Are personalities genetically determined? Inferences from subsocial spiders.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and in tRNAs in the form of selenouridine (SeU). Selenophosphate synthetase (SelD) is required for both utilization traits. However, previous research also revealed SelDs in two organisms lacking Sec and SeU, suggest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Y,Turanov AA,Hatfield DL,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2008-05-29 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：:Following the publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Fig. 2 of the PDF version of their article. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Maarsingh JD,Yang S,Park JG,Haydel SE

更新日期：2019-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Synthetic systems that use positive feedback have been developed to control human disease vectors and crop pests. The tTAV system, which has been deployed in several insect species, relies on a positive feedback circuit that can be inhibited via dietary tetracycline. Although insects carrying tTAV fail to su...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bryk J,Reeves RG,Reed FA,Denton JA

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The t(12;21)(p13;q22) translocation is found in 20 to 25% of cases of childhood B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). This rearrangement results in the fusion of ETV6 (TEL) and RUNX1 (AML1) genes and defines a relatively uniform category, although only some patients suffer very late relapse. TEL/AM...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gandemer V,Rio AG,de Tayrac M,Sibut V,Mottier S,Ly Sunnaram B,Henry C,Monnier A,Berthou C,Le Gall E,Le Treut A,Schmitt C,Le Gall JY,Mosser J,Galibert MD

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

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:Computational methods that infer single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions from phenotype data may uncover new biological mechanisms in non-Mendelian diseases. However, practical aspects of such analysis face many problems. Present experimental studies typically use SNP arrays with hundreds of thousa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Toplak M,Curk T,Demsar J,Zupan B

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transcription factors peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ (PPARγ) and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) are key transcriptional regulators of adipocyte differentiation and function. We and others have previously shown that binding sites of these two transcription factors show a high degr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmidt SF,Jørgensen M,Chen Y,Nielsen R,Sandelin A,Mandrup S

更新日期：2011-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat is an excellent species to study freezing tolerance and other abiotic stresses. However, the sequence of the wheat genome has not been completely characterized due to its complexity and large size. To circumvent this obstacle and identify genes involved in cold acclimation and associated stresses, a la...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Houde M,Belcaid M,Ouellet F,Danyluk J,Monroy AF,Dryanova A,Gulick P,Bergeron A,Laroche A,Links MG,MacCarthy L,Crosby WL,Sarhan F

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous human genes encode potentially active DNA transposases or recombinases, but our understanding of their functions remains limited due to shortage of methods to profile their activities on endogenous genomic substrates. RESULTS:To enable functional analysis of human transposase-derived genes, we comb...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Henssen AG,Jiang E,Zhuang J,Pinello L,Socci ND,Koche R,Gonen M,Villasante CM,Armstrong SA,Bauer DE,Weng Z,Kentsis A

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long terminal repeat retrotransposons are the most abundant transposons in plants. They play important roles in alternative splicing, recombination, gene regulation, and defense mechanisms. Large-scale sequencing projects for plant genomes are currently underway. Software tools are important for annotating l...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Valencia JD,Girgis HZ

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The circadian rhythms regulate physiological functions and metabolism. Circadian Time (CT) is a unit to quantify the rhythm of endogenous circadian clock, independent of light influence. To understand the gene expression changes throughout CT, C57BL/6 J mice were maintained under constant darkness (DD) for 6...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Zhang S,Zhang W,Chen S,Rabearivony A,Shi Y,Liu J,Corton CJ,Liu C

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a gamma coronavirus that severely affects the poultry industry worldwide. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a subset of non-coding RNAs with a length of more than 200 nucleotides, have been recently recognized as pivotal factors in the pathogenesis of viral infections...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Cui P,Fu X,Zhang L,Yan W,Zhai Y,Lei C,Wang H,Yang X

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Yellow-feathered chickens (YFCs) have a long history in China. They are well-known for the nutritional and commercial importance attributable to their yellow color phenotype. Currently, there is a huge paucity in knowledge of the genetic determinants responsible for phenotypic and biochemical properties of t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang X,Otecko NO,Peng M,Weng Z,Li W,Chen J,Zhong M,Zhong F,Jin S,Geng Z,Luo W,He D,Ma C,Han J,Ommeh SC,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Du B

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus emerged in swine and quickly became a major global health threat. In mouse, non human primate, and swine infection models, the pH1N1 virus efficiently replicates in the lung and induces pro-inflammatory host responses; however, whether similar or different cellular path...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Go JT,Belisle SE,Tchitchek N,Tumpey TM,Ma W,Richt JA,Safronetz D,Feldmann H,Katze MG

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The environmental light-dark cycle is the dominant cue that maintains 24-h biological rhythms in multicellular organisms. In Drosophila, light entrainment is mediated by the photosensitive protein CRYPTOCHROME, but the role and extent of transcription regulation in light resetting of the dipteran clock is ye...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Adewoye AB,Kyriacou CP,Tauber E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xcc) is a citrus canker causing Gram-negative bacteria. Currently, little is known about the biological and molecular responses of Xcc to low temperatures. RESULTS:Results depicted that low temperature significantly reduced growth and increased biofilm formation and unsaturated ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liao JX,Li KH,Wang JP,Deng JR,Liu QG,Chang CQ

更新日期：2019-11-06 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:Identification and classification of highly similar microbial strains is a challenging issue in microbiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Among various available approaches, gene content analysis is also at the core of microbial taxonomy. However, no threshold has been determined for grouping microorgn...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tu Q,Lin L

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pectobacterium spp. are necrotrophic bacterial plant pathogens of the family Pectobacteriaceae, responsible for a wide spectrum of diseases of important crops and ornamental plants including soft rot, blackleg, and stem wilt. P. carotovorum is a genetically heterogeneous species consisting of three valid sub...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li X,Ma Y,Liang S,Tian Y,Yin S,Xie S,Xie H

更新日期：2018-12-07 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:Epigenetic clocks have been recognized for their precise prediction of chronological age, age-related diseases, and all-cause mortality. Existing epigenetic clocks are based on CpGs from the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (450 K) which has now been replaced by the latest platform, Illumina Methylation...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lee Y,Haftorn KL,Denault WRP,Nustad HE,Page CM,Lyle R,Lee-Ødegård S,Moen GH,Prasad RB,Groop LC,Sletner L,Sommer C,Magnus MC,Gjessing HK,Harris JR,Magnus P,Håberg SE,Jugessur A,Bohlin J

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlling gene expression is fundamental to biological complexity. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an important model for studying principles of gene regulation in multi-cellular organisms. A comprehensive parts list of putative regulatory motifs was yet missing for this model system. In this study,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dieterich C,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bacillus cereus sensu lato group consists of six species (B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis, and B. weihenstephanensis). While classical microbial taxonomy proposed these organisms as distinct species, newer molecular phylogenies and comparative genome sequencing s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmidt TR,Scott EJ 2nd,Dyer DW

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most frequently occurring brain malignancy in adults, clinical treatment still faces challenges due to poor prognoses and tumor relapses. Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) have been extensively used with the aim of developing accurate molecular therapies, because of the...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yerukala Sathipati S,Huang HL,Ho SY

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors (TFs) play essential roles during plant development and response to environmental stresses. However, the relationships among transcription factors, cis-acting elements and target gene expression under endo- and exogenous stimuli have not been systematically characterized. RESULTS:Here,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chow CN,Chiang-Hsieh YF,Chien CH,Zheng HQ,Lee TY,Wu NY,Tseng KC,Hou PF,Chang WC

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pattern of point mutation is important for studying mutational mechanisms, genome evolution, and diseases. Previous studies of mutation direction were largely based on substitution data from a limited number of loci. To date, there is no genome-wide analysis of mutation direction or methylation-dependent...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang C,Zhao Z

更新日期：2006-12-13 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:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and destruction of synovial joints. RA affects up to 1 % of the population worldwide. Currently, there are no drugs that can cure RA or achieve sustained remission. The unknown cause of the disease represents a significan...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu R,Wang Q

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important natural fiber crop worldwide, and cottonseed oil is its most important byproduct. Phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT) is important in TAG biosynthesis, as it catalyzes the transfer of a fatty acyl moiety from the sn-2 position of a phospholipid to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zang X,Geng X,Ma L,Wang N,Pei W,Wu M,Zhang J,Yu J

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00