Transcriptional effects of a positive feedback circuit in Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is an economically important evergreen fruit tree widely cultivated in subtropical areas. Low temperature is absolutely required for floral induction of litchi, but its molecular mechanism is not fully understood. Leaves of litchi played a key role during floral induction and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang H,Shen J,Wei Y,Chen H

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using the piggyBac-mediated GAL4/UAS transgenic system established in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, we have previously reported that overexpression of the Ras1(CA) oncogene specifically in the posterior silk gland (PSG) improved cell growth, fibroin synthesis, and thus silk yield. However, the detailed molecula...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma L,Ma Q,Li X,Cheng L,Li K,Li S

更新日期：2014-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein structure comparison and classification is an effective method for exploring protein structure-function relations. This problem is computationally challenging. Many different computational approaches for protein structure comparison apply the secondary structure elements (SSEs) representation of prot...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ashby C,Johnson D,Walker K,Kanj IA,Xia G,Huang X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the causal agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), which has severely impacted the swine industry worldwide. PCV2 triggers a weak and atypical innate immune response, but the key genes and mechanisms by which the virus interferes with host innate immuni...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Liu S,Wang Y,Deng F,Yan W,Yang K,Chen H,He Q,Charreyre C,Audoneet JC

更新日期：2013-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The formation of flowers is one of the main model systems to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that control developmental processes in plants. Although several studies have explored gene expression during flower development in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana on a genome-wide scale, a continuous series ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ryan PT,Ó'Maoiléidigh DS,Drost HG,Kwaśniewska K,Gabel A,Grosse I,Graciet E,Quint M,Wellmer F

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mice of the genus Apodemus are one the most common mammals in the Palaearctic region. Despite their broad range and long history of ecological observations, there are no whole-genome data available for Apodemus, hindering our ability to further exploit the genus in evolutionary and ecological genomics contex...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Martin Cerezo ML,Kucka M,Zub K,Chan YF,Bryk J

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate adipose tissue metabolism, however, their function on testosterone deficiency related obesity in humans is less understood. For this research, intact and castrated male pigs are the best model animal because of their similar proportional organ sizes, cardiovascular sys...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Hua L,Chen J,Zhang J,Bai X,Gao B,Li C,Shi Z,Sheng W,Gao Y,Xing B

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence of epithelia was the foundation of metazoan expansion. Epithelial tissues are a hallmark of metazoans deeply rooted in the evolution of their complex developmental morphogenesis processes. However, studies on the epithelial features of non-bilaterians are still sparse and it remains unclear whe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Belahbib H,Renard E,Santini S,Jourda C,Claverie JM,Borchiellini C,Le Bivic A

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr) is a necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes the major wheat disease, tan spot. We set out to provide essential genomics-based resources in order to better understand the pathogenicity mechanisms of this important pathogen. RESULTS:Here, we present eight new Ptr isolate g...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moolhuijzen P,See PT,Hane JK,Shi G,Liu Z,Oliver RP,Moffat CS

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several global transcriptomic and proteomic approaches have been applied in order to obtain new molecular insights on skeletal myogenesis, but none has generated any specific data on glycogenome expression, and thus on the role of glycan structures in this process, despite the involvement of glycoconjugates ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Janot M,Audfray A,Loriol C,Germot A,Maftah A,Dupuy F

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While DNA and RNA methods are routine to disrupt the expression of specific genes, complete understanding of developmental processes requires also protein methods, because: oocytes and early embryos accumulate proteins and these are not directly affected by DNA and RNA methods. When proteins in the oocyte en...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Israel S,Casser E,Drexler HCA,Fuellen G,Boiani M

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mammalian genomes contain a large number (approximately 1000) of olfactory receptor (OR) genes, many of which (20 to 50%) are pseudogenes. OR gene transcription is not restricted to the olfactory epithelium, but is found in numerous tissues. Using microarray hybridization and RTqPCR, we analyzed the mRNA pro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rimbault M,Robin S,Vaysse A,Galibert F

更新日期：2009-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ser/Thr/Tyr kinases (STYKs) commonly found in eukaryotes have been recently reported in many bacterial species. Recent studies elucidating their cellular functions have established their roles in bacterial growth and development. However functions of a large number of bacterial STYKs still remain elusive. Th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Krupa A,Srinivasan N

更新日期：2005-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarrays have revolutionized breast cancer (BC) research by enabling studies of gene expression on a transcriptome-wide scale. Recently, RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) has emerged as an alternative for precise readouts of the transcriptome. To date, no study has compared the ability of the two technologies to q...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fumagalli D,Blanchet-Cohen A,Brown D,Desmedt C,Gacquer D,Michiels S,Rothé F,Majjaj S,Salgado R,Larsimont D,Ignatiadis M,Maetens M,Piccart M,Detours V,Sotiriou C,Haibe-Kains B

更新日期：2014-11-21 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:Tandemly arranged nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA), encoding 18S, 5.8S and 26S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), exhibit concerted evolution, a pattern thought to result from the homogenisation of rDNA arrays. However rDNA homogeneity at the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) level has not been detailed in organisms with ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Matyášek R,Renny-Byfield S,Fulneček J,Macas J,Grandbastien MA,Nichols R,Leitch A,Kovařík A

更新日期：2012-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small untranslated RNAs (sRNAs) seem to be far more abundant than previously believed. The number of sRNAs confirmed in E. coli through various approaches is above 70, with several hundred more sRNA candidate genes under biological validation. Although the total number of sRNAs in any one species is still un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ulvé VM,Sevin EW,Chéron A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2007-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Ion Torrent PGM is a popular benchtop sequencer that shows promise in replacing conventional Sanger sequencing as the gold standard for mutation detection. Despite the PGM's reported high accuracy in calling single nucleotide variations, it tends to generate many false positive calls in detecting inserti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yeo ZX,Wong JC,Rozen SG,Lee AS

更新日期：2014-06-24 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:Cyanobacteria are major primary producers in extreme cold ecosystems. Many lineages of cyanobacteria thrive in these harsh environments, but it is not fully understood how they survive in these conditions and whether they have evolved specific mechanisms of cold adaptation. Phormidesmis priestleyi is a cyano...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chrismas NA,Barker G,Anesio AM,Sánchez-Baracaldo P

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meloidogyne chitwoodi commonly known as Columbia root-knot nematode or CRKN is one of the most devastating pests of potato in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. In addition to the roots, it infects potato tubers causing internal as well as external defects, thereby reducing the market val...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bali S,Vining K,Gleason C,Majtahedi H,Brown CR,Sathuvalli V

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The MHC and KIR loci are clinically relevant regions of the genome. Typing the sequence of these loci has a wide range of applications including organ transplantation, drug discovery, pharmacogenomics and furthering fundamental research in immune genetics. Rapid advances in biochemical and next-generation se...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Selvaraj S,Schmitt AD,Dixon JR,Ren B

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in gene regulation are thought to be crucial for the adaptation of organisms to their environment. Transcriptome analyses can be used to identify candidate genes for ecological adaptation, but can be complicated by variation in gene expression between tissues, sexes, or individuals. Here we use high-...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Catalán A,Hutter S,Parsch J

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Association mapping approaches are dependent upon discovery and validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To further association studies in Anopheles gambiae we conducted a major resequencing programme, primarily targeting regions within or close to candidate genes for insecticide resistance. RE...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wilding CS,Weetman D,Steen K,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2009-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:S. erythraea is a Gram-positive filamentous bacterium used for the industrial-scale production of erythromycin A which is of high clinical importance. In this work, we sequenced the whole genome of a high-producing strain (E3) obtained by random mutagenesis and screening from the wild-type strain NRRL23338, ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li YY,Chang X,Yu WB,Li H,Ye ZQ,Yu H,Liu BH,Zhang Y,Zhang SL,Ye BC,Li YX

更新日期：2013-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing is providing researchers with a relatively fast and affordable option for developing genomic resources for organisms that are not among the traditional genetic models. Here we present a de novo assembly of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) transcriptome using 454 sequence reads, and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fraser BA,Weadick CJ,Janowitz I,Rodd FH,Hughes KA

更新日期：2011-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haloquadratum walsbyi represents up to 80% of cells in NaCl-saturated brines worldwide, but is notoriously difficult to maintain under laboratory conditions. In order to establish the extent of genetic diversity in a natural population of this microbe, we screened a H. walsbyi enriched metagenomic fosmid lib...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Martin-Cuadrado AB,Pašić L,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The study and analysis of gene expression measurements is the primary focus of functional genomics. Once expression data is available, biologists are faced with the task of extracting (new) knowledge associated to the underlying biological phenomenon. Most often, in order to perform this task, biologists exe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miyazaki FA,Guardia GD,Vêncio RZ,de Farias CR

更新日期：2013-10-25 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:Whole transcriptome analyses are an essential tool for understanding disease mechanisms. Approaches based on next-generation sequencing provide fast and affordable data but rely on the availability of annotated genomes. However, there are many areas in biomedical research that require non-standard animal mod...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmucki R,Berrera M,Küng E,Lee S,Thasler WE,Grüner S,Ebeling M,Certa U

更新日期：2013-04-10 00:00:00