogens that cause oral diseases. Prevotella intermedia is known to cause various oral disorders e.g. periodontal disease, periapical periodontitis and noma as well as colonize in the respiratory tract and be associated with cystic fibrosis and chronic bronchitis. I...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ruan Y,Shen L,Zou Y,Qi Z,Yin J,Jiang J,Guo L,He L,Chen Z,Tang Z,Qin S

更新日期：2015-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ATAC-seq (Assays for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing) is a recently developed technique for genome-wide analysis of chromatin accessibility. Compared to earlier methods for assaying chromatin accessibility, ATAC-seq is faster and easier to perform, does not require cross-linking, has higher...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ou J,Liu H,Yu J,Kelliher MA,Castilla LH,Lawson ND,Zhu LJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive evolution is one of the major goals in evolutionary biology. Recently, it has been revealed that gene copy number variations (GCNVs) constitute significant proportions of genomic diversities within natural populations. However, it has been unclear whether GCNVs are...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hirase S,Ozaki H,Iwasaki W

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bulldog calf syndrome is a lethal form of the inherited congenital chondrodysplasias. Among the progeny of the polled Holstein bull Energy P cases of lethal chondrodysplasia were observed. Pedigrees of the cases and the frequency of 3/8 cases among the offspring of Energy P at our teaching and experiment...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Reinartz S,Mohwinkel H,Sürie C,Hellige M,Feige K,Eikelberg D,Beineke A,Metzger J,Distl O

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-cell gene expression measurements offer opportunities in deriving mechanistic understanding of complex diseases, including cancer. However, due to the complex regulatory machinery of the cell, gene regulatory network (GRN) model inference based on such data still manifests significant uncertainty. RE...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hajiramezanali E,Imani M,Braga-Neto U,Qian X,Dougherty ER

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leaf blight caused by Calonectria spp. is one of the most destructive diseases to affect Eucalyptus nurseries and plantations. These pathogens mainly attack Eucalyptus, a tree with a diversity of secondary metabolites employed as defense-related phytoalexins. To unravel the fungal adaptive mechanisms to vari...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ye X,Zhong Z,Liu H,Lin L,Guo M,Guo W,Wang Z,Zhang Q,Feng L,Lu G,Zhang F,Chen Q

更新日期：2018-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marek's disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease in chickens caused by Marek's disease virus (MDV) and characterized by T cell lymphoma and infiltration of lymphoid cells into various organs such as liver, spleen, peripheral nerves and muscle. Resistance to MD and disease risk have long been thought to ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu Y,Luo J,Mitra A,Chang S,Tian F,Zhang H,Yuan P,Zhou H,Song J

更新日期：2011-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many transcripts have been generated due to the development of sequencing technologies, and lncRNA is an important type of transcript. Predicting lncRNAs from transcripts is a challenging and important task. Traditional experimental lncRNA prediction methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Efficient ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu Y,Zhao X,Liu S,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying the genotypes underlying human disease phenotypes is a fundamental step in human genetics and medicine. High-throughput genomic technologies provide thousands of genetic variants per individual. The causal genes of a specific phenotype are usually expected to be functionally close to each other. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Itan Y,Mazel M,Mazel B,Abhyankar A,Nitschke P,Quintana-Murci L,Boisson-Dupuis S,Boisson B,Abel L,Zhang SY,Casanova JL

更新日期：2014-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sheath blight (SB), caused by Rhizoctonia solani, is a common rice disease worldwide. Currently, rice cultivars with robust resistance to R. solani are still lacking. To provide theoretic basis for molecular breeding of R. solani-resistant rice cultivars, the changes of transcriptome profiles in response to ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shi W,Zhao SL,Liu K,Sun YB,Ni ZB,Zhang GY,Tang HS,Zhu JW,Wan BJ,Sun HQ,Dai JY,Sun MF,Yan GH,Wang AM,Zhu GY

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00