The repetitive component of the sunflower genome as shown by different procedures for assembling next generation sequencing reads.

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:Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is an important oil seed crop in the Brassicaceae family. Chemical induced male sterility (CIMS) is one of the widely used method to produce the hybrids in B. napus. Identification of the key genes and pathways that involved in CIMS were important to understand the underlying molecu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ning L,Lin Z,Gu J,Gan L,Li Y,Wang H,Miao L,Zhang L,Wang B,Li M

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is commonly grouped into eight diploid genomic groups and an allotetraploid genomic group, AD. The mitochondrial genomes supply new information to understand both the evolution process and the mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility. Based on previously released mitochondrial genomes ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen Z,Nie H,Wang Y,Pei H,Li S,Zhang L,Hua J

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitochondrial genomes of higher plants vary remarkably in size, structure and sequence content, as demonstrated by the accumulation and activity of repetitive DNA sequences. Incompatibility between mitochondrial genome and nuclear genome leads to non-functional male reproductive organs and results in cyt...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li S,Chen Z,Zhao N,Wang Y,Nie H,Hua J

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of noncoding small RNAs (sRNAs) that are 20-24 nucleotides (nt) in length. Extensive studies have indicated that miRNAs play versatile roles in plants, functioning in processes such as growth, development and stress responses. Chilling is a common abiotic stress that seriously ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cao X,Wu Z,Jiang F,Zhou R,Yang Z

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain represents a ubiquitous structural fold that is involved in bacterial sensing and adaptation systems, including several virulence related functions. Although PAS domains and the subclass of PhoQ-DcuS-CitA (PDC) domains have a common structure, there is limited amino acid sequenc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shah N,Gaupp R,Moriyama H,Eskridge KM,Moriyama EN,Somerville GA

更新日期：2013-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insect mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are the most extensively used genetic marker for evolutionary and population genetics studies of insects. The Pentatomoidea superfamily is economically important and the largest superfamily within Pentatomomorpha with over 7,000 species. To better understand the div...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yuan ML,Zhang QL,Guo ZL,Wang J,Shen YY

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-seq and small RNA-seq are powerful, quantitative tools to study gene regulation and function. Common high-throughput sequencing methods rely on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to expand the starting material, but not every molecule amplifies equally, causing some to be overrepresented. Unique molecular i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fu Y,Wu PH,Beane T,Zamore PD,Weng Z

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene composition, gene order and structure of the mitochondrial genome are remarkably stable across bilaterian animals. Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are a major exception to this genomic stability in that the canonical single chromosome with 37 genes found in almost all other bilaterians has been lost in...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cameron SL,Yoshizawa K,Mizukoshi A,Whiting MF,Johnson KP

更新日期：2011-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insertion sequences (IS) are small transposable elements, commonly found in bacterial genomes. Identifying the location of IS in bacterial genomes can be useful for a variety of purposes including epidemiological tracking and predicting antibiotic resistance. However IS are commonly present in multiple copie...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hawkey J,Hamidian M,Wick RR,Edwards DJ,Billman-Jacobe H,Hall RM,Holt KE

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tetraploid durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum Desf. Husnot) is an important crop which provides the raw material for pasta production and a valuable source of genetic diversity for breeding hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Future breeding efforts to enhance yield potential and climate re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Vendramin V,Ormanbekova D,Scalabrin S,Scaglione D,Maccaferri M,Martelli P,Salvi S,Jurman I,Casadio R,Cattonaro F,Tuberosa R,Massi A,Morgante M

更新日期：2019-04-10 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：BACKGROUND:Boar taint is observed in a high proportion of uncastrated male pigs and is characterized by an unpleasant odor/flavor in cooked meat, primarily caused by elevated levels of androstenone and skatole. Androstenone is a steroid produced in the testis in parallel with biosynthesis of other sex steroids like tes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Grindflek E,Lien S,Hamland H,Hansen MH,Kent M,van Son M,Meuwissen TH

更新日期：2011-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-genome sequencing is an important method to understand the genetic information, gene function, biological characteristics and survival mechanisms of organisms. Sequencing large genomes is very simple at present. However, we encountered a hard-to-sequence genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage PaP1. Sho...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lu S,Le S,Tan Y,Li M,Liu C,Zhang K,Huang J,Chen H,Rao X,Zhu J,Zou L,Ni Q,Li S,Wang J,Jin X,Hu Q,Yao X,Zhao X,Zhang L,Huang G,Hu F

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On a single strand of genomic DNA the number of As is usually about equal to the number of Ts (and similarly for Gs and Cs), but deviations have been noted for transcribed regions and origins of replication. RESULTS:The mouse genome is shown to have a segmented structure defined by strand bias. Transcriptio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Evans KJ

更新日期：2008-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor angiogenesis is a highly regulated process involving intercellular communication as well as the interactions of multiple downstream signal transduction pathways. Disrupting one or even a few angiogenesis pathways is often insufficient to achieve sustained therapeutic benefits due to the complexity of a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen Y,Wei T,Yan L,Lawrence F,Qian HR,Burkholder TP,Starling JJ,Yingling JM,Shou J

更新日期：2008-06-02 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: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:The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii establishes a life-long chronic infection within any warm-blooded host. After ingestion of an encysted parasite, T. gondii disseminates throughout the body as a rapidly replicating form during acute infection. Over time and after stimulation of the host i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pittman KJ,Aliota MT,Knoll LJ

更新日期：2014-09-20 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:RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and microarrays are two transcriptomics techniques aimed at the quantification of transcribed genes and their isoforms. Here we compare the latest Affymetrix HTA 2.0 microarray with Illumina 2000 RNA-seq for the analysis of patient samples - normal lung epithelium tissue and squamous...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nazarov PV,Muller A,Kaoma T,Nicot N,Maximo C,Birembaut P,Tran NL,Dittmar G,Vallar L

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fish under intensive culture conditions are exposed to a variety of acute and chronic stressors, including high rearing densities, sub-optimal water quality, and severe thermal fluctuations. Such stressors are inherent in aquaculture production and can induce physiological responses with adverse effects on t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sánchez CC,Weber GM,Gao G,Cleveland BM,Yao J,Rexroad CE 3rd

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fragile sites are the chromosomal regions that are susceptible to breakage, and their frequency varies among the human population. Based on the frequency of fragile site induction, they are categorized as common and rare fragile sites. Common fragile sites are sensitive to replication stress and often rearra...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kumar R,Nagpal G,Kumar V,Usmani SS,Agrawal P,Raghava GPS

更新日期：2019-04-18 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

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:The accurate determination of the genomic coordinates for a given gene - its gene model - is of vital importance to the utility of its annotation, and the accuracy of bioinformatic analyses derived from it. Currently-available methods of computational gene prediction, while on the whole successful, frequentl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dunne MP,Kelly S

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:JWB phytoplasma is a kind of insect-transmitted and uncultivable bacterial plant pathogen causeing a destructive Jujube disease. To date, no genome information about JWB phytoplasma has been published, which hindered its characterization at genomic level. To understand its pathogenicity and ecology, the geno...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Song L,Jiao Q,Yang S,Gao R,Lu X,Zhou G

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:Deciphering gene interaction networks (GINs) from time-course gene expression (TCGx) data is highly valuable to understand gene behaviors (e.g., activation, inhibition, time-lagged causality) at the system level. Existing methods usually use a global or local proximity measure to infer GINs from a single dat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Song R,Li J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) are genomic regions where identical haplotypes are inherited from each parent. Since their first detection due to technological advances in the late 1990s, ROHs have been shedding light on human population history and deciphering the genetic basis of monogenic and complex traits an...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ceballos FC,Hazelhurst S,Ramsay M

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene targeting by homology-directed repair (HDR) can precisely edit the genome and is a versatile tool for biomedical research. However, the efficiency of HDR-based modification is still low in many model organisms including zebrafish. Recently, long single-stranded DNA (lssDNA) molecules have been developed...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bai H,Liu L,An K,Lu X,Harrison M,Zhao Y,Yan R,Lu Z,Li S,Lin S,Liang F,Qin W

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00