Puccinia triticina pathotypes THTT and THTS display complex transcript profiles on wheat cultivar Thatcher.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pest eradication using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) involves high-density releases of sterilized males that mate with wild females and ultimately suppress the population. Sterilized females are not required for SIT and their removal or separation from males prior to release remains challenging. In orde...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Choo A,Fung E,Chen IY,Saint R,Crisp P,Baxter SW

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To contribute to the knowledge of coleopteran cytogenetics, especially with respect to the genomic content of B chromosomes, we analyzed the composition and organization of repetitive DNA sequences in the Coprophanaeus cyanescens karyotype. We used conventional staining and the application of fluorescence in...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gomes de Oliveira S,Cassia de Moura R,Martins C

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We propose a gene-level association test that accounts for individual relatedness and population structures in pedigree data in the framework of linear mixed models (LMMs). Our method data-adaptively combines the results across a class of score-based tests, only requiring fitting a single null model (under t...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Park JY,Wu C,Pan W

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Africanized honey bee is one of the most spectacular invasions in the Americas. African bees escaped from apiaries in Brazil in 1956, spread over Americas and by 1994 they were reported in Puerto Rico. In contrast to other places, the oceanic island conditions in Puerto Rico may mean a single introductio...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Galindo-Cardona A,Acevedo-Gonzalez JP,Rivera-Marchand B,Giray T

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The structure of haplogroup H reveals significant differences between the western and eastern edges of the Mediterranean, as well as between the northern and southern regions. Human populations along the westernmost Mediterranean coasts, which were settled by individuals from two continents separated by a re...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Hernández CL,Dugoujon JM,Novelletto A,Rodríguez JN,Cuesta P,Calderón R

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two key questions in understanding the genetic control of behaviors are: what genes are involved and how these genes interact. To answer these questions at a systems level, we conducted high-content profiling of Drosophila larval locomotor behaviors for over 100 genotypes. RESULTS:We studied 69 genes whose ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Aleman-Meza B,Loeza-Cabrera M,Peña-Ramos O,Stern M,Zhong W

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is among the prominent crops in the world as food and feed. There are relatively few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers developed from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in P. sativum. RESULTS:In the present study, 15 new EST-SSR markers were developed from publicly available ESTs...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Teshome A,Bryngelsson T,Dagne K,Geleta M

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic maps based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) are increasingly being used as an alternative to microsatellite maps. This study compares linkage results for both types of maps for a neurophysiology phenotype and for an alcohol dependence phenotype. Our analysis used two SNP maps on the Illumina ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Dunn G,Hinrichs AL,Bertelsen S,Jin CH,Kauwe JS,Suarez BK,Bierut LJ

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified 20 promising candidate genes for milk fatty acid (FA) traits in a Chinese Holstein population, including PRLR, MOGAT1, MINPP1 and CHUK genes. In this study, we performed whether they had significant genetic effects on milk FA traits in Chinese Holst...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Shi L,Liu L,Lv X,Ma Z,Yang Y,Li Y,Zhao F,Sun D,Han B

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cymbidium is a genus of 68 species in the orchid family, with extremely high ornamental value. Marker-assisted selection has proven to be an effective strategy in accelerating plant breeding for many plant species. Analysis of cymbidiums genetic background by molecular markers can be of great value in assist...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Li X,Jin F,Jin L,Jackson A,Huang C,Li K,Shu X

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the crossover frequency in 1,232 gametes from 356 subjects in pedigrees from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics on Alcoholism. We examined the effect of covariates including age, ethnicity, and years with ALDX1 on recombination rate, and found a positive correlation between recombination rate and yea...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang L,Xu X

更新日期：2005-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic epidemiologists have taken the challenge to identify genetic polymorphisms involved in the development of diseases. Many have collected data on large numbers of genetic markers but are not familiar with available methods to assess their association with complex diseases. Statistical methods have been developed...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Heidema AG,Boer JM,Nagelkerke N,Mariman EC,van der A DL,Feskens EJ

更新日期：2006-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is one of the most important abiotic stresses causing drastic reductions in yield in rainfed rice environments. The suitability of grain yield (GY) under drought as a selection criterion has been reported in the past few years. Most of the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for GY under drought in rice r...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Vikram P,Swamy BP,Dixit S,Ahmed HU,Teresa Sta Cruz M,Singh AK,Kumar A

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monogenic diabetes is a genetic disease often caused by mutations in genes involved in beta-cell function. Correct sub-categorization of the disease is a prerequisite for appropriate treatment and genetic counseling. Target-region capture sequencing is a combination of genomic region enrichment and next gene...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Gao R,Liu Y,Gjesing AP,Hollensted M,Wan X,He S,Pedersen O,Yi X,Wang J,Hansen T

更新日期：2014-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many QTL studies have two common features: (1) often there is missing marker information, (2) among many markers involved in the biological process only a few are causal. In statistics, the second issue falls under the headings "sparsity" and "causal inference". The goal of this work is to develop a two-step...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Demetrashvili N,Van den Heuvel ER,Wit EC

更新日期：2013-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles types 1 and 3 (CFEOM1/CFEOM3) are autosomal dominant strabismus disorders that appear to result from maldevelopment of ocular nuclei and nerves. We previously reported that most individuals with CFEOM1 and rare individuals with CFEOM3 harbor heterozygous mutatio...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Chan WM,Andrews C,Dragan L,Fredrick D,Armstrong L,Lyons C,Geraghty MT,Hunter DG,Yazdani A,Traboulsi EI,Pott JW,Gutowski NJ,Ellard S,Young E,Hanisch F,Koc F,Schnall B,Engle EC

更新日期：2007-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) proteins play important roles in hormone signal transduction, developmental regulation, and environmental stress tolerance. However, in wheat, the CAMTA gene family has not been systematically characterized. RESULTS:In this work, 15 wheat CAMTA genes ...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang F,Dong FS,Hu FH,Liu YW,Chai JF,Zhao H,Lv MY,Zhou S

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] is one of the most economically important fruit crops that, due to its genetic and biological characteristics (small genome size, taxonomic proximity to other important species and short juvenile period), has become a model plant in genomic studies of fruit trees. Our aim w...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Aranzana MJ,Abbassi el-K,Howad W,Arús P

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ENU-mutagenesis is a powerful technique to identify genes regulating mammalian development. To functionally annotate the distal region of mouse chromosome 4, we performed an ENU-mutagenesis screen using a balancer chromosome targeted to this region of the genome. RESULTS:We isolated 11 lethal lines that map...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Boles MK,Wilkinson BM,Maxwell A,Lai L,Mills AA,Nishijima I,Salinger AP,Moskowitz I,Hirschi KK,Liu B,Bradley A,Justice MJ

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-invasive sampling has opened avenues for the genetic study of elusive species, which has contributed significantly to their conservation. Where field based identity of non-invasive sample is ambiguous (e.g. carnivore scats), it is essential to establish identity of the species through molecular approache...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Maroju PA,Yadav S,Kolipakam V,Singh S,Qureshi Q,Jhala Y

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stripe rust is a serious fungal disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), which results in yield reduction and decreased grain quality. Breeding for genetic resistance to stripe rust is the most cost-effective method to control the disease. In the present st...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yao F,Zhang X,Ye X,Li J,Long L,Yu C,Li J,Wang Y,Wu Y,Wang J,Jiang Q,Li W,Ma J,Wei Y,Zheng Y,Chen G

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine if variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) in the second intron (STin2) of the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) gene was associated with tobacco use disorder, successful smoking cessation, or smoking characteristics. In this case-control study, patients with current toba...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Pizzo de Castro MR,Maes M,Guembarovski RL,Ariza CB,Reiche EM,Vargas HO,Vargas MM,de Melo LG,Dodd S,Berk M,Watanabe MA,Nunes SO

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In mice MEOX2/TCF15 heterodimers are highly expressed in heart endothelial cells and are involved in the transcriptional regulation of lipid transport. In a general population, we investigated whether genetic variation in these genes predicted coronary heart disease (CHD). RESULTS:In 2027 participants rando...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang WY,Petit T,Thijs L,Zhang ZY,Jacobs L,Hara A,Wei FF,Salvi E,Citterio L,Delli Carpini S,Gu YM,Knez J,Cauwenberghs N,Barcella M,Barlassina C,Manunta P,Coppiello G,Aranguren XL,Kuznetsova T,Cusi D,Verhamme P,Lu

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is involved in the recruitment of lymphocytes and monocytes and their migration to sites of injury and cellular immune reactions. In a Ghanaian tuberculosis (TB) case-control study group, associations of the MCP1 -362C and the MCP1 -2581G alleles with resistance...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Intemann CD,Thye T,Förster B,Owusu-Dabo E,Gyapong J,Horstmann RD,Meyer CG

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is a diploid C4 panicoid species. Because of its prominent drought resistance, small genome size, self-pollination, and short life cycle, foxtail millet has become an ideal model system for studying drought tolerance of crops. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous, small RNAs tha...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Wang Y,Li L,Tang S,Liu J,Zhang H,Zhi H,Jia G,Diao X

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) is expressed in the growth plate of endochondral bones and serves as a negative regulator of linear bone elongation. Activating mutations severely limit bone growth, resulting in dwarfism, while inactivating mutations significantly enhance bone elongation and overa...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Smith LB,Bannasch DL,Young AE,Grossman DI,Belanger JM,Oberbauer AM

更新日期：2008-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-wide investigation of molecular mechanisms for high-altitude adaptation has attracted great attention in the last few years. In order to understand the contribution of gene expression level variations to high-altitude adaptation in Asiatic toads (Bufo gargarizans), we implemented a reciprocal transpla...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Yang W,Qi Y,Lu B,Qiao L,Wu Y,Fu J

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In humans, muscle-specific nicotinergic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is a transmembrane protein with five different subunits, coded by CHRNA1, CHRNB, CHRND and CHRNG/CHRNE. The gamma subunit of AChR encoded by CHRNG is expressed during early foetal development, whereas in the adult, the γ subunit is replace...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Kariminejad A,Almadani N,Khoshaeen A,Olsson B,Moslemi AR,Tajsharghi H

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discerning the traits evolving under neutral conditions from those traits evolving rapidly because of various selection pressures is a great challenge. We propose a new method, composite selection signals (CSS), which unifies the multiple pieces of selection evidence from the rank distribution of its diverse...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Randhawa IA,Khatkar MS,Thomson PC,Raadsma HW

更新日期：2014-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moths of genus Dendrolimus (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) are among the major pests of coniferous forests worldwide. Taxonomy and nomenclature of this genus are not entirely established, and there are many species with a controversial taxonomic position. We present a comparative evolutionary analysis of the mo...

journal_title：BMC genetics

authors： Kononov A,Ustyantsev K,Wang B,Mastro VC,Fet V,Blinov A,Baranchikov Y

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00