Sequence comparison of prefrontal cortical brain transcriptome from a tame and an aggressive silver fox (Vulpes vulpes).

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carboxylesterase is a multifunctional superfamily and ubiquitous in all living organisms, including animals, plants, insects, and microbes. It plays important roles in xenobiotic detoxification, and pheromone degradation, neurogenesis and regulating development. Previous studies mainly used Dipteran Drosophi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu QY,Lu C,Li WL,Xiang ZH,Zhang Z

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a lifestyle disease. Plant metabolomics has been exercised for understanding the fine-tuning of the potential pathways to surmount the adverse effects of drought stress. A broad spectrum of morphological and metabolic responses from seven Triticeae species including wild types with different droug...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ullah N,Yüce M,Neslihan Öztürk Gökçe Z,Budak H

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large mammals are capable of thermoregulation shortly after birth due to the presence of brown adipose tissue (BAT). The majority of BAT disappears after birth and is replaced by white adipose tissue (WAT). RESULTS:We analyzed the postnatal transformation of adipose in sheep with a time course study of the ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Basse AL,Dixen K,Yadav R,Tygesen MP,Qvortrup K,Kristiansen K,Quistorff B,Gupta R,Wang J,Hansen JB

更新日期：2015-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune disease in which T cells have a predominant role in initiating and perpetuating the chronic inflammation in skin. However, the mechanisms that regulate T cell activation in psoriasis are still incompletely understood. The objective of the present study was to characterize th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Palau N,Julià A,Ferrándiz C,Puig L,Fonseca E,Fernández E,López-Lasanta M,Tortosa R,Marsal S

更新日期：2013-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, pioneering expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies on single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data have revealed new and cell-specific regulatory single nucleotide variants (SNVs). Here, we present an alternative QTL-related approach applicable to transcribed SNV loci from scRNA-seq data: ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu H,Prashant NM,Spurr LF,Bousounis P,Alomran N,Ibeawuchi H,Sein J,Słowiński P,Tsaneva-Atanasova K,Horvath A

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During eukaryotic genome evolution, tandem gene duplication is the most frequent event giving rise to clustered gene families. However, how expression divergence between tandemly duplicated genes has emerged and maintained remain unclear. In particular, it is unknown if epigenetic regulators have been involv...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liao BY,Chang A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic sequences that randomly propagate within their host's genome. This mobility has the potential to affect gene transcription and cause disease. However, TEs are technically challenging to identify, which complicates efforts to assess the impact of TE insertions on...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kvikstad EM,Piazza P,Taylor JC,Lunter G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many individual genes associated with brain imaging quantitative traits (QTs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However single marker level association discovery may not be able to address the underlying biological interactions with disease mechanism. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Meng X,Li J,Zhang Q,Chen F,Bian C,Yao X,Yan J,Xu Z,Risacher SL,Saykin AJ,Liang H,Shen L,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteriophages that infect the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been classified into several groups. One of them, which includes temperate phage particles with icosahedral heads and long flexible tails, bears genomes whose architecture and replication mechanism, but not their nucleotide seq...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cazares A,Mendoza-Hernández G,Guarneros G

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Babesia bovis is an apicomplexan parasite that causes babesiosis in infected cattle. Genomes of pathogens contain promising information that can facilitate the development of methods for controlling infections. Although the genome of B. bovis is publically available, annotated gene models are not highly reli...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yamagishi J,Wakaguri H,Yokoyama N,Yamashita R,Suzuki Y,Xuan X,Igarashi I

更新日期：2014-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Availability of molecular markers has proven to be an efficient tool in facilitating progress in plant breeding, which is particularly important in the case of less researched crops such as cotton. Considering the obvious advantages of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion-deletion polymorphis...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li X,Gao W,Guo H,Zhang X,Fang DD,Lin Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regulatory networks often employ the model that attributes changes in gene expression levels, as observed across different cellular conditions, to changes in the activity of transcription factors (TFs). Although the actual conditions that trigger a change in TF activity should form an integral part of the ge...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Knijnenburg TA,de Winde JH,Daran JM,Daran-Lapujade P,Pronk JT,Reinders MJ,Wessels LF

更新日期：2007-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Magnesium (Mg)-deficiency is frequently observed in Citrus plantations and is responsible for the loss of productivity and poor fruit quality. Knowledge on the effects of Mg-deficiency on upstream targets is scarce. Seedlings of 'Xuegan' [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] were irrigated with Mg-deficient (0 mM Mg...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Peng HY,Qi YP,Lee J,Yang LT,Guo P,Jiang HX,Chen LS

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parasitoid wasps are well-known natural enemies of major agricultural pests and arthropod borne diseases. The parasitoid wasp Macrocentrus cingulum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) has been widely used to control the notorious insect pests Ostrinia furnacalis (Asian Corn Borer) and O. nubilalis (European corn borer...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yin C,Li M,Hu J,Lang K,Chen Q,Liu J,Guo D,He K,Dong Y,Luo J,Song Z,Walters JR,Zhang W,Li F,Chen X

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transporter proteins are one of an organism's primary interfaces with the environment. The expressed set of transporters mediates cellular metabolic capabilities and influences signal transduction pathways and regulatory networks. The functional annotation of most transporters is currently limited to general...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Giuliani SE,Frank AM,Corgliano DM,Seifert C,Hauser L,Collart FR

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida is a ubiquitous psychrophilic waterborne bacterium and a fish pathogen. The numerous mobile elements, especially insertion sequences (IS), in its genome promote rearrangements that impact its phenotype. One of the main virulence factors of this bacterium, its type thr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tanaka KH,Vincent AT,Emond-Rheault JG,Adamczuk M,Frenette M,Charette SJ

更新日期：2017-07-12 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 contrast to unidirectional promoters wherein antisense transcription results in short transcripts which are rapidly degraded, bidirectional promoters produce mature transcripts in both sense and antisense orientation. To understand the molecular mechanism of how productive bidirectional transcription is r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jangid RK,Kelkar A,Muley VY,Galande S

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that human populations have experienced a complex demographic history, including a recent epoch of rapid population growth that led to an excess in the proportion of rare genetic variants in humans today. This excess can impact the burden of private mutations for each individual, de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gao F,Keinan A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate adipose tissue metabolism, however, their function on testosterone deficiency related obesity in humans is less understood. For this research, intact and castrated male pigs are the best model animal because of their similar proportional organ sizes, cardiovascular sys...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Hua L,Chen J,Zhang J,Bai X,Gao B,Li C,Shi Z,Sheng W,Gao Y,Xing B

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Floral transition is a critical event in the life cycle of a flowering plant as it determines its reproductive success. Despite extensive studies of specific genes that regulate this process, the global changes in transcript expression profiles at the point when a vegetative meristem transitions into an infl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Klepikova AV,Logacheva MD,Dmitriev SE,Penin AA

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural contamination and anthropogenic pollution of soils are likely to be major determinants of functioning and survival of keystone invertebrate taxa. Soil animals will have both evolutionary adaptation and genetically programmed responses to these toxic chemicals, but mechanistic understanding of such is...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Owen J,Hedley BA,Svendsen C,Wren J,Jonker MJ,Hankard PK,Lister LJ,Stürzenbaum SR,Morgan AJ,Spurgeon DJ,Blaxter ML,Kille P

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dinoflagellates are unicellular marine and freshwater eukaryotes. They possess large nuclear genomes (1.5-245 gigabases) and produce structurally unique and biologically active polyketide secondary metabolites. Although polyketide biosynthesis is well studied in terrestrial and freshwater organisms, only rec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Beedessee G,Hisata K,Roy MC,Satoh N,Shoguchi E

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gaucher disease is caused by defective glucocerebrosidase activity and the consequent accumulation of glucosylceramide. The pathogenic pathways resulting from lipid laden macrophages (Gaucher cells) in visceral organs and their abnormal functions are obscure. RESULTS:To elucidate this pathogenic pathway, de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu YH,Jia L,Quinn B,Zamzow M,Stringer K,Aronow B,Sun Y,Zhang W,Setchell KD,Grabowski GA

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LEF1/TCF transcription factors and their activator β-catenin are effectors of the canonical Wnt pathway. Although Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been implicated in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders, its possible role in the adult brain remains enigmatic. To address this issue, we sought to identify th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wisniewska MB,Nagalski A,Dabrowski M,Misztal K,Kuznicki J

更新日期：2012-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Membrane proteins constitute up to 30% of the human proteome. These proteins have special properties because the transmembrane segments are embedded into lipid bilayer while extramembranous parts are in different environments. Membrane proteins have several functions and are involved in numerous diseases. A ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Orioli T,Vihinen M

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Polima (pol) system of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) and its fertility restoration gene Rfp have been used in hybrid breeding in Brassica napus, which has greatly improved the yield of rapeseed. However, the mechanism of the male sterility transition in pol CMS remains to be determined. RESULTS:To in...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： An H,Yang Z,Yi B,Wen J,Shen J,Tu J,Ma C,Fu T

更新日期：2014-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a serious heavy metal (HM) soil pollutant. To alleviate or even eliminate HM pollution in soil, environmental-friendly methods are applied. One is that special plants are cultivated to absorb the HM in the contaminated soil. As an excellent economical plant with ornamental value and sound ada...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang MQ,Bai ZY,Xiao YF,Li Y,Liu QL,Zhang L,Pan YZ,Jiang BB,Zhang F

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cichlid fishes have evolved remarkably diverse reproductive, social, and feeding behaviors. Cell-to-cell signaling molecules, notably neuropeptides and peptide hormones, are known to regulate these behaviors across vertebrates. This class of signaling molecules derives from prohormone genes that have undergo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hu CK,Southey BR,Romanova EV,Maruska KP,Sweedler JV,Fernald RD

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous investigations have compared gene expression microarray platforms, preprocessing methods and batch correction algorithms using constructed spike-in or dilution datasets, there remains a paucity of studies examining the properties of microarray data using diverse biological samples. Most mic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Richard AC,Lyons PA,Peters JE,Biasci D,Flint SM,Lee JC,McKinney EF,Siegel RM,Smith KG

更新日期：2014-08-04 00:00:00