ESAP plus: a web-based server for EST-SSR marker development.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leaf blight caused by Calonectria spp. is one of the most destructive diseases to affect Eucalyptus nurseries and plantations. These pathogens mainly attack Eucalyptus, a tree with a diversity of secondary metabolites employed as defense-related phytoalexins. To unravel the fungal adaptive mechanisms to vari...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ye X,Zhong Z,Liu H,Lin L,Guo M,Guo W,Wang Z,Zhang Q,Feng L,Lu G,Zhang F,Chen Q

更新日期：2018-05-10 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:Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L., Euphorbiaceae) is a potential oilseed crop because the seeds of this plant are rich in unsaturated fatty acids (FAs). In particular, the fatty acid composition of its seed oil differs markedly in containing large quantities of α-linolenic acid (18C:3, a kind of ω-3 FAs)....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang X,Xu R,Wang R,Liu A

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the predominant usage of short-read sequencing to date, most bacterial genome sequences reported in the last years remain at the draft level. This precludes certain types of analyses, such as the in-depth analysis of genome plasticity. RESULTS:Here we report the finalized genome sequence of the envir...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pfeiffer F,Zamora-Lagos MA,Blettinger M,Yeroslaviz A,Dahl A,Gruber S,Habermann BH

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequential nature of gel-based marker systems entails low throughput and high costs per assay. Commonly used marker systems such as SSR and SNP are also dependent on sequence information. These limitations result in high cost per data point and significantly limit the capacity of breeding programs to obt...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mace ES,Xia L,Jordan DR,Halloran K,Parh DK,Huttner E,Wenzl P,Kilian A

更新日期：2008-01-22 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:Filarial nematodes cause debilitating human diseases. While treatable, recent evidence suggests drug resistance is developing, necessitating the development of novel targets and new treatment options. Although transcriptomic and proteomic studies around the nematode life cycle have greatly enhanced our knowl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luck AN,Anderson KG,McClung CM,VerBerkmoes NC,Foster JM,Michalski ML,Slatko BE

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-scale functional genomic screens across large cell line panels provide a rich resource for discovering tumor vulnerabilities that can lead to the next generation of targeted therapies. Their data analysis typically has focused on identifying genes whose knockdown enhances response in various pre-defin...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu Z,Ihle NT,Rejto PA,Zarrinkar PP

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary theory indicates that the dynamics of aging in the soma and reproductive tissues may be distinct. This difference arises from the fact that only the germline lineage establishes future generations. In the soma, changes in the landscape of heterochromatin have been proposed to have an important r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Erwin AA,Blumenstiel JP

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In clinical and basic research custom panels for transcript profiling are gaining importance because only project specific informative genes are interrogated. This approach reduces costs and complexity of data analysis and allows multiplexing of samples. Polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) based TaqMan assays ha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang JD,Schindler T,Küng E,Ebeling M,Certa U

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT) encoded by a multigene family is a rate-limiting enzyme in the Kennedy pathway in higher plants. Cotton is the most important natural fiber crop and one of the most important oilseed crops. However, little is known on genes coding for LPAATs involved in oil biosy...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang N,Ma J,Pei W,Wu M,Li H,Li X,Yu S,Zhang J,Yu J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The P1B-ATPase subfamily is an important group involved in transporting heavy metals and has been extensively studied in model plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa. Emerging evidence indicates that one homolog in Glycine max is also involved in cadmium (Cd) stress, but the gene family has no...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fang X,Wang L,Deng X,Wang P,Ma Q,Nian H,Wang Y,Yang C

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteriophages are the most abundant and diverse entities in the biosphere, and this diversity is driven by constant predator-prey evolutionary dynamics and horizontal gene transfer. Phage genome sequences are under-sampled and therefore present an untapped and uncharacterized source of genetic diversity, ty...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Oliveira H,Sampaio M,Melo LDR,Dias O,Pope WH,Hatfull GF,Azeredo J

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interactions among transcription factors (TFs) and histone modifications (HMs) play an important role in the precise regulation of gene expression. The context specificity of those interactions and further its dynamics in normal and disease remains largely unknown. Recent development in genomics technology e...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang L,Xue G,Liu J,Li Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudogenes are ubiquitous genetic elements that derive from functional genes after mutational inactivation. Characterization of pseudogenes is important to understand genome dynamics and evolution, and its significance increases when several genomes of related organisms can be compared. Among yeasts, only t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lafontaine I,Dujon B

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The molecular mechanisms that determine the organism's response to a variety of doses and modalities of stress factors are not well understood. RESULTS:We studied effects of ionizing radiation (144, 360 and 864 Gy), entomopathogenic fungus (10 and 100 CFU), starvation (16 h), and cold shock (+4, 0 and -4°C)...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moskalev A,Zhikrivetskaya S,Krasnov G,Shaposhnikov M,Proshkina E,Borisoglebsky D,Danilov A,Peregudova D,Sharapova I,Dobrovolskaya E,Solovev I,Zemskaya N,Shilova L,Snezhkina A,Kudryavtseva A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is involved in several chronic inflammatory diseases including periodontitis, which causes loss of the gingival tissue and alveolar bone supporting the teeth. We have previously shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) induces PGE2 synthesis in gingival fibroblasts. In this s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Båge T,Lindberg J,Lundeberg J,Modéer T,Yucel-Lindberg T

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary structure in the target is a property not usually considered in software applications for design of optimal custom oligonucleotide probes. It is frequently assumed that eliminating self-complementarity, or screening for secondary structure in the probe, is sufficient to avoid interference with hybr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ratushna VG,Weller JW,Gibas CJ

更新日期：2005-03-08 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: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:Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture. Here, we explore the genome-wide basis of sex ratio variation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, perhaps the b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pannebakker BA,Cook N,van den Heuvel J,van de Zande L,Shuker DM

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway that catalyzes the deamination of phenylalanine to trans-cinnamic acid, a precursor for the lignin and flavonoid biosynthetic pathways. To date, PAL genes have been less extensively studied in gymnosperms than in angiosperms. Ou...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bagal UR,Leebens-Mack JH,Lorenz WW,Dean JF

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aquaporins are a large family of transmembrane channel proteins that are present throughout all domains of life and are implicated in human disorders. These channels, allow the passive but selective movement of water and other small neutral solutes across cell membranes. Aquaporins have been classified into ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Araya-Secchi R,Garate JA,Holmes DS,Perez-Acle T

更新日期：2011-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The question of whether synonymous codon choice is affected by cellular tRNA abundance has been positively answered in many organisms. In some recent works, concerning the human genome, this relation has been studied, but no conclusive answers have been found. In the human genome, the variation in base compo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kotlar D,Lavner Y

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L.), popularly known as "China grass", is one of the oldest crops in China and the second most important fiber crop in terms of area sown. Ramie fiber, extracted from the plant bast, is important in the textile industry. However, the molecular mechanism of ramie fiber development remai...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen J,Pei Z,Dai L,Wang B,Liu L,An X,Peng D

更新日期：2014-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two fifths of the world's population is at risk from dengue. The absence of effective drugs and vaccines leaves vector control as the primary intervention tool. Understanding dengue virus (DENV) host interactions is essential for the development of novel control strategies. The availability of genome sequenc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo X,Xu Y,Bian G,Pike AD,Xie Y,Xi Z

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major goal in the post-genomic era is to identify and characterise disease susceptibility genes and to apply this knowledge to disease prevention and treatment. Rodents and humans have remarkably similar genomes and share closely related biochemical, physiological and pathological pathways. In this work we...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Silva DG,Schönbach C,Brusic V,Socha LA,Nagashima T,Petrovsky N

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin producing beta cell and glucagon producing alpha cells are colocalized in pancreatic islets in an arrangement that facilitates the coordinated release of the two principal hormones that regulate glucose homeostasis and prevent both hypoglycemia and diabetes. However, this intricate organization has a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Benner C,van der Meulen T,Cacéres E,Tigyi K,Donaldson CJ,Huising MO

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transcriptome and its regulation bridge the genome and the phenome. Recent RNA-seq studies unveiled complex transcriptomes with previously unknown transcripts and functions. To investigate the characteristics of neural transcriptomes and possible functions of previously unknown transcripts, we analyzed a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sun Y,Wang Y,Hu Y,Chen G,Ma H

更新日期：2011-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The papaya Y chromosome has undergone a degenerative expansion from its ancestral autosome, as a consequence of recombination suppression in the sex determining region of the sex chromosomes. The non-recombining feature led to the accumulation of repetitive sequences in the male- or hermaphrodite-specific re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Na JK,Wang J,Ming R

更新日期：2014-05-04 00:00:00