Paralog analyses reveal gene duplication events and genes under positive selection in Ixodes scapularis and other ixodid ticks.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Theileria parva is an intracellular parasite that causes a lymphoproliferative disease in cattle. It does so by inducing cancer-like phenotypes in the host cells it infects, although the molecular and regulatory mechanisms involved remain poorly understood. RNAseq data, and the resulting updated genome annot...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tretina K,Pelle R,Silva JC

更新日期：2016-02-20 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:Root-knot nematodes are sedentary endoparasites that can infect more than 3000 plant species. Root-knot nematodes cause an estimated $100 billion annual loss worldwide. For successful establishment of the root-knot nematode in its host plant, it causes dramatic morphological and physiological changes in plan...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ibrahim HM,Hosseini P,Alkharouf NW,Hussein EH,Gamal El-Din Ael K,Aly MA,Matthews BF

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress caused by ground level ozone is a contributor to yield loss in a number of important crop plants. Soybean (Glycine max) is considered to be ozone sensitive, and current research into its response to oxidative stress is limited. To better understand the genetic response in soybean to oxidativ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Whaley A,Sheridan J,Safari S,Burton A,Burkey K,Schlueter J

更新日期：2015-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many biological systems respond to the presence or absence of gravity. Since experiments performed in space are expensive and can only be undertaken infrequently, Earth-based simulation techniques are used to investigate the biological response to weightlessness. A high gradient magnetic field can be used to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Herranz R,Larkin OJ,Dijkstra CE,Hill RJ,Anthony P,Davey MR,Eaves L,van Loon JJ,Medina FJ,Marco R

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is generally agreed that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is common in phagotrophic protists. However, the overall scale of HGT and the cumulative impact of acquired genes on the evolution of these organisms remain largely unknown. RESULTS:Choanoflagellates are phagotrophs and the closest living relatives ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yue J,Sun G,Hu X,Huang J

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the advancement in high throughput technology, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is routinely being incorporated along with phenotypic information into genetic evaluation. However, this approach often cannot achieve high accuracy for some complex traits. It is possible that SNP markers are not suff...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hay EHA,Utsunomiya YT,Xu L,Zhou Y,Neves HHR,Carvalheiro R,Bickhart DM,Ma L,Garcia JF,Liu GE

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene duplication is an important biological phenomenon associated with genomic redundancy, degeneration, specialization, innovation, and speciation. After duplication, both copies continue functioning when natural selection favors duplicated protein function or expression, or when mutations make them functio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chain FJ,Dushoff J,Evans BJ

更新日期：2011-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ammopiptanthus mongolicus (Maxim. ex Kom.) Cheng f., an evergreen broadleaf legume shrub, is distributed in Mid-Asia where the temperature can be as low as -30°C during the winter. Although A. mongolicus is an ideal model to study the plant response to cold stress, insufficient genomic resources for this spe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pang T,Ye CY,Xia X,Yin W

更新日期：2013-07-18 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:The understanding of the biological function, regulation, and cellular interactions of the yeast genome and proteome, along with the high conservation in gene function found between yeast genes and their human homologues, has allowed for Saccharomyces cerevisiae to be used as a model organism to deduce biolo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Arita A,Zhou X,Ellen TP,Liu X,Bai J,Rooney JP,Kurtz A,Klein CB,Dai W,Begley TJ,Costa M

更新日期：2009-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Closely related species of the carp family (Cyprinidae) have evolved distinctive abilities to survive under cold stress, but molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of cold resistance remain largely unknown. In this study, we compared transcriptomic profiles of two carp species to identify key factors...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ge G,Long Y,Shi L,Ren J,Yan J,Li C,Li Q,Cui Z

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Belonging to lineage I of Brassicaceae, Camelina sativa is formed by two hybridizations of three species (three sub-genomes). The three sub-genomes were diverged from a common ancestor, likely derived from lineage I (Ancestral Crucifer karyotype, ACK). The karyotype evolutionary trajectories of the C. sativa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Z,Meng F,Sun P,Yuan J,Gong K,Liu C,Wang W,Wang X

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence has shown that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are involved in neurodegenerative disorders, but their roles in neurological toxoplasmosis are yet to know. This study examined miRNA and circRNA expressions in mouse brain following oral infection with T. gondii Pru strain. RESULTS:Total RNA extra...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhou CX,Ai K,Huang CQ,Guo JJ,Cong H,He SY,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:With the rapid growth rate of newly sequenced genomes, species tree inference from multiple genes has become a basic bioinformatics task in comparative and evolutionary biology. However, accurate species tree estimation is difficult in the presence of gene tree discordance, which is often due to incomplete l...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bayzid MS,Hunt T,Warnow T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In understanding the evolutionary process of vertebrates, cyclostomes (hagfishes and lamprey) occupy crucial positions. Resolving molecular phylogenetic relationships of cyclostome genes with gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) genes is indispensable in deciphering both the species tree and gene trees. However,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Qiu H,Hildebrand F,Kuraku S,Meyer A

更新日期：2011-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pantoea ananatis is found in a wide range of natural environments, including water, soil, as part of the epi- and endophytic flora of various plant hosts, and in the insect gut. Some strains have proven effective as biological control agents and plant-growth promoters, while other strains have been implicate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Maayer P,Chan WY,Rubagotti E,Venter SN,Toth IK,Birch PR,Coutinho TA

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the processes that drive the evolution of snake venom is a topic of great research interest in molecular and evolutionary toxinology. Recent studies suggest that ontogenetic changes in venom composition are genetically controlled rather than environmentally induced. However, the molecular mecha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Durban J,Pérez A,Sanz L,Gómez A,Bonilla F,Rodríguez S,Chacón D,Sasa M,Angulo Y,Gutiérrez JM,Calvete JJ

更新日期：2013-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress responses provide valuable models for deciphering the transcriptional networks controlling the adaptation of the cell to its environment. We analyzed the transcriptome response of yeast to toxic concentrations of selenite. We used gene network mapping tools to identify functional pathways and transcri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salin H,Fardeau V,Piccini E,Lelandais G,Tanty V,Lemoine S,Jacq C,Devaux F

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During eukaryotic genome evolution, tandem gene duplication is the most frequent event giving rise to clustered gene families. However, how expression divergence between tandemly duplicated genes has emerged and maintained remain unclear. In particular, it is unknown if epigenetic regulators have been involv...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liao BY,Chang A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is the most economically devastating pathogen of soybean. Two resistance loci, Rhg1 and Rhg4 primarily contribute resistance to SCN race 3 in soybean. Peking and PI 88788 are the two major sources of SCN resistance with Peking requiring both Rhg1 and Rhg4 alleles and PI 88788 only...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shi Z,Liu S,Noe J,Arelli P,Meksem K,Li Z

更新日期：2015-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Duplication, followed by fixation or random loss of novel genes, contributes to genome evolution. Particular outcomes of duplication events are possibly associated with pathogenic life histories in fungi. To date, differential gene gain and loss have not been studied at genomic scales in fungal pathogens, de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Powell AJ,Conant GC,Brown DE,Carbone I,Dean RA

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cichlid fishes have evolved remarkably diverse reproductive, social, and feeding behaviors. Cell-to-cell signaling molecules, notably neuropeptides and peptide hormones, are known to regulate these behaviors across vertebrates. This class of signaling molecules derives from prohormone genes that have undergo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hu CK,Southey BR,Romanova EV,Maruska KP,Sweedler JV,Fernald RD

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sterol esterases and lipases are enzymes able to efficiently catalyze synthesis and hydrolysis reactions of both sterol esters and triglycerides and due to their versatility could be widely used in different industrial applications. Lipases with this ability have been reported in the yeast Candida rugosa tha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Barriuso J,Prieto A,Martínez MJ

更新日期：2013-10-18 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:Dinoflagellates are unicellular marine and freshwater eukaryotes. They possess large nuclear genomes (1.5-245 gigabases) and produce structurally unique and biologically active polyketide secondary metabolites. Although polyketide biosynthesis is well studied in terrestrial and freshwater organisms, only rec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Beedessee G,Hisata K,Roy MC,Satoh N,Shoguchi E

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Archived formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples are valuable clinical resources to examine clinically relevant morphology features and also to study genetic changes. However, DNA quality and quantity of FFPE samples are often sub-optimal, and resulting NGS-based genetics variant detections are prone...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bhagwate AV,Liu Y,Winham SJ,McDonough SJ,Stallings-Mann ML,Heinzen EP,Davila JI,Vierkant RA,Hoskin TL,Frost M,Carter JM,Radisky DC,Cunningham JM,Degnim AC,Wang C

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous investigations have compared gene expression microarray platforms, preprocessing methods and batch correction algorithms using constructed spike-in or dilution datasets, there remains a paucity of studies examining the properties of microarray data using diverse biological samples. Most mic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Richard AC,Lyons PA,Peters JE,Biasci D,Flint SM,Lee JC,McKinney EF,Siegel RM,Smith KG

更新日期：2014-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequencing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TGCA), the International Cancer Genome Consortium and other research institutes have revealed the presence of genetic alterations in several tumor types, including gastric cancer. These data have been combined into a catalog of significantly mutated genes for eac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hirotsu Y,Kojima Y,Okimoto K,Amemiya K,Mochizuki H,Omata M

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factor (TF) GAMYB, belonging to MYB family (named after the gene of the avian myeloblastosis virus) is a master gibberellin (GA)-induced regulatory protein that is crucial for development and germination of cereal grain and involved in anther formation. It activates many genes including high-mo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bienias A,Góralska M,Masojć P,Milczarski P,Myśków B

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00