Comparative analysis of surface-exposed virulence factors of Acinetobacter baumannii.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is a devastating disease causing tremendous yield loss in rice production. The public availability of the complete genome sequence of M. grisea provides ample opportunities to understand the molecular mechanism of its pathogenesis on rice plants a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gowda M,Venu RC,Raghupathy MB,Nobuta K,Li H,Wing R,Stahlberg E,Couglan S,Haudenschild CD,Dean R,Nahm BH,Meyers BC,Wang GL

更新日期：2006-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid species whose ancestral genomes are most likely derived from the A-genome species, A. duranensis, and the B-genome species, A. ipaensis. The very recent (several millennia) evolutionary origin of A. hypogaea has imposed a bottleneck for allelic and ph...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nagy ED,Guo Y,Tang S,Bowers JE,Okashah RA,Taylor CA,Zhang D,Khanal S,Heesacker AF,Khalilian N,Farmer AD,Carrasquilla-Garcia N,Penmetsa RV,Cook D,Stalker HT,Nielsen N,Ozias-Akins P,Knapp SJ

更新日期：2012-09-11 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

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:Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Until very recently, cucumber genetic and genomic resources, especially molecular markers, have been very limited, impeding progress of cucumber breeding efforts. Microsatellites are short tandemly repeated DNA sequences, which are freque...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cavagnaro PF,Senalik DA,Yang L,Simon PW,Harkins TT,Kodira CD,Huang S,Weng Y

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obtaining reliable and reproducible two-color microarray gene expression data is critically important for understanding the biological significance of perturbations made on a cellular system. Microarray design, RNA preparation and labeling, hybridization conditions and data acquisition and analysis are varia...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Novoradovskaya N,Whitfield ML,Basehore LS,Novoradovsky A,Pesich R,Usary J,Karaca M,Wong WK,Aprelikova O,Fero M,Perou CM,Botstein D,Braman J

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying the set of intrinsically conserved genes, or the genomic core, among related genomes is crucial for understanding prokaryotic genomes where horizontal gene transfers are common. Although core genome identification appears to be obvious among very closely related genomes, it becomes more difficult...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Uchiyama I

更新日期：2008-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NOD26-like intrinsic proteins (NIPs) that belong to the aquaporin superfamily are plant-specific and exhibit a similar three-dimensional structure. Experimental evidences however revealed that functional divergence should have extensively occurred among NIP genes. It is therefore intriguing to further invest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Wang H,Zhang Z,Wu J,Feng Y,Zhu Z

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acinetobacter baumannii has recently emerged as a significant global pathogen, with a surprisingly rapid acquisition of antibiotic resistance and spread within hospitals and health care institutions. This study examines the genomic content of three A. baumannii strains isolated from distinct body sites. Isol...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sahl JW,Johnson JK,Harris AD,Phillippy AM,Hsiao WW,Thom KA,Rasko DA

更新日期：2011-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult neurogenesis, which is the continual production of new neurons in the mature brain, demonstrates the strikingly plastic nature of the nervous system. Adult neural stem cells and their neural precursors, collectively referred to as neural progenitor cells (NPCs), are present in the subgranular zone (SGZ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Poon A,Goldowitz D

更新日期：2014-03-19 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:Following the association of Cronobacter spp. to several publicized fatal outbreaks in neonatal intensive care units of meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 requested the establishment of a molecular typing scheme to enable the international control of the org...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Forsythe SJ,Dickins B,Jolley KA

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) is an economically important plant forming organogenic nodules which can be used for genetic transformation and micropropagation. We are interested in the mechanisms underlying reprogramming of cells through stress and hormone treatments. RESULTS:An integrated molecular and metabolo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fortes AM,Santos F,Choi YH,Silva MS,Figueiredo A,Sousa L,Pessoa F,Santos BA,Sebastiana M,Palme K,Malhó R,Verpoorte R,Pais MS

更新日期：2008-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-component systems (TCS) play critical roles in sensing and responding to environmental cues. Azospirillum is a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium living in the rhizosphere of many important crops. Despite numerous studies about its plant beneficial properties, little is known about how the bacterium s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Borland S,Oudart A,Prigent-Combaret C,Brochier-Armanet C,Wisniewski-Dyé F

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic diversity within a species reflects population evolution, ecology, and ability to adapt. Genome-wide population surveys of both natural and introduced populations provide insights into genetic diversity, the evolutionary processes and the genetic basis underlying local adaptation. Grass carp is the m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shen Y,Wang L,Fu J,Xu X,Yue GH,Li J

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased focus surrounds identifying patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who will benefit from treatment with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). EGFR mutation, gene copy number, coexpression of ErbB proteins and ligands, and epithelial to mesenchy...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Balko JM,Potti A,Saunders C,Stromberg A,Haura EB,Black EP

更新日期：2006-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding how and why genetic variation is partitioned across geographic space is of fundamental importance to understanding the nature of biological species. How geographical isolation and local adaptation contribute to the formation of ecotypically differentiated groups of plants is just beginning to b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gould BA,Palacio-Mejia JD,Jenkins J,Mamidi S,Barry K,Schmutz J,Juenger TE,Lowry DB

更新日期：2018-11-01 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:Sorghum belongs to the tribe of the Andropogoneae that includes potential biofuel crops like switchgrass, Miscanthus and successful biofuel crops like corn and sugarcane. However, from a genomics point of view sorghum has compared to these other species a simpler genome because it lacks the additional rounds...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Calviño M,Bruggmann R,Messing J

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advance of new massively parallel genotyping technologies, quantitative trait loci (QTL) fine mapping and map-based cloning become more achievable in identifying genes for important and complex traits. Development of high-density genetic markers in the QTL regions of specific mapping populations is ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wu X,Ren C,Joshi T,Vuong T,Xu D,Nguyen HT

更新日期：2010-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic inversion is one type of structural variations (SVs) and is known to play an important biological role. An established problem in sequence data analysis is calling inversions from high-throughput sequence data. It is more difficult to detect inversions because they are surrounded by duplication or ot...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wu Z,Wu Y,Gao J

更新日期：2020-03-05 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:Low iron bioavailability is a common feature of ocean surface water and therefore micro-algae developed original strategies to optimize iron uptake and metabolism. The marine picoeukaryotic green alga Ostreococcus tauri is a very good model for studying physiological and genetic aspects of the adaptation of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lelandais G,Scheiber I,Paz-Yepes J,Lozano JC,Botebol H,Pilátová J,Žárský V,Léger T,Blaiseau PL,Bowler C,Bouget FY,Camadro JM,Sutak R,Lesuisse E

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia pecorum is an important pathogen of domesticated livestock including sheep, cattle and pigs. This pathogen is also a key factor in the decline of the koala in Australia. We sequenced the genomes of three koala C. pecorum strains, isolated from the urogenital tracts and conjunctiva of diseased koala...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bachmann NL,Fraser TA,Bertelli C,Jelocnik M,Gillett A,Funnell O,Flanagan C,Myers GS,Timms P,Polkinghorne A

更新日期：2014-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current technologies in next-generation sequencing are offering high throughput reads at low costs, but still suffer from various sequencing errors. Although pyro- and ion semiconductor sequencing both have the advantage of delivering long and high quality reads, problems might occur when sequencing homopoly...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ivády G,Madar L,Dzsudzsák E,Koczok K,Kappelmayer J,Krulisova V,Macek M Jr,Horváth A,Balogh I

更新日期：2018-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As crucial markers in identifying biological elements and processes in mammalian genomes, CpG islands (CGI) play important roles in DNA methylation, gene regulation, epigenetic inheritance, gene mutation, chromosome inactivation and nuclesome retention. The generally accepted criteria of CGI rely on: (a) %G+...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu N,Guo X,Zelikovsky A,Pan Y

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertions/deletions (InDels) are the major genetic variations and are distributed extensively across the whole plant genome. However, few studies of these variations have been conducted in the long-lived perennial tea plant. RESULTS:In this study, we investigated ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu S,An Y,Tong W,Qin X,Samarina L,Guo R,Xia X,Wei C

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date several studies have sought to catalog the full suite of antibodies that humans naturally produce against single antigens or other specificities (repertoire). Here we analyze the properties of all sequenced repertoires in order to better understand the specificity of antibody responses. Specifically,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Arnaout RA

更新日期：2005-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important cereal crop for dryland areas in the United States and for small-holder farmers in Africa. Natural variation of sorghum grain composition (protein, fat, and starch) between accessions can be used for crop improvement, but the genetic controls are still un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rhodes DH,Hoffmann L Jr,Rooney WL,Herald TJ,Bean S,Boyles R,Brenton ZW,Kresovich S

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The only known albino gorilla, named Snowflake, was a male wild born individual from Equatorial Guinea who lived at the Barcelona Zoo for almost 40 years. He was diagnosed with non-syndromic oculocutaneous albinism, i.e. white hair, light eyes, pink skin, photophobia and reduced visual acuity. Despite previo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Prado-Martinez J,Hernando-Herraez I,Lorente-Galdos B,Dabad M,Ramirez O,Baeza-Delgado C,Morcillo-Suarez C,Alkan C,Hormozdiari F,Raineri E,Estellé J,Fernandez-Callejo M,Valles M,Ritscher L,Schöneberg T,de la Calle-Mustienes E

更新日期：2013-05-31 00:00:00