Phylogenetic patterns of gene rearrangements in four mitochondrial genomes from the green algal family Hydrodictyaceae (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae).

abstract：BACKGROUND:In contrast to unidirectional promoters wherein antisense transcription results in short transcripts which are rapidly degraded, bidirectional promoters produce mature transcripts in both sense and antisense orientation. To understand the molecular mechanism of how productive bidirectional transcription is r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jangid RK,Kelkar A,Muley VY,Galande S

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha tubulin is a fundamental component of the cytoskeleton which is responsible for cell shape and is involved in cell division, ciliary and flagellar motility and intracellular transport. Alpha tubulin gene expression varies according to the morphological changes suffered by Leishmania in its life cycle. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ramírez CA,Requena JM,Puerta CJ

更新日期：2013-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:microRNA (miRNA) expression plays an influential role in cancer classification and malignancy, and miRNAs are feasible as alternative diagnostic markers for pancreatic cancer, a highly aggressive neoplasm with silent early symptoms, high metastatic potential, and resistance to conventional therapies. METHOD...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kwon MS,Kim Y,Lee S,Namkung J,Yun T,Yi SG,Han S,Kang M,Kim SW,Jang JY,Park T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animals are thought to achieve lignocellulose digestion via symbiotic associations with gut microbes; this view leads to significant focus on bacteria and fungi for lignocellulolytic systems. The presence of biomass conversion systems hardwired into animal genomes has not yet been unequivocally demonstrated....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chang WH,Lai AG

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Transcription Factor (TF) p63 is a master regulator of epidermal development and differentiation as evident from the remarkable skin phenotype of p63 mouse knockouts. Furthermore, ectopic expression of p63 alone is sufficient to convert simple epithelium into stratified epithelial tissues in vivo and p63...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sethi I,Sinha S,Buck MJ

更新日期：2014-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycobacterium abscessus complex, the third most frequent mycobacterial complex responsible for community- and health care-associated infections in developed countries, comprises of M. abscessus subsp. abscessus and M. abscessus subsp. bolletii reviously referred as Mycobacterium bolletii and Mycobacterium ma...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sassi M,Drancourt M

更新日期：2014-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression technologies have the ability to generate vast amounts of data, yet there often resides only limited resources for subsequent validation studies. This necessitates the ability to perform sorting and prioritization of the output data. Previously described methodologies have used functional pat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schlicht M,Matysiak B,Brodzeller T,Wen X,Liu H,Zhou G,Dhir R,Hessner MJ,Tonellato P,Suckow M,Pollard M,Datta MW

更新日期：2004-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The circadian rhythms regulate physiological functions and metabolism. Circadian Time (CT) is a unit to quantify the rhythm of endogenous circadian clock, independent of light influence. To understand the gene expression changes throughout CT, C57BL/6 J mice were maintained under constant darkness (DD) for 6...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Zhang S,Zhang W,Chen S,Rabearivony A,Shi Y,Liu J,Corton CJ,Liu C

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although profiling of RNA in single cells has broadened our understanding of development, cancer biology and mechanisms of disease dissemination, it requires the development of reliable and flexible methods. Here we demonstrate that the EpiStem RNA-Amp™ methodology reproducibly generates microgram amounts of...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rothwell DG,Li Y,Ayub M,Tate C,Newton G,Hey Y,Carter L,Faulkner S,Moro M,Pepper S,Miller C,Blackhall F,Bertolini G,Roz L,Dive C,Brady G

更新日期：2014-12-17 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:The increased multi-omics information on carefully phenotyped patients in studies of complex diseases requires novel methods for data integration. Unlike continuous intensity measurements from most omics data sets, phenome data contain clinical variables that are binary, ordinal and categorical. RESULTS:In ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim S,Herazo-Maya JD,Kang DD,Juan-Guardela BM,Tedrow J,Martinez FJ,Sciurba FC,Tseng GC,Kaminski N

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soybean seed weight is not only a yield component, but also a critical trait for various soybean food products such as sprouts, edamame, soy nuts, natto and miso. Linkage analysis and genome-wide association study (GWAS) are two complementary and powerful tools to connect phenotypic differences to the underl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yan L,Hofmann N,Li S,Ferreira ME,Song B,Jiang G,Ren S,Quigley C,Fickus E,Cregan P,Song Q

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As an important nosocomial pathogen, Enterococcus faecium has received increasing attention in recent years. However, a large number of studies have focused on the hospital-associated isolates and ignored isolates originated from the natural environments. RESULTS:In this study, comparative genomic analysis ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhong Z,Kwok LY,Hou Q,Sun Y,Li W,Zhang H,Sun Z

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marine diatoms constitute a major component of eukaryotic phytoplankton and stand at the crossroads of several evolutionary lineages. These microalgae possess peculiar genomic features and novel combinations of genes acquired from bacterial, animal and plant ancestors. Furthermore, they display both DNA meth...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rogato A,Richard H,Sarazin A,Voss B,Cheminant Navarro S,Champeimont R,Navarro L,Carbone A,Hess WR,Falciatore A

更新日期：2014-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many microbial genomes, a strong preference for a small number of codons can be observed in genes whose products are needed by the cell in large quantities. This codon usage bias (CUB) improves translational accuracy and speed and is one of several factors optimizing cell growth. Whereas CUB and the overr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： von Mandach C,Merkl R

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common forms of cancer associated with the presence of precancerous oral leukoplakia. Given the poor prognosis associated with oral leukoplakia, and the difficulties in distinguishing it from cancer lesions, there is an urgent need to elucidate the molec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Z,Feng X,Liu X,Jiang L,Zeng X,Ji N,Li J,Li L,Chen Q

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homology-based comparisons of the genes involved in innate immunity across many insect taxa with fully sequenced genomes has revealed a striking pattern of gene gain and loss, particularly among genes that encode proteins involved in clearing pathogens (effectors). However, limited functional annotation in n...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sackton TB,Clark AG

更新日期：2009-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes, RNAs, and proteins play important roles during germline development. However, the functions of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) on germline development remain unclear in avian species. Recent high-throughput techniques have identified several classes of ncRNAs, including micro RNAs (miRNAs), small-interfering...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rengaraj D,Lee SI,Park TS,Lee HJ,Kim YM,Sohn YA,Jung M,Noh SJ,Jung H,Han JY

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complete or near-complete genomic sequence information is presently only available for a few plant species representing a large phylogenetic diversity among plants. In order to effectively transfer this information to species lacking sequence information, comparative genomic tools need to be developed. Molec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fredslund J,Madsen LH,Hougaard BK,Nielsen AM,Bertioli D,Sandal N,Stougaard J,Schauser L

更新日期：2006-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aluminium (Al) toxicity is the main factor limiting the crop production in acid soils and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the most Al-sensitive of the small-grained cereals. The major gene for Al tolerance in barley is HvAACT1 (HvMATE) on chromosome 4H which encodes a multidrug and toxic compound extru...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma Y,Li C,Ryan PR,Shabala S,You J,Liu J,Liu C,Zhou M

更新日期：2016-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pattern of point mutation is important for studying mutational mechanisms, genome evolution, and diseases. Previous studies of mutation direction were largely based on substitution data from a limited number of loci. To date, there is no genome-wide analysis of mutation direction or methylation-dependent...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang C,Zhao Z

更新日期：2006-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plastome of medicinal and endangered species in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Barleria prionitis was sequenced. The plastome was compared with that of seven Acanthoideae species in order to describe the plastome, spot the microsatellite, assess the dissimilarities within the sampled plastomes and to infer the...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Alzahrani DA,Yaradua SS,Albokhari EJ,Abba A

更新日期：2020-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput genotyping platforms play important roles in plant genomic studies. Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the world's important natural textile fiber and oil crop. Upland cotton accounts for more than 90% of the world's cotton production, however, modern upland cotton cultivars have narrow genetic diver...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cai C,Zhu G,Zhang T,Guo W

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A-to-I RNA-editing mediated by ADAR (adenosine deaminase acting on RNA) enzymes that converts adenosine to inosine in RNA sequence can generate mutations and alter gene regulation in metazoans. Previous studies have shown that A-to-I RNA-editing plays vital roles in mouse embryogenesis. However, the RNA-edit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Qiu S,Li W,Xiong H,Liu D,Bai Y,Wu K,Zhang X,Yang H,Ma K,Hou Y,Li B

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many computational methods are available for assembly and annotation of newly sequenced microbial genomes. However, when new genomes are reported in the literature, there is frequently very little critical analysis of choices made during the sequence assembly and gene annotation stages. These choices have a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Morrison SS,Pyzh R,Jeon MS,Amaro C,Roig FJ,Baker-Austin C,Oliver JD,Gibas CJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ciliate Paramecium bursaria harbors several hundred cells of the green-alga Chlorella sp. in their cytoplasm. Irrespective of the mutual relation between P. bursaria and the symbiotic algae, both cells retain the ability to grow without the partner. They can easily reestablish endosymbiosis when put in c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kodama Y,Suzuki H,Dohra H,Sugii M,Kitazume T,Yamaguchi K,Shigenobu S,Fujishima M

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TALLYHO/Jng (TH) mouse is a polygenic model for obesity and type 2 diabetes first described in the literature in 2001. The origin of the TH strain is an outbred colony of the Theiler Original strain and mice derived from this source were selectively bred for male hyperglycemia establishing an inbred stra...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Denvir J,Boskovic G,Fan J,Primerano DA,Parkman JK,Kim JH

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electron microscopy analyses of replicating chloroplast molecules earlier predicted bidirectional Cairns replication as the prevalent mechanism, perhaps followed by rounds of a rolling circle mechanism. This standard model is being challenged by the recent proposition of homologous recombination-mediated rep...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Krishnan NM,Rao BJ

更新日期：2009-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic populations provide the basis for a wide range of genetic and genomic studies and have been widely used in genetic mapping, gene discovery and genomics-assisted breeding. Chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) are the most powerful tools for the detection and precise mapping of quantitative tr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu J,Zhao Q,Du P,Xu C,Wang B,Feng Q,Liu Q,Tang S,Gu M,Han B,Liang G

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme HR6B is required for spermatogenesis in mouse. Loss of HR6B results in aberrant histone modification patterns on the trancriptionally silenced X and Y chromosomes (XY body) and on centromeric chromatin in meiotic prophase. We studied the relationship between these chromatin m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mulugeta Achame E,Wassenaar E,Hoogerbrugge JW,Sleddens-Linkels E,Ooms M,Sun ZW,van IJcken WF,Grootegoed JA,Baarends WM

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00