Parallel selection on gene copy number variations through evolution of three-spined stickleback genomes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Propionibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus epidermidis live in close proximity on human skin, and both bacterial species can be isolated from normal and acne vulgaris-affected skin sites. The antagonistic interactions between the two species are poorly understood, as well as the potential significance of bac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Christensen GJ,Scholz CF,Enghild J,Rohde H,Kilian M,Thürmer A,Brzuszkiewicz E,Lomholt HB,Brüggemann H

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic association studies that seek to explain the inheritance of complex traits typically fail to explain a majority of the heritability of the trait under study. Thus, we are left with a gap in the map from genotype to phenotype. Several approaches have been used to fill this gap, including those that at...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Harrison BR,Wang L,Gajda E,Hoffman EV,Chung BY,Pletcher SD,Raftery D,Promislow DEL

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S. aureus is one of the main pathogens responsible for the intra-mammary infection in dairy ruminants. Although much work has been carried out to understand the complex physiological and cellular events that occur in the mammary gland in response to S. aureus, the protective mechanisms are still poorly under...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cremonesi P,Capoferri R,Pisoni G,Del Corvo M,Strozzi F,Rupp R,Caillat H,Modesto P,Moroni P,Williams JL,Castiglioni B,Stella A

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyanobacteria are major primary producers in extreme cold ecosystems. Many lineages of cyanobacteria thrive in these harsh environments, but it is not fully understood how they survive in these conditions and whether they have evolved specific mechanisms of cold adaptation. Phormidesmis priestleyi is a cyano...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chrismas NA,Barker G,Anesio AM,Sánchez-Baracaldo P

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phytophthora species are oomycete plant pathogens with such major social and economic impact that genome sequences have been determined for Phytophthora infestans, P. sojae and P. ramorum. Pepsin-like aspartic proteinases (APs) are produced in a wide variety of species (from bacteria to humans) and contain c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kay J,Meijer HJ,ten Have A,van Kan JA

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Horseradish peroxidases (HRPs) from Armoracia rusticana have long been utilized as reporters in various diagnostic assays and histochemical stainings. Regardless of their increasing importance in the field of life sciences and suggested uses in medical applications, chemical synthesis and other industrial ap...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Näätsaari L,Krainer FW,Schubert M,Glieder A,Thallinger GG

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of power and reproducibility are caveats of genetic association studies of common complex diseases. Indeed, the heterogeneity of disease etiology demands that causal models consider the simultaneous involvement of multiple genes. Rothman's sufficient-cause model, which is well known in epidemiology, pro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lynn KS,Lu CH,Yang HY,Hsu WL,Pan WH

更新日期：2013-07-23 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:High-throughput omics technologies such as microarrays and next-generation sequencing (NGS) have become indispensable tools in biological research. Computational analysis and biological interpretation of omics data can pose significant challenges due to a number of factors, in particular the systems integrat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hermida L,Poussin C,Stadler MB,Gubian S,Sewer A,Gaidatzis D,Hotz HR,Martin F,Belcastro V,Cano S,Peitsch MC,Hoeng J

更新日期：2013-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is widely known that castration has a significant effect on the accumulation of adipose tissue. microRNAs (miRNAs) are known to be involved in fat deposition and to be regulated by the androgen-induced androgen receptor (AR). However, there is little understanding of the relationship between miRNAs and fa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bai Y,Huang JM,Liu G,Zhang JB,Wang JY,Liu CK,Fang MY

更新日期：2014-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paired-tag sequencing approaches are commonly used for the analysis of genome structure. However, mammalian genomes have a complex organization with a variety of repetitive elements that complicate comprehensive genome-wide analyses. RESULTS:Here, we systematically assessed the utility of paired-end and mat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： van Heesch S,Kloosterman WP,Lansu N,Ruzius FP,Levandowsky E,Lee CC,Zhou S,Goldstein S,Schwartz DC,Harkins TT,Guryev V,Cuppen E

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggressive behaviour is an important aspect in the daily lives of animals living in groups. Aggressive animals have advantages, such as better access to food or territories, and they produce more offspring than low ranking animals. The social hierarchy in chickens is measured using the 'pecking order' concep...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Buitenhuis B,Hedegaard J,Janss L,Sørensen P

更新日期：2009-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Armigeres subalbatus is a natural vector of the filarial worm Brugia pahangi, but it rapidly and proficiently kills Brugia malayi microfilariae by melanotic encapsulation. Because B. malayi and B. pahangi are morphologically and biologically similar, the Armigeres-Brugia system serves as a valuable model for...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aliota MT,Fuchs JF,Mayhew GF,Chen CC,Christensen BM

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial genomes comprise a small but critical component of the total DNA in eukaryotic organisms. They encode several key proteins for the cell's major energy producing apparatus, the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Additionally, their nucleotide and amino acid sequences are of great utility as marker...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lloyd RE,Foster PG,Guille M,Littlewood DT

更新日期：2012-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Starvation not only affects the nutritional and health status of the animals, but also the microbial composition in the host's intestine. Next-generation sequencing provides a unique opportunity to explore gut microbial communities and their interactions with hosts. However, studies on gut microbiomes have b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xia JH,Lin G,Fu GH,Wan ZY,Lee M,Wang L,Liu XJ,Yue GH

更新日期：2014-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The overwhelming amount of network data in functional genomics is making its visualization cluttered with jumbling nodes and edges. Such cluttered network visualization, which is known as "hair-balls", is significantly hindering data interpretation and analysis of researchers. Effective navigation approaches...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Praneenararat T,Takagi T,Iwasaki W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) is an important regulatory mechanism that greatly contributes to eukaryotic transcriptome diversity. A substantial amount of evidence has demonstrated that AS complexity is relevant to eukaryotic evolution, development, adaptation, and complexity. In this study, six teosinte and ten...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang J,Gao Y,Jia H,Liu L,Zhang D,Zhang Z

更新日期：2015-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bread wheat has a large complex genome that makes whole genome resequencing costly. Therefore, genome complexity reduction techniques such as sequence capture make re-sequencing cost effective. With a high-quality draft wheat genome now available it is possible to design capture probe sets and to use them to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Olohan L,Gardiner LJ,Lucaci A,Steuernagel B,Wulff B,Kenny J,Hall N,Hall A

更新日期：2018-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that downregulate gene expression by base pairing to the 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Up to now, rare information for the miRNAs is available in decapod crustaceans. Our previous studies showed that many miRNA-binding sit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Song YN,Shi LL,Liu ZQ,Qiu GF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eyes and skin are obvious retinoid target organs. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and retinoids are widely used to treat acne and psoriasis. However, more than 90% of total body retinol is stored in liver stellate cells. In addition, hepatocytes produce the largest amount of retinol binding p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： He Y,Gong L,Fang Y,Zhan Q,Liu HX,Lu Y,Guo GL,Lehman-McKeeman L,Fang J,Wan YJ

更新日期：2013-08-28 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:Diversity in rates of gene expression is essential for basic cell functions and is controlled by a variety of intricate mechanisms. Revealing general mechanisms that control gene expression is important for understanding normal and pathological cell functions and for improving the design of expression system...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moshonov S,Elfakess R,Golan-Mashiach M,Sinvani H,Dikstein R

更新日期：2008-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression by targeting specific mRNA species for degradation or interfering with translation. Specific miRNAs are key regulators of adipogenesis, and are expressed at different levels in adipose tissue from lean and obese mice. The deg...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Link JC,Hasin-Brumshtein Y,Cantor RM,Chen X,Arnold AP,Lusis AJ,Reue K

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hibernation is a physiological state exploited by many animals exposed to prolonged adverse environmental conditions associated with winter. Large changes in metabolism and cellular function occur, with many stress response pathways modulated to tolerate physiological challenges that might otherwise be letha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Capraro A,O'Meally D,Waters SA,Patel HR,Georges A,Waters PD

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Initial interest in Dechloromonas aromatica strain RCB arose from its ability to anaerobically degrade benzene. It is also able to reduce perchlorate and oxidize chlorobenzoate, toluene, and xylene, creating interest in using this organism for bioremediation. Little physiological data has been published for ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salinero KK,Keller K,Feil WS,Feil H,Trong S,Di Bartolo G,Lapidus A

更新日期：2009-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haloquadratum walsbyi represents up to 80% of cells in NaCl-saturated brines worldwide, but is notoriously difficult to maintain under laboratory conditions. In order to establish the extent of genetic diversity in a natural population of this microbe, we screened a H. walsbyi enriched metagenomic fosmid lib...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Martin-Cuadrado AB,Pašić L,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A systems toxicology investigation comparing and integrating transcriptomic and proteomic results was conducted to develop holistic effects characterizations for the wildlife bird model, Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) dosed with the explosives degradation product 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT)....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gust KA,Nanduri B,Rawat A,Wilbanks MS,Ang CY,Johnson DR,Pendarvis K,Chen X,Quinn MJ Jr,Johnson MS,Burgess SC,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common forms of cancer associated with the presence of precancerous oral leukoplakia. Given the poor prognosis associated with oral leukoplakia, and the difficulties in distinguishing it from cancer lesions, there is an urgent need to elucidate the molec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Z,Feng X,Liu X,Jiang L,Zeng X,Ji N,Li J,Li L,Chen Q

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Panax notoginseng (Burk) F.H. Chen is important medicinal plant of the Araliacease family. Triterpene saponins are the bioactive constituents in P. notoginseng. However, available genomic information regarding this plant is limited. Moreover, details of triterpene saponin biosynthesis in the Panax species ar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo H,Sun C,Sun Y,Wu Q,Li Y,Song J,Niu Y,Cheng X,Xu H,Li C,Liu J,Steinmetz A,Chen S

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) is able to induce a variety of biological responses in the nervous system including inflammation and neuroprotection. Human astrocytoma cells U373 have been widely used as a model for inflammatory cytokine actions in the nervous system. Here we used cDNA microarrays to analy...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schwamborn J,Lindecke A,Elvers M,Horejschi V,Kerick M,Rafigh M,Pfeiffer J,Prüllage M,Kaltschmidt B,Kaltschmidt C

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00