Comparative transcriptomics uncovers alternative splicing changes and signatures of selection from maize improvement.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ammonia is one of the most common toxicological environment factors affecting shrimp health. Although ammonia tolerance in shrimp is closely related to successful industrial production, few genetic studies of this trait are available. RESULTS:In this study, we constructed a high-density genetic map of the P...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zeng D,Yang C,Li Q,Zhu W,Chen X,Peng M,Chen X,Lin Y,Wang H,Liu H,Liang J,Liu Q,Zhao Y

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown previously that aminocoumarin antibiotics such as novobiocin lead to immediate downregulation of recA expression and thereby inhibit the SOS response, mutation frequency and recombination capacity in Staphylococcus aureus. Aminocoumarins function by inhibiting the ATPase activity of DNA gyr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schröder W,Bernhardt J,Marincola G,Klein-Hitpass L,Herbig A,Krupp G,Nieselt K,Wolz C

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genome of pathogenic Leptospira interrogans contains two chromosomes. Plasmids and prophages are known to play specific roles in gene transfer in bacteria and can potentially serve as efficient genetic tools in these organisms. Although plasmids and prophage remnants have recently been reported in Leptos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu W,Wang J,Zhu Y,Tang B,Zhang Y,He P,Zhang Y,Liu B,Guo X,Zhao G,Qin J

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology is limited to monitoring the expression of previously annotated genes that have corresponding probes on the array. Computationally annotated genes have not fully been validated, because ESTs and full-length cDNAs cannot cover entire transcribed regions. Here, mRNA-Seq (an Illumina cDNA ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mizuno H,Kawahara Y,Sakai H,Kanamori H,Wakimoto H,Yamagata H,Oono Y,Wu J,Ikawa H,Itoh T,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2010-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing resistance of Plasmodium, the malaria parasites, to multiple commonly used drugs has underscored the urgent need to develop effective antimalarial drugs and vaccines. The new direction of genomics-driven target discovery has become possible with the completion of parasite genome sequencing, wh...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cai H,Gu J,Wang Y

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The substantially large bread wheat genome, organized into highly similar three sub-genomes, renders genomic research challenging. The construction of BAC-based physical maps of individual chromosomes reduces the complexity of this allohexaploid genome, enables elucidation of gene space and evolutionary rela...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Akpinar BA,Magni F,Yuce M,Lucas SJ,Šimková H,Šafář J,Vautrin S,Bergès H,Cattonaro F,Doležel J,Budak H

更新日期：2015-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant nucleotide-binding site (NBS)-leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins encoded by resistance genes play an important role in the responses of plants to various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and nematodes. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of NBS-encoding genes within the whole cucumber...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wan H,Yuan W,Bo K,Shen J,Pang X,Chen J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a major signaling molecule that the brain uses to control a vast network of intracellular cascades fundamental to properties of learning and memory, and cognition. While much is known about BDNF signaling in the healthy nervous system where it controls the mitogen ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hixson KM,Cogswell M,Brooks-Kayal AR,Russek SJ

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and in tRNAs in the form of selenouridine (SeU). Selenophosphate synthetase (SelD) is required for both utilization traits. However, previous research also revealed SelDs in two organisms lacking Sec and SeU, suggest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Y,Turanov AA,Hatfield DL,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2008-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pituitary is a critical neuroendocrine gland that is comprised of five hormone-secreting cell types, which develops in tandem during the embryonic stage. Some essential genes have been identified in the early stage of adenohypophysial development, such as PITX1, FGF8, BMP4 and SF-1. However, it is likely...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma Y,Qi X,Du J,Song S,Feng D,Qi J,Zhu Z,Zhang X,Xiao H,Han Z,Hao X

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of endogenous, non-coding RNAs, about 22 nucleotides long, which regulate gene expression through sequence-specific base pairing with target mRNAs. Extensive studies have shown that miRNA expression in the skin changes remarkably during distinct stages of the hair cycle ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yuan C,Wang X,Geng R,He X,Qu L,Chen Y

更新日期：2013-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene ontology analysis using the microarray database generated in a previous study by this laboratory was used to further evaluate how maternal dietary supplementation with pyridoxine combined with different sources of selenium (Se) affected global gene expression of expanded porcine blastocysts. Data were g...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dalto DB,Tsoi S,Dyck MK,Matte JJ

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small RNAs (sRNAs) have emerged as important regulatory molecules and have been studied in several bacteria. However, to date, there have been no whole-transcriptome studies on sRNAs in any of the Soft Rot Enterobacteriaceae (SRE) group of pathogens. Although the main ecological niches for these pathogens ar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kwenda S,Gorshkov V,Ramesh AM,Naidoo S,Rubagotti E,Birch PR,Moleleki LN

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variation in environment, management practices, nutrition or selection objectives has led to a variety of different choices being made in the use of genetic material between countries. Differences in genome-level homozygosity between countries may give rise to regions that result in inbreeding depression to ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Howard JT,Haile-Mariam M,Pryce JE,Maltecca C

更新日期：2015-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria belonging to the Rhodococcus genus play an important role in the degradation of many contaminants, including methylbenzenes. These bacteria, widely distributed in the environment, are known to be a powerhouse of numerous degradation functions, due to their ability to metabolize a wide range of organ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Di Canito A,Zampolli J,Orro A,D'Ursi P,Milanesi L,Sello G,Steinbüchel A,Di Gennaro P

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetic clocks have been recognized for their precise prediction of chronological age, age-related diseases, and all-cause mortality. Existing epigenetic clocks are based on CpGs from the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (450 K) which has now been replaced by the latest platform, Illumina Methylation...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lee Y,Haftorn KL,Denault WRP,Nustad HE,Page CM,Lyle R,Lee-Ødegård S,Moen GH,Prasad RB,Groop LC,Sletner L,Sommer C,Magnus MC,Gjessing HK,Harris JR,Magnus P,Håberg SE,Jugessur A,Bohlin J

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-seq has shown huge potential for phylogenomic inferences in non-model organisms. However, error, incompleteness, and redundant assembled transcripts for each gene in de novo assembly of short reads cause noise in analyses and a large amount of missing data in the aligned matrix. To address these problems...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang Y,Smith SA

更新日期：2013-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repetitive DNA is a major component of plant genomes and is thought to be a driver of evolutionary novelty. Describing variation in repeat content among individuals and between populations is key to elucidating the evolutionary significance of repetitive DNA. However, the cost of producing references genomes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Renny-Byfield S,Baumgarten A

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biocontrol of bacterial pathogens by bacteriophages (phages) represents a promising strategy. Vibrio alginolyticus, a gram-negative bacterium, is a notorious pathogen responsible for the loss of economically important farmed marine animals. To date, few V. alginolyticus phages have been successfully isolated...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo P,Yun L,Li Y,Tian Y,Liu Q,Huang W,Hu C

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite its primary economic importance, genomic information on olive tree is still lacking. 454 pyrosequencing was used to enrich the very few sequence data currently available for the Olea europaea species and to identify genes involved in expression of fruit quality traits. RESULTS:Fruits of Coratina, a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Alagna F,D'Agostino N,Torchia L,Servili M,Rao R,Pietrella M,Giuliano G,Chiusano ML,Baldoni L,Perrotta G

更新日期：2009-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor genomes are often highly heterogeneous, consisting of genomes from multiple subclonal types. Complete characterization of all subclonal types is a fundamental need in tumor genome analysis. With the advancement of next-generation sequencing, computational methods have recently been developed to infer t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li Y,Xie X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In biomedical research, gene expression profiling studies have been extensively conducted. The analysis of gene expression data has led to a deeper understanding of human genetics as well as practically useful models. Clustering analysis has been a critical component of gene expression data analysis and can ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Teran Hidalgo SJ,Wu M,Ma S

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies of gene regulation often utilize genome-wide predictions of transcription factor (TF) binding sites. Most existing prediction methods are based on sequence information alone, ignoring biological contexts such as developmental stages and tissue types. Experimental methods to study in vivo binding, inc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhong S,He X,Bar-Joseph Z

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Egyptian Rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), a common fruit bat species found throughout Africa and the Middle East, was recently identified as a natural reservoir host of Marburg virus. With Ebola virus, Marburg virus is a member of the family Filoviridae that causes severe hemorrhagic fever disease i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lee AK,Kulcsar KA,Elliott O,Khiabanian H,Nagle ER,Jones ME,Amman BR,Sanchez-Lockhart M,Towner JS,Palacios G,Rabadan R

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical bioavailability is an important dose metric in environmental risk assessment. Although many approaches have been used to evaluate bioavailability, not a single approach is free from limitations. Previously, we developed a new genomics-based approach that integrated microarray technology and regressi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gong P,Nan X,Barker ND,Boyd RE,Chen Y,Wilkins DE,Johnson DR,Suedel BC,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2016-03-08 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:A critical step in the RT-qPCR workflow for studying gene expression is data normalization, one of the strategies being the use of reference genes. This study aimed to identify and validate a selection of reference genes for relative quantification in Talaromyces versatilis, a relevant industrial filamentous...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Llanos A,François JM,Parrou JL

更新日期：2015-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tandem mass spectrometry allows biologists to identify and quantify protein samples in the form of digested peptide sequences. When performing peptide identification, spectral library search is more sensitive than traditional database search but is limited to peptides that have been previously identified. An...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lin YM,Chen CT,Chang JM

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori is presumed to be co-evolved with its human host and is a highly diverse gastric pathogen at genetic levels. Ancient origins of H. pylori in the New World are still debatable. It is not clear how different waves of human migrations in South America contributed to the evolution of strain d...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Devi SM,Ahmed I,Khan AA,Rahman SA,Alvi A,Sechi LA,Ahmed N

更新日期：2006-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones that are involved in many normal cellular processes and stress responses, and heat shock factors (Hsfs) are the transcriptional activators of Hsps. Hsfs and Hsps are widely coordinated in various biological processes. Although the roles of Hsfs and Hsps in ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang J,Liu B,Li J,Zhang L,Wang Y,Zheng H,Lu M,Chen J

更新日期：2015-03-14 00:00:00