Genome and Transcriptome sequence of Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) provides insights into drought tolerance and nutraceutical properties.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome rearrangement describes gross changes of chromosomal regions, plays an important role in evolutionary biology and has profound impacts on phenotype in organisms ranging from microbes to humans. With more and more complete genomes accomplished, lots of genomic comparisons have been conducted in order t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang D,Li S,Guo F,Ning K,Wang L

更新日期：2017-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive aspergillosis is started after germination of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia that are inhaled by susceptible individuals. Fungal hyphae can grow in the lung through the epithelial tissue and disseminate hematogenously to invade into other organs. Low fungaemia indicates that fungal elements do not re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Irmer H,Tarazona S,Sasse C,Olbermann P,Loeffler J,Krappmann S,Conesa A,Braus GH

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linguistic, cultural and genetic characteristics of the Malagasy suggest that both Africans and Island Southeast Asians were involved in the colonization of Madagascar. Populations from the Indonesian archipelago played an especially important role because linguistic evidence suggests that the Malagasy langu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kusuma P,Cox MP,Pierron D,Razafindrazaka H,Brucato N,Tonasso L,Suryadi HL,Letellier T,Sudoyo H,Ricaut FX

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While increasing data on bacterial evolution in controlled environments are available, our understanding of bacterial genome evolution in natural environments is limited. We thus performed full genome analyses on four Listeria monocytogenes, including human and food isolates from both a 1988 case of sporadic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Orsi RH,Borowsky ML,Lauer P,Young SK,Nusbaum C,Galagan JE,Birren BW,Ivy RA,Sun Q,Graves LM,Swaminathan B,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2008-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play important roles by regulating other genes. Rosa rugosa Thunb. is an important ornamental and edible plant, yet there are only a few studies on the miRNAs and their functions in R. rugosa. RESULTS:We sequenced 10 samll RNA profiles from the roots, petals...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo J,Wang Q,Liu L,Ren S,Li S,Liao P,Zhao Z,Lu C,Jiang B,Sunkar R,Zheng Y

更新日期：2019-04-18 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: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:Cattle and other ruminants have evolved the ability to derive most of their metabolic energy requirement from otherwise indigestible plant matter through a symbiotic relationship with plant fibre degrading microbes within a specialised fermentation chamber, the rumen. The genetic changes underlying the evolu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wheeler TT,Hood KA,Maqbool NJ,McEwan JC,Bingle CD,Zhao S

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The milk fat profile of the Danish Holstein (DH) and Danish Jersey (DJ) show clear differences. Identification of the genomic regions, genes and biological pathways underlying the milk fat biosynthesis will improve the understanding of the biology underlying bovine milk fat production and may provide new pos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Buitenhuis B,Janss LL,Poulsen NA,Larsen LB,Larsen MK,Sørensen P

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caixin and Zicaitai (Brassica rapa) belong to Southern and Central China respectively. Zicaitai contains high amount of anthocyanin in leaf and stalk resulting to the purple color. Stalk is the major edible part and stalk color is an economically important trait for the two vegetables. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li GH,Chen HC,Liu JL,Luo WL,Xie DS,Luo SB,Wu TQ,Akram W,Zhong YJ

更新日期：2019-05-07 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:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many common polymorphisms associated with complex traits. However, these associated common variants explain only a small fraction of the phenotypic variances, leaving a substantial portion of genetic heritability unexplained. As a result, searches for "m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen Q,Sun F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endogenous α-synuclein (α-Syn) is involved in many pathophysiological processes in the secondary injury stage after acute spinal cord injury (SCI), and the mechanism governing these functions has not been thoroughly elucidated to date. This research aims to characterize the effect of α-Syn knockdown on trans...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zeng H,Yu BF,Liu N,Yang YY,Xing HY,Liu XX,Zhou MW

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, diabetes has become one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels that are higher than optimal, even if below the diagnostic threshold of diabetes, can also lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Here we intend to study the magnitude of the genetic influence...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang W,Zhang C,Liu H,Xu C,Duan H,Tian X,Zhang D

更新日期：2020-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The eyes and skin are obvious retinoid target organs. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and retinoids are widely used to treat acne and psoriasis. However, more than 90% of total body retinol is stored in liver stellate cells. In addition, hepatocytes produce the largest amount of retinol binding p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： He Y,Gong L,Fang Y,Zhan Q,Liu HX,Lu Y,Guo GL,Lehman-McKeeman L,Fang J,Wan YJ

更新日期：2013-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HPA axis plays a major role in physiological homeostasis. It is also involved in stress and adaptive response to the environment. In farm animals in general and specifically in pigs, breeding strategies have highly favored production traits such as lean growth rate, feed efficiency and prolificacy at the cos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sautron V,Terenina E,Gress L,Lippi Y,Billon Y,Larzul C,Liaubet L,Villa-Vialaneix N,Mormède P

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:By assaying hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms, genome wide association studies (GWAS) allow for a powerful, unbiased review of the entire genome to localize common genetic variants that influence health and disease. Although it is widely recognized that some correction for multiple tes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Duggal P,Gillanders EM,Holmes TN,Bailey-Wilson JE

更新日期：2008-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that downregulate gene expression by base pairing to the 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs). Up to now, rare information for the miRNAs is available in decapod crustaceans. Our previous studies showed that many miRNA-binding sit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Song YN,Shi LL,Liu ZQ,Qiu GF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apple is an economically important fruit crop worldwide. Developing a genetic linkage map is a critical step towards mapping and cloning of genes responsible for important horticultural traits in apple. To facilitate linkage map construction, we surveyed and characterized the distribution and frequency of pe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Q,Ma B,Li H,Chang Y,Han Y,Li J,Wei G,Zhao S,Khan MA,Zhou Y,Gu C,Zhang X,Han Z,Korban SS,Li S,Han Y

更新日期：2012-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal cord injury leads to neurological dysfunctions affecting the motor, sensory as well as the autonomic systems. Increased excitability of motor neurons has been implicated in injury-induced spasticity, where the reappearance of self-sustained plateau potentials in the absence of modulatory inputs from t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ryge J,Winther O,Wienecke J,Sandelin A,Westerdahl AC,Hultborn H,Kiehn O

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The giant panda, one of the most primitive carnivores, is an endangered animal. Although it has been the subject of many interesting studies during recent years, little is known about its genome. In order to promote research on this genome, a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of the giant panda w...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu W,Zhao Y,Liu Z,Zhang Y,Lian Z,Li N

更新日期：2006-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The numerous classes of repeats often impede the assembly of genome sequences from the short reads provided by new sequencing technologies. We demonstrate a simple and rapid means to ascertain the repeat structure and total size of a bacterial or archaeal genome without the need for assembly by directly anal...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Williams D,Trimble WL,Shilts M,Meyer F,Ochman H

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) are genomic regions where identical haplotypes are inherited from each parent. Since their first detection due to technological advances in the late 1990s, ROHs have been shedding light on human population history and deciphering the genetic basis of monogenic and complex traits an...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ceballos FC,Hazelhurst S,Ramsay M

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GLV-1h68 is an attenuated recombinant vaccinia virus (VACV) that selectively colonizes established human xenografts inducing their complete regression. RESULTS:Here, we explored xenograft/VACV/host interactions in vivo adopting organism-specific expression arrays and tumor cell/VACV in vitro comparing VACV ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Worschech A,Chen N,Yu YA,Zhang Q,Pos Z,Weibel S,Raab V,Sabatino M,Monaco A,Liu H,Monsurró V,Buller RM,Stroncek DF,Wang E,Szalay AA,Marincola FM

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A systems toxicology investigation comparing and integrating transcriptomic and proteomic results was conducted to develop holistic effects characterizations for the wildlife bird model, Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) dosed with the explosives degradation product 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT)....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gust KA,Nanduri B,Rawat A,Wilbanks MS,Ang CY,Johnson DR,Pendarvis K,Chen X,Quinn MJ Jr,Johnson MS,Burgess SC,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Armigeres subalbatus is a natural vector of the filarial worm Brugia pahangi, but it rapidly and proficiently kills Brugia malayi microfilariae by melanotic encapsulation. Because B. malayi and B. pahangi are morphologically and biologically similar, the Armigeres-Brugia system serves as a valuable model for...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aliota MT,Fuchs JF,Mayhew GF,Chen CC,Christensen BM

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cotton is an important fiber crop but has serious heterosis effects, and cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is the major cause of heterosis in plants. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have investigated CMS Yamian A in cotton with the genetic background of Australian wild Gossypium bickii. Conj...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhao H,Wang J,Qu Y,Peng R,Magwanga RO,Liu F,Huang J

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isatis indigotica is a widely used herb for the clinical treatment of colds, fever, and influenza in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Various structural classes of compounds have been identified as effective ingredients. However, little is known at genetics level about these active metabolites. In the pre...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen J,Dong X,Li Q,Zhou X,Gao S,Chen R,Sun L,Zhang L,Chen W

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of genes with ascending or descending monotonic expression patterns over time or stages of stem cells is an important issue in time-series microarray data analysis. We propose a method named Monotonic Feature Selector (MFSelector) based on a concept of total discriminating error (DEtotal) to i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang HW,Sun HJ,Chang TY,Lo HH,Cheng WC,Tseng GC,Lin CT,Chang SJ,Pal N,Chung IF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing recognition that horizontal DNA transfer, a process known to be common in prokaryotes, is also a significant source of genomic variation in eukaryotes. Horizontal transfer of transposable elements (HTT) may be especially prevalent in eukaryotes given the inherent mobility, widespread occurre...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gilbert C,Waters P,Feschotte C,Schaack S

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00