Disk covering methods improve phylogenomic analyses.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite significant efforts from the research community, an extensive portion of the proteins encoded by human genes lack an assigned cellular function. Most metazoan proteins are composed of structural and/or functional domains, of which many appear in multiple proteins. Once a domain is characterized in on...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kemmer D,Podowski RM,Arenillas D,Lim J,Hodges E,Roth P,Sonnhammer EL,Höög C,Wasserman WW

更新日期：2006-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational methods that infer single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions from phenotype data may uncover new biological mechanisms in non-Mendelian diseases. However, practical aspects of such analysis face many problems. Present experimental studies typically use SNP arrays with hundreds of thousa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Toplak M,Curk T,Demsar J,Zupan B

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The orphan nuclear receptor TR4 (human testicular receptor 4 or NR2C2) plays a pivotal role in a variety of biological and metabolic processes. With no known ligand and few known target genes, the mode of TR4 function was unclear. RESULTS:We report the first genome-wide identification and characterization o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： O'Geen H,Lin YH,Xu X,Echipare L,Komashko VM,He D,Frietze S,Tanabe O,Shi L,Sartor MA,Engel JD,Farnham PJ

更新日期：2010-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chinese wild grapevine (Vitis amurensis) has remarkable cold stress tolerance, exceeding that of the common cultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.). RESULT:Here, we surveyed the expression dynamics of microRNAs (miRNAs) across Chinese wild grapevine (cv. Beibinghong) and cultivated grapevine (cv. Cabernet ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang P,Yang Y,Shi H,Wang Y,Ren F

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity and phenotypic traits associated with this condition exhibit significant heritability in natural populations of most organisms. While a number of genes and genetic pathways have been implicated to play a role in obesity associated traits, the genetic architecture that underlies the natural variation ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jumbo-Lucioni P,Ayroles JF,Chambers MM,Jordan KW,Leips J,Mackay TF,De Luca M

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemolymph plays key roles in honey bee molecule transport, immune defense, and in monitoring the physiological condition. There is a lack of knowledge regarding how the proteome achieves these biological missions for both the western and eastern honey bees (Apis mellifera and Apis cerana). A time-resolved pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng M,Ramadan H,Han B,Fang Y,Li J

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human genetic variation produces the wide range of phenotypic differences that make us individual. However, little is known about the distribution of variation in the most conserved functional regions of the human genome. We examined whether different subsets of the conserved human genome have been subjected...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Davidson S,Starkey A,MacKenzie A

更新日期：2009-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distinguishing orthologous and paralogous relationships between genes across multiple species is essential for comparative genomic analyses. Various computational approaches have been developed to resolve these evolutionary relationships, but strong trade-offs between precision and recall of orthologue predi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rane RV,Oakeshott JG,Nguyen T,Hoffmann AA,Lee SF

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lower eggshell quality in the late laying period leads to economic loss. It is a major threat to the quality and safety of egg products. Age-related variations in ultrastructure were thought to induce this deterioration. Eggshell formation is a highly complex process under precise regulation of genes and bio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng J,Zhang HJ,Wu SG,Qi GH,Wang J

更新日期：2020-11-09 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:Nuclear receptors are hormone-regulated transcription factors whose signaling controls numerous aspects of development and physiology. Many receptors recognize DNA hormone response elements formed by direct repeats of RGKTCA motifs separated by 1 to 5 bp (DR1-DR5). Although many known such response elements ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Laperriere D,Wang TT,White JH,Mader S

更新日期：2007-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brown and white adipose tissues (BAT and WAT) play critical roles in controlling energy homeostasis and in the development of obesity and diabetes. The mouse Fat-Specific protein 27 (FSP27), a member of the cell death-inducing DFF45-like effector (CIDE) family, is expressed in both BAT and WAT and is associa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li D,Zhang Y,Xu L,Zhou L,Wang Y,Xue B,Wen Z,Li P,Sang J

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyploidy is an important phenomenon in plants because of its roles in agricultural and forestry production as well as in plant tolerance to environmental stresses. Tetraploid black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) is a polyploid plant and a pioneer tree species due to its wide ranging adaptability to adver...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo Q,Peng M,Zhang X,Lei P,Ji X,Chow W,Meng F,Sun G

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two strains of the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes), with markedly different behavioral phenotypes, have been developed by long-term selection for behavior. Foxes from the tame strain exhibit friendly behavior towards humans, paralleling the sociability of canine puppies, whereas foxes from the aggressive strain a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kukekova AV,Johnson JL,Teiling C,Li L,Oskina IN,Kharlamova AV,Gulevich RG,Padte R,Dubreuil MM,Vladimirova AV,Shepeleva DV,Shikhevich SG,Sun Q,Ponnala L,Temnykh SV,Trut LN,Acland GM

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The membrane protein CD46, a ubiquitous cell surface pathogen receptor, can bind Streptococcus to trigger cell autophagy, which is a critical step in the control of infection. RESULTS:In this study, we found a new splice variant designated CD46 transcript variant (CD46-TV). The splice variant is characteriz...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang X,Zhong J,Gao Y,Ju Z,Huang J

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi is an obligate intracellular eukaryotic pathogen with a small nuclear genome (2.9 Mbp) consisting of 11 chromosomes. Although each chromosome end is known to contain a single rDNA unit, the incomplete assembly of subtelomeric regions following sequencing of the gen...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dia N,Lavie L,Faye N,Méténier G,Yeramian E,Duroure C,Toguebaye BS,Frutos R,Niang MN,Vivarès CP,Ben Mamoun C,Cornillot E

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While changes in chromosome number that result in aneuploidy are associated with phenotypic consequences such as Down syndrome and cancer, the molecular causes of specific phenotypes and genome-wide expression changes that occur in aneuploids are still being elucidated. RESULTS:We employed a segmental aneup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Makarevitch I,Phillips RL,Springer NM

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sweet sorghum is an annual C4 crop considered to be one of the most promising bio-energy crops due to its high sugar content in stem, yet it is poorly understood how this plant increases its sugar content in response to salt stress. In response to high NaCl, many of its major processes, such as photosynthesi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sui N,Yang Z,Liu M,Wang B

更新日期：2015-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana are characterized by a high level of phenotypic variation that can be used to investigate the extent and mode of selection on the primary metabolic traits. A collection of 54 A. thaliana natural accession-derived lines were subjected to deep genotyping through Singl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Childs LH,Witucka-Wall H,Günther T,Sulpice R,Korff MV,Stitt M,Walther D,Schmid KJ,Altmann T

更新日期：2010-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The colonial cyanobacterium Microcystis proliferates in a wide range of freshwater ecosystems and is exposed to changing environmental factors during its life cycle. Microcystis blooms are often toxic, potentially fatal to animals and humans, and may cause environmental problems. There has been little invest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Frangeul L,Quillardet P,Castets AM,Humbert JF,Matthijs HC,Cortez D,Tolonen A,Zhang CC,Gribaldo S,Kehr JC,Zilliges Y,Ziemert N,Becker S,Talla E,Latifi A,Billault A,Lepelletier A,Dittmann E,Bouchier C,de Marsac NT

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the study of gene regulation via the action of specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has experienced a boom in recent years, the analysis of genome-wide interaction networks among miRNAs and respective targeted mRNAs has lagged behind. MicroRNAs simultaneously target many transcripts and fine-tune the express...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nunez YO,Truitt JM,Gorini G,Ponomareva ON,Blednov YA,Harris RA,Mayfield RD

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quercetin is a polyphenol of great interest given its antioxidant activity and involvement in the immune response. Although quercetin has been well studied at the molecular level as a gene regulator and an activator of specific cellular pathways, not much attention has been given to its mechanism of action a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Atrahimovich D,Samson AO,Barsheshet Y,Vaya J,Khatib S,Reuveni E

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance is one of our most serious health threats. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), effecter molecules of innate immune system, can defend host organisms against microbes and most have shown a lowered likelihood for bacteria to form resistance compared to many conventional drugs. Thus, AMPs ar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fu H,Cao Z,Li M,Wang S

更新日期：2020-08-28 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:The recent advance of high-throughput sequencing makes it feasible to study entire transcriptomes through the application of de novo sequence assembly algorithms. While a popular strategy is to first construct an intermediate de Bruijn graph structure to represent the transcriptome, an additional step is nee...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sze SH,Tarone AM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Precise identification of three-dimensional genome organization, especially enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs), is important to deciphering gene regulation, cell differentiation and disease mechanisms. Currently, it is a challenging task to distinguish true interactions from other nearby non-interacting o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zeng W,Wu M,Jiang R

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transition from exponential to stationary phase in Streptomyces coelicolor is accompanied by a major metabolic switch and results in a strong activation of secondary metabolism. Here we have explored the underlying reorganization of the metabolome by combining computational predictions based on constrain...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Alam MT,Merlo ME,STREAM Consortium.,Hodgson DA,Wellington EM,Takano E,Breitling R

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gymnosporangium spp. are fungal plant pathogens causing rust disease and most of them are known to infect two different host plants (heteroecious) with four spore stages (demicyclic). In the present study, we sequenced the transcriptome of G. japonicum teliospores on its host plant Juniperus chinensis and we...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tao SQ,Cao B,Morin E,Liang YM,Duplessis S

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and destruction of synovial joints. RA affects up to 1 % of the population worldwide. Currently, there are no drugs that can cure RA or achieve sustained remission. The unknown cause of the disease represents a significan...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu R,Wang Q

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restriction-modification (R-M) systems protect bacteria and archaea from attacks by bacteriophages and archaeal viruses. An R-M system specifically recognizes short sites in foreign DNA and cleaves it, while such sites in the host DNA are protected by methylation. Prokaryotic viruses have developed a number ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rusinov IS,Ershova AS,Karyagina AS,Spirin SA,Alexeevski AV

更新日期：2018-12-07 00:00:00