P_RNA_scaffolder: a fast and accurate genome scaffolder using paired-end RNA-sequencing reads.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health traits are of significant economic importance to the dairy industry due to their effects on milk production and associated treatment costs. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a means to identify associated genomic variants and thus reveal insights into the genetic architecture of complex t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Freebern E,Santos DJA,Fang L,Jiang J,Parker Gaddis KL,Liu GE,VanRaden PM,Maltecca C,Cole JB,Ma L

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The monophyly of flatfishes has not been supported in many molecular phylogenetic studies. The monophyly of Pleuronectoidei, which comprises all but one family of flatfishes, is broadly supported. However, the Psettodoidei, comprising the single family Psettodidae, is often found to be most closely related t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shi W,Chen S,Kong X,Si L,Gong L,Zhang Y,Yu H

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As economically relevant traits, feeding behavior and food preference domestication determine production cost and profitability. Although there are intensive research efforts on feeding behavior and food intake, little is known about food preference. Mandarin fish accept only live prey fish and refuse dead p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： He S,Liang XF,Sun J,Li L,Yu Y,Huang W,Qu CM,Cao L,Bai XL,Tao YX

更新日期：2013-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Propionibacterium acnes and Staphylococcus epidermidis live in close proximity on human skin, and both bacterial species can be isolated from normal and acne vulgaris-affected skin sites. The antagonistic interactions between the two species are poorly understood, as well as the potential significance of bac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Christensen GJ,Scholz CF,Enghild J,Rohde H,Kilian M,Thürmer A,Brzuszkiewicz E,Lomholt HB,Brüggemann H

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peromyscus are the most common mammalian species in North America and are widely used in both laboratory and field studies. The deer mouse, P. maniculatus and the old-field mouse, P. polionotus, are closely related and can generate viable and fertile hybrid offspring. The ability to generate hybrid offspring...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shang Z,Horovitz DJ,McKenzie RH,Keisler JL,Felder MR,Davis SW

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The central role of the somatotrophic axis in animal post-natal growth, development and fertility is well established. Therefore, the identification of genetic variants affecting quantitative traits within this axis is an attractive goal. However, large sample numbers are a pre-requisite for the identificati...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mullen MP,Creevey CJ,Berry DP,McCabe MS,Magee DA,Howard DJ,Killeen AP,Park SD,McGettigan PA,Lucy MC,Machugh DE,Waters SM

更新日期：2012-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Until very recently, cucumber genetic and genomic resources, especially molecular markers, have been very limited, impeding progress of cucumber breeding efforts. Microsatellites are short tandemly repeated DNA sequences, which are freque...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cavagnaro PF,Senalik DA,Yang L,Simon PW,Harkins TT,Kodira CD,Huang S,Weng Y

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer-related death of men worldwide. There is an urgent need to develop novel biomarkers for PCa prognosis and diagnosis in the post prostate-specific antigen era. Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) play essential roles in many physiological processes and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cui W,Qian Y,Zhou X,Lin Y,Jiang J,Chen J,Zhao Z,Shen B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most microbial eukaryotes are uncultivated and thus poorly suited to standard genomic techniques. This is the case for Polykrikos lebouriae, a dinoflagellate with ultrastructurally aberrant plastids. It has been suggested that these plastids stem from a novel symbiosis with either a diatom or haptophyte, but...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gavelis GS,White RA,Suttle CA,Keeling PJ,Leander BS

更新日期：2015-07-17 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:Intragenic tandem repeats occur throughout all domains of life and impart functional and structural variability to diverse translation products. Repeat proteins confer distinctive surface phenotypes to many unicellular organisms, including those with minimal genomes such as the wall-less bacterial monoderms,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Röske K,Foecking MF,Yooseph S,Glass JI,Calcutt MJ,Wise KS

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) RNA-editing is an essential post-transcriptional mechanism that occurs in numerous sites in the human transcriptome, mainly within Alu repeats. It has been shown to have consistent levels of editing across individuals in a few targets in the human brain and altered in several hu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Greenberger S,Levanon EY,Paz-Yaacov N,Barzilai A,Safran M,Osenberg S,Amariglio N,Rechavi G,Eisenberg E

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hard ticks (family Ixodidae) are obligatory hematophagous ectoparasites of worldwide medical and veterinary importance. The haploid genomes of multiple species of ixodid ticks exceed 1 Gbp, prompting questions regarding gene, segmental and whole genome duplication in this phyletic group. The availability of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Van Zee JP,Schlueter JA,Schlueter S,Dixon P,Sierra CA,Hill CA

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most published genome sequences are drafts, and most are dominated by computational gene prediction. Draft genomes typically incorporate considerable sequence data that are not assigned to chromosomes, and predicted genes without quality confidence measures. The current Actinidia chinensis (kiwifruit) 'Hongy...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pilkington SM,Crowhurst R,Hilario E,Nardozza S,Fraser L,Peng Y,Gunaseelan K,Simpson R,Tahir J,Deroles SC,Templeton K,Luo Z,Davy M,Cheng C,McNeilage M,Scaglione D,Liu Y,Zhang Q,Datson P,De Silva N,Gardiner SE,Bas

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the sequence of the Plasmodium falciparum genome and several global mRNA and protein life cycle expression profiling projects now completed, elucidating the underlying networks of transcriptional control important for the progression of the parasite life cycle is highly pertinent to the development of n...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Young JA,Johnson JR,Benner C,Yan SF,Chen K,Le Roch KG,Zhou Y,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2008-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural contamination and anthropogenic pollution of soils are likely to be major determinants of functioning and survival of keystone invertebrate taxa. Soil animals will have both evolutionary adaptation and genetically programmed responses to these toxic chemicals, but mechanistic understanding of such is...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Owen J,Hedley BA,Svendsen C,Wren J,Jonker MJ,Hankard PK,Lister LJ,Stürzenbaum SR,Morgan AJ,Spurgeon DJ,Blaxter ML,Kille P

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sugarcane is an economically important crop contributing about 80% and 40% to the world sugar and ethanol production, respectively. The complicated genetics consequential to its complex polyploid genome, however, have impeded efforts to improve sugar yield and related important agronomic traits. Modern sugar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang J,Arro J,Chen Y,Ming R

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ras-related proteins in brain (Rab)-family proteins are key members of the membrane trafficking pathway in cells. In addition, these proteins have been identified to have diverse functions such as cross-talking with different kinases and playing a role in cellular signaling. However, only a few Rab proteins ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kumar S,Lee HJ,Park HS,Lee K

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repeat masking is an important step in the EST analysis pipeline. For new species, genomic knowledge is scarce and good repeat libraries are typically unavailable. In these cases it is common practice to mask against known repeats from other species (i.e., model organisms). There are few studies that investi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Malde K,Jonassen I

更新日期：2008-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Baculoviruses are well known for their potential as biological agents for controlling agricultural and forest pests. They are also widely used as expression vectors in molecular cloning studies. The genome sequences of 48 baculoviruses are currently available in NCBI databases. As the number of sequenced vir...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu SY,Yi JP,Shen WD,Wang LQ,He HG,Wang Y,Li B,Wang WB

更新日期：2009-02-25 00:00:00

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:Chloroplasts have their own genomes, independent from nuclear genomes, that play vital roles in growth, which is a major targeted trait for genetic improvement in Populus. Angiosperm chloroplast genomes are maternally inherited, but the chloroplast' variation pattern of poplar at the single-base level during...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu S,Xu M,Wang H,Pan H,Wang G,Huang M

更新日期：2018-05-29 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:The pathogenesis-related (PR) group of proteins are operationally defined as polypeptides that increase in concentration in plant tissues upon contact with a pathogen. To date, 17 classes of highly divergent proteins have been described that act through multiple mechanisms of pathogen resistance. Characteriz...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fister AS,Mejia LC,Zhang Y,Herre EA,Maximova SN,Guiltinan MJ

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic approaches provide unique opportunities to study interactions of insects with their pathogens. We developed a cDNA microarray to analyze the gene transcription profile of the lepidopteran pest Spodoptera frugiperda in response to injection of the polydnavirus HdIV associated with the ichneumonid wasp...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Barat-Houari M,Hilliou F,Jousset FX,Sofer L,Deleury E,Rocher J,Ravallec M,Galibert L,Delobel P,Feyereisen R,Fournier P,Volkoff AN

更新日期：2006-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compromised intestinal barrier (CIB) has been associated with many enteropathies, including colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We hypothesized that CIB could lead to increased host-derived contents including epithelial cells into the gut, change its physio-metabolic properties, and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang P,Lai S,Wu S,Zhao XM,Chen WH

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bifidobacterial genome analysis has provided insights as to how these gut commensals adapt to and persist in the human GIT, while also revealing genetic diversity among members of a given bifidobacterial (sub)species. Bifidobacteria are notoriously recalcitrant to genetic modification, which prevents explora...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： O'Callaghan A,Bottacini F,O'Connell Motherway M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2015-10-21 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:Polypyrimidine-tract binding proteins (PTBs) are ubiquitous RNA-binding proteins in plants and animals that play diverse role in RNA metabolic processes. PTB proteins bind to target RNAs through motifs rich in cytosine/uracil residues to fine-tune transcript metabolism. Among tuber and root crops, potato has...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kondhare KR,Kumar A,Hannapel DJ,Banerjee AK

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pekin duck products have become popular in Asia over recent decades and account for an increasing market share. However, the genetic mechanisms affecting carcass growth in Pekin ducks remain unknown. This study aimed to identify quantitative trait loci affecting body size and carcass yields in Pekin ducks. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deng MT,Zhu F,Yang YZ,Yang FX,Hao JP,Chen SR,Hou ZC

更新日期：2019-01-03 00:00:00