Whole genome comparative analysis of transposable elements provides new insight into mechanisms of their inactivation in fungal genomes.

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:The completion of the Plasmodium falciparum genome represents a milestone in malaria research. The genome sequence allows for the development of genome-wide approaches such as microarray and proteomics that will greatly facilitate our understanding of the parasite biology and accelerate new drug and vaccine ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lu F,Jiang H,Ding J,Mu J,Valenzuela JG,Ribeiro JM,Su XZ

更新日期：2007-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deciphering taxonomical structures based on high dimensional sequencing data is still challenging in metagenomics study. Moreover, the common workflow processed in this field fails to identify microbial communities and their effect on a specific disease status. Even the relationships and interactions between...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yan J,Chuai G,Qi T,Shao F,Zhou C,Zhu C,Yang J,Yu Y,Shi C,Kang N,He Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Butterflies and moths are emerging as model organisms in genetics and evolutionary studies. The family Hesperiidae (skippers) was traditionally viewed as a sister to other butterflies based on its moth-like morphology and darting flight habits with fast wing beats. However, DNA studies suggest that the famil...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cong Q,Borek D,Otwinowski Z,Grishin NV

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circular chromosome conformation capture (4C) has provided important insights into three dimensional (3D) genome organization and its critical impact on the regulation of gene expression. We developed a new quantitative framework based on polymer physics for the analysis of paired-end sequencing 4C (PE-4Cseq...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zepeda-Mendoza CJ,Mukhopadhyay S,Wong ES,Harder N,Splinter E,de Wit E,Eckersley-Maslin MA,Ried T,Eils R,Rohr K,Mills A,de Laat W,Flicek P,Sengupta AM,Spector DL

更新日期：2015-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-component systems (TCSs) are modular and diverse signalling pathways, involving a stimulus-responsive transfer of phosphoryl groups from transmitter to partner receiver domains. TCS gene and domain organisation are both potentially informative regarding biological function, interaction partnerships and m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Williams RH,Whitworth DE

更新日期：2010-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The orange pigmentation of the agar cultures of many Fusarium species is due to the production of carotenoids, terpenoid pigments whose synthesis is stimulated by light. The genes of the carotenoid pathway and their regulation have been investigated in detail in Fusarium fujikuroi. In this and other Fusarium...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ruger-Herreros M,Parra-Rivero O,Pardo-Medina J,Romero-Campero FJ,Limón MC,Avalos J

更新日期：2019-01-21 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:Sugarcane (Saccharum L. plant) is an important crop for sugar and bio-energy production around the world. Among sugarcane diseases, smut caused by Sporisorium scitamineum is one of the major fungal diseases causing severe losses to the sugarcane industry. The use of PCR reference genes is essential to the no...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang N,Ling H,Liu F,Su Y,Su W,Mao H,Zhang X,Wang L,Chen R,Que Y

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though genomic-level data are becoming widely available, many of the metazoan species sequenced are laboratory systems whose natural history is not well documented. In contrast, the wide array of species with very well-characterized natural history have, until recently, lacked genomics tools. It is now possi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Peterson MP,Whittaker DJ,Ambreth S,Sureshchandra S,Buechlein A,Podicheti R,Choi JH,Lai Z,Mockatis K,Colbourne J,Tang H,Ketterson ED

更新日期：2012-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contribution of a gene to the fitness of a bacterium can be assayed by whether and to what degree the bacterium tolerates transposon insertions in that gene. We use this fact to compare the fitness of syntenic homologous genes among related Salmonella strains and thereby reveal differences not apparent a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Canals R,Xia XQ,Fronick C,Clifton SW,Ahmer BM,Andrews-Polymenis HL,Porwollik S,McClelland M

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax is an experimentally neglected severe disease with a substantial burden on human health. Because of technical limitations, little is known about the biology of this important human pathogen. Whole genome analysis methods on patient-derived material are thus likely to have a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bright AT,Tewhey R,Abeles S,Chuquiyauri R,Llanos-Cuentas A,Ferreira MU,Schork NJ,Vinetz JM,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2012-06-21 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:Brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens Stål, is one of the most destructive insect pests of rice. The molecular responses of plants to sucking insects resemble responses to pathogen infection. However, the molecular mechanism of BPH-resistance in rice remains unclear. Transcription factors (TF) are up-s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Y,Guo H,Li H,Zhang H,Miao X

更新日期：2012-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMM) integrating transcriptomics have been widely used to study cancer metabolism. This integration is achieved through logical rules that describe the association between genes, proteins, and reactions (GPRs). However, current gene-to-reaction formulation lacks the stoichiome...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Marín de Mas I,Torrents L,Bedia C,Nielsen LK,Cascante M,Tauler R

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of second generation sequencing methods has enabled large scale DNA variation studies at moderate cost. For the high throughput discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in species lacking a sequenced reference genome, we set-up an analysis pipeline based on a short read de novo seq...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kerstens HH,Crooijmans RP,Veenendaal A,Dibbits BW,Chin-A-Woeng TF,den Dunnen JT,Groenen MA

更新日期：2009-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Castor oil is the only commercial source of hydroxy fatty acid that has industrial value. The production of castor oil is hampered by the presence of the toxin ricin in its seed. Lesquerella seed also accumulates hydroxy fatty acid and is free of ricin, and thus it is being developed as a new crop for hydrox...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim HU,Chen GQ

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sRNAs of bacterial pathogens are known to be involved in various cellular roles including environmental adaptation as well as regulation of virulence and pathogenicity. It is expected that sRNAs may also have similar functions for Burkholderia pseudomallei, a soil bacterium that can adapt to diverse envi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Khoo JS,Chai SF,Mohamed R,Nathan S,Firdaus-Raih M

更新日期：2012-01-01 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:Streptococcus uberis, a Gram positive bacterial pathogen responsible for a significant proportion of bovine mastitis in commercial dairy herds, colonises multiple body sites of the cow including the gut, genital tract and mammary gland. Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequence of S. uberis strain...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ward PN,Holden MT,Leigh JA,Lennard N,Bignell A,Barron A,Clark L,Quail MA,Woodward J,Barrell BG,Egan SA,Field TR,Maskell D,Kehoe M,Dowson CG,Chanter N,Whatmore AM,Bentley SD,Parkhill J

更新日期：2009-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence suggests that overlapping genes are much more common in eukaryotic genomes than previously thought. In this study we identified and characterized the overlapping genes in a set of 13,484 pairs of human-mouse orthologous genes. RESULTS:About 10% of the genes under study are overlapping ge...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sanna CR,Li WH,Zhang L

更新日期：2008-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ralstonia solanacearum is an important plant pathogen. The genome of R. solananearum GMI1000 is organised into two replicons (a 3.7-Mb chromosome and a 2.1-Mb megaplasmid) and this bipartite genome structure is characteristic for most R. solanacearum strains. To determine whether the megaplasmid was acquired...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Coenye T,Vandamme P

更新日期：2003-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number variation is an important component of genetic variation in higher eukaryotes. The extent of natural copy number variation in C. elegans is unknown outside of 2 highly divergent wild isolates and the canonical N2 Bristol strain. RESULTS:We have used array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH)...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Maydan JS,Lorch A,Edgley ML,Flibotte S,Moerman DG

更新日期：2010-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A whole-genome genotyping array has previously been developed for Malus using SNP data from 28 Malus genotypes. This array offers the prospect of high throughput genotyping and linkage map development for any given Malus progeny. To test the applicability of the array for mapping in diverse Malus genotypes, ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Antanaviciute L,Fernández-Fernández F,Jansen J,Banchi E,Evans KM,Viola R,Velasco R,Dunwell JM,Troggio M,Sargent DJ

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that the main factors of low prenatal growth in mammals are genetic and environmental. We used isogenic mice maintained in standard conditions to analyze how natural non-genetic microsomia (low birth weight) is produced in inbred mice and its long term effect on health. To better understand th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miranda A,López-Cardona AP,Laguna-Barraza R,Calle A,López-Vidriero I,Pintado B,Gutiérrez-Adán A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Segmental duplications (SDs) are not evenly distributed along chromosomes. The reasons for this biased susceptibility to SD insertion are poorly understood. Accumulation of SDs is associated with increased genomic instability, which can lead to structural variants and genomic disorders such as the Williams-B...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ebert G,Steininger A,Weißmann R,Boldt V,Lind-Thomsen A,Grune J,Badelt S,Heßler M,Peiser M,Hitzler M,Jensen LR,Müller I,Hu H,Arndt PF,Kuss AW,Tebel K,Ullmann R

更新日期：2014-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linkage disequilibrium (LD) plays a fundamental role in population genetics and in the current surge of studies to screen for subtle genetic variants affecting complex traits. Methods widely implemented in LD analyses require samples to be randomly collected, which, however, are usually ignored and thus rais...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang M,Jia T,Jiang N,Wang L,Hu X,Luo Z

更新日期：2010-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thousands of intragenic long interspersed element 1 sequences (LINE-1 elements or L1s) reside within genes. These intragenic L1 sequences are conserved and regulate the expression of their host genes. When L1 methylation is decreased, either through chemical induction or in cancer, the intragenic L1 transcri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wanichnopparat W,Suwanwongse K,Pin-On P,Aporntewan C,Mutirangura A

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

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:The tuberous root of sweet potato is an important agricultural and biological organ. There are not sufficient transcriptomic and genomic data in public databases for understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying the tuberous root formation and development. Thus, high throughput transcriptome sequencing...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Z,Fang B,Chen J,Zhang X,Luo Z,Huang L,Chen X,Li Y

更新日期：2010-12-24 00:00:00