Involvements of PCD and changes in gene expression profile during self-pruning of spring shoots in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis).

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear whether improving feed efficiency by selection for low residual feed intake (RFI) compromises pigs' immunocompetence. Here, we aimed at investigating whether pig lines divergently selected for RFI had different inflammatory responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure, regarding to clinical p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu H,Feye KM,Nguyen YT,Rakhshandeh A,Loving CL,Dekkers JCM,Gabler NK,Tuggle CK

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant hospital pathogen, particularly due to the dissemination of highly multidrug resistant isolates. Genome data have revealed that A. baumannii is highly genetically diverse, which correlates with major variations seen at the phenotypic level. Thus far, comparative genom...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Eijkelkamp BA,Stroeher UH,Hassan KA,Paulsen IT,Brown MH

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) and common sole (S. solea) are two economically and evolutionary important flatfish species both in fisheries and aquaculture. Although some genomic resources and tools were recently described in these species, further sequencing efforts are required to establish a comple...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Benzekri H,Armesto P,Cousin X,Rovira M,Crespo D,Merlo MA,Mazurais D,Bautista R,Guerrero-Fernández D,Fernandez-Pozo N,Ponce M,Infante C,Zambonino JL,Nidelet S,Gut M,Rebordinos L,Planas JV,Bégout ML,Claros MG,Manchado

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial spore germination is a developmental process during which all required metabolic pathways are restored to transfer cells from their dormant state into vegetative growth. Streptomyces are soil dwelling filamentous bacteria with complex life cycle, studied mostly for they ability to synthesize second...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bobek J,Strakova E,Zikova A,Vohradsky J

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

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:Improvements in poultry production within the past 50 years have led to increased muscle yield and growth rate, which may be contributing to an increased rate and development of new muscle disorders in chickens. Previously reported muscle disorders and conditions are generally associated with poor meat quali...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mutryn MF,Brannick EM,Fu W,Lee WR,Abasht B

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of genomic tools to characterize wildlife populations has increased in recent years. In the past, genetic characterization has been accomplished with more traditional genetic tools (e.g., microsatellites). The explosion of genomic methods and the subsequent creation of large SNP datasets has led to the p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zimmerman SJ,Aldridge CL,Oyler-McCance SJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New and improved antimicrobial countermeasures are urgently needed to counteract increased resistance to existing antimicrobial treatments and to combat currently untreatable or new emerging infectious diseases. We demonstrate that computational comparative genomics, together with experimental screening, can...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Stubben CJ,Duffield ML,Cooper IA,Ford DC,Gans JD,Karlyshev AV,Lingard B,Oyston PC,de Rochefort A,Song J,Wren BW,Titball RW,Wolinsky M

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Banana wilt disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4), is one of the most devastating diseases in banana (Musa spp.). Foc is a soil borne pathogen that causes rot of the roots or wilt of leaves by colonizing the xylem vessels. The dual RNA sequencing is used to simultaneo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Wang X,Li C,Sun J,Li S,Peng M

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Second-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized our ability to recover genetic information from the past, allowing the characterization of the first complete genomes from past individuals and extinct species. Recently, third generation Helicos sequencing platforms, which perform true Single-Mol...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ginolhac A,Vilstrup J,Stenderup J,Rasmussen M,Stiller M,Shapiro B,Zazula G,Froese D,Steinmann KE,Thompson JF,Al-Rasheid KA,Gilbert TM,Willerslev E,Orlando L

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-expressing genes tend to cluster in eukaryotic genomes. This paper analyzes correlation between the proximity of eukaryotic genes and their transcriptional expression pattern in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome using available microarray data and gene annotation. RESULTS:The analyses show that neighbou...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ng YK,Wu W,Zhang L

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies show that galanin neurons in ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO-Gal) are essential for sleep regulation. Here, we explored the transcriptional regulation of the VLPO-Gal neurons in sleep by comparing their transcriptional responses between sleeping mice and those kept awake, sacrificed at ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo X,Gao X,Keenan BT,Zhu J,Sarantopoulou D,Lian J,Galante RJ,Grant GR,Pack AI

更新日期：2020-09-14 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest genome structure is largely conserved between Eucalyptus species. However, it is unknown if this conservation extends to more divergent eucalypt taxa. We performed comparative genomics between the eucalypt genera Eucalyptus and Corymbia. Our results will facilitate transfer of genomi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Butler JB,Vaillancourt RE,Potts BM,Lee DJ,King GJ,Baten A,Shepherd M,Freeman JS

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental heterogeneity continuously produces a selective pressure that results in genomic variation among organisms; understanding this relationship remains a challenge in evolutionary biology. Here, we evaluated the degree of genome-environmental association of seven stonefly species across a wide geog...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gamboa M,Watanabe K

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parasites employ proteases to evade host immune systems, feed and replicate and are often the target of anti-parasite strategies to disrupt these interactions. Myxozoans are obligate cnidarian parasites, alternating between invertebrate and fish hosts. Their genes are highly divergent from other metazoans, a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hartigan A,Kosakyan A,Pecková H,Eszterbauer E,Holzer AS

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is strong but mostly circumstantial evidence that genetic factors modulate the severity of influenza infection in humans. Using genetically diverse but fully inbred strains of mice it has been shown that host sequence variants have a strong influence on the severity of influenza A disease progression. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nedelko T,Kollmus H,Klawonn F,Spijker S,Lu L,Heßman M,Alberts R,Williams RW,Schughart K

更新日期：2012-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts towards utilisation of diets without fish meal (FM) or fish oil (FO) in finfish aquaculture have been being made for more than two decades. Metabolic responses to substitution of fishery products have been shown to impact growth performance and immune system of fish as well as their subsequent nutrit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Geay F,Ferraresso S,Zambonino-Infante JL,Bargelloni L,Quentel C,Vandeputte M,Kaushik S,Cahu CL,Mazurais D

更新日期：2011-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Matrix attachment regions (MAR) are the sites on genomic DNA that interact with the nuclear matrix. There is increasing evidence for the involvement of MAR in regulation of gene expression. The unsuitability of experimental detection of MAR for genome-wide analyses has led to the development of computational...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Anthony A,Blaxter M

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolactin is a polypeptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that plays an essential role in lactation, tissue growth, and suppressing apoptosis to increase cell survival. Prolactin serves as a key player in many life-critical processes, including immune system and reproduction. Prolactin is a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Staley LA,Ebbert MT,Parker S,Bailey M,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.,Ridge PG,Goate AM,Kauwe JS

更新日期：2016-06-29 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:Ramularia collo-cygni is a newly important, foliar fungal pathogen of barley that causes the disease Ramularia leaf spot. The fungus exhibits a prolonged endophytic growth stage before switching life habit to become an aggressive, necrotrophic pathogen that causes significant losses to green leaf area and he...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McGrann GR,Andongabo A,Sjökvist E,Trivedi U,Dussart F,Kaczmarek M,Mackenzie A,Fountaine JM,Taylor JM,Paterson LJ,Gorniak K,Burnett F,Kanyuka K,Hammond-Kosack KE,Rudd JJ,Blaxter M,Havis ND

更新日期：2016-08-09 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: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: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:Fungal plant pathogens belonging to the genus Venturia cause damaging scab diseases of members of the Rosaceae. In terms of economic impact, the most important of these are V. inaequalis, which infects apple, and V. pirina, which is a pathogen of European pear. Given that Venturia fungi colonise the sub-cuti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deng CH,Plummer KM,Jones DAB,Mesarich CH,Shiller J,Taranto AP,Robinson AJ,Kastner P,Hall NE,Templeton MD,Bowen JK

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As is true for many other antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) are currently being assessed for their susceptibility to phage therapy as an antimicrobial treatment. The objective of this study was to perform genomic and limited functional characteriz...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lynch KH,Abdu AH,Schobert M,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2013-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skeletal muscle mass can be markedly reduced through a process called atrophy, as a consequence of many diseases or critical physiological and environmental situations. Atrophy is characterised by loss of contractile proteins and reduction of fiber volume. Although in the last decade the molecular aspects un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Calura E,Cagnin S,Raffaello A,Laveder P,Lanfranchi G,Romualdi C

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the development of several new technologies using synthetic biology, it is possible to engineer genetically intractable organisms including Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies capri (Mmc), by cloning the intact bacterial genome in yeast, using the host yeast's genetic tools to modify the cloned genome, and s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chandran S,Noskov VN,Segall-Shapiro TH,Ma L,Whiteis C,Lartigue C,Jores J,Vashee S,Chuang RY

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant-bacteria associations have been extensively studied for their potential in increasing crop productivity in a sustainable manner. Serratia marcescens is a species of Enterobacteriaceae found in a wide range of environments, including soil. RESULTS:Here we describe the genome sequencing and assessment o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Matteoli FP,Passarelli-Araujo H,Reis RJA,da Rocha LO,de Souza EM,Aravind L,Olivares FL,Venancio TM

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00