Genomics of sex allocation in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat yellow (stripe) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST) is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat worldwide. To design effective breeding strategies that maximize the potential for durable disease resistance it is important to understand the molecular basis of PST pathogenicity....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cantu D,Segovia V,MacLean D,Bayles R,Chen X,Kamoun S,Dubcovsky J,Saunders DG,Uauy C

更新日期：2013-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-cell (sc) sequencing performs unbiased profiling of individual cells and enables evaluation of less prevalent cellular populations, often missed using bulk sequencing. However, the scale and the complexity of the sc datasets poses a great challenge in its utility and this problem is further exacerbate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kumar N,Golhar R,Sharma KS,Holloway JL,Sarangi S,Neuhaus I,Walsh AM,Pitluk ZW

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Domestic broiler chickens rapidly accumulate adipose tissue due to intensive genetic selection for rapid growth and are naturally hyperglycemic and insulin resistant, making them an attractive addition to the suite of rodent models used for studies of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans. Furthermore, chick...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ji B,Ernest B,Gooding JR,Das S,Saxton AM,Simon J,Dupont J,Métayer-Coustard S,Campagna SR,Voy BH

更新日期：2012-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Democratising the growing body of whole genome sequencing data available for Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) has been impeded by the lack of a genome reference and the large computational requirements for analysing these data sets. RESULTS:DAWN (Diversity Among Wheat geNomes) integrates data from the T. aes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Watson-Haigh NS,Suchecki R,Kalashyan E,Garcia M,Baumann U

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems, abundant in prokaryotes, are composed of a toxin gene and its cognate antitoxin. Several toxins are implied to affect the physiological state and stress tolerance of bacteria in a population. We previously identified a chromosomally encoded hok-sok type I TA system in Erwinia am...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Peng J,Triplett LR,Sundin GW

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of alternative splicing provides a unique mechanism by which eukaryotes are able to produce numerous protein products from the same gene. Heightened variability in the proteome has been thought to potentiate increased behavioral complexity and response flexibility to environmental stimuli, thus c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lang AS,Austin SH,Harris RM,Calisi RM,MacManes MD

更新日期：2020-03-23 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:The superior temporal gyrus (STG), which encompasses the primary auditory cortex, is believed to be a major anatomical substrate for speech, language and communication. The STG connects to the limbic system (hippocampus and amygdala), the thalamus and neocortical association areas in the prefrontal cortex, a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bowden NA,Scott RJ,Tooney PA

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a reference genome is crucial to many high throughput genomic technologies. RESULTS:We propose an intuitive and efficient algorithm, titled extreme MApping of OligoNucleotide (xMAN), to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Carroll JS,Brown M,Liu xS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental heterogeneity continuously produces a selective pressure that results in genomic variation among organisms; understanding this relationship remains a challenge in evolutionary biology. Here, we evaluated the degree of genome-environmental association of seven stonefly species across a wide geog...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gamboa M,Watanabe K

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An organism can respond to changing environmental conditions by adjusting gene regulation and by forming alternative phenotypes. In nematodes, these mechanisms are coupled because many species will form dauer larvae, a stress-resistant and non-aging developmental stage, when exposed to unfavorable environmen...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sinha A,Sommer RJ,Dieterich C

更新日期：2012-06-19 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:Sugarcane is a major sugar and biofuel crop, but genomic research and molecular breeding have lagged behind other major crops due to the complexity of auto-allopolyploid genomes. Sugarcane cultivars are frequently aneuploid with chromosome number ranging from 100 to 130, consisting of 70-80 % S. officinarum,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang J,Sharma A,Yu Q,Wang J,Li L,Zhu L,Zhang X,Chen Y,Ming R

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With advances in next generation sequencing technology and analysis methods, single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and indels can be detected with high sensitivity and specificity in exome sequencing data. Recent studies have demonstrated the ability to detect disease-causing copy number variants (CNVs) in exome...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Samarakoon PS,Sorte HS,Stray-Pedersen A,Rødningen OK,Rognes T,Lyle R

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sterol esterases and lipases are enzymes able to efficiently catalyze synthesis and hydrolysis reactions of both sterol esters and triglycerides and due to their versatility could be widely used in different industrial applications. Lipases with this ability have been reported in the yeast Candida rugosa tha...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Barriuso J,Prieto A,Martínez MJ

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The capacity of European pear fruit (Pyrus communis L.) to ripen after harvest develops during the final stages of growth on the tree. The objective of this study was to characterize changes in 'Bartlett' pear fruit physico-chemical properties and transcription profiles during fruit maturation leading to att...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nham NT,de Freitas ST,Macnish AJ,Carr KM,Kietikul T,Guilatco AJ,Jiang CZ,Zakharov F,Mitcham EJ

更新日期：2015-10-09 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:Mitochondrial genomes comprise a small but critical component of the total DNA in eukaryotic organisms. They encode several key proteins for the cell's major energy producing apparatus, the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Additionally, their nucleotide and amino acid sequences are of great utility as marker...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lloyd RE,Foster PG,Guille M,Littlewood DT

更新日期：2012-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving fiber quality is a major challenge in cotton breeding, since the molecular basis of fiber quality traits is poorly understood. Fine mapping and candidate gene prediction of quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling cotton fiber quality traits can help to elucidate the molecular basis of fiber quali...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu D,Zhang J,Liu X,Wang W,Liu D,Teng Z,Fang X,Tan Z,Tang S,Yang J,Zhong J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The MYB gene family comprises one of the richest groups of transcription factors in plants. Plant MYB proteins are characterized by a highly conserved MYB DNA-binding domain. MYB proteins are classified into four major groups namely, 1R-MYB, 2R-MYB, 3R-MYB and 4R-MYB based on the number and position of MYB r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Katiyar A,Smita S,Lenka SK,Rajwanshi R,Chinnusamy V,Bansal KC

更新日期：2012-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While changes in chromosome number that result in aneuploidy are associated with phenotypic consequences such as Down syndrome and cancer, the molecular causes of specific phenotypes and genome-wide expression changes that occur in aneuploids are still being elucidated. RESULTS:We employed a segmental aneup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Makarevitch I,Phillips RL,Springer NM

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood-born miRNA signatures have recently been reported for various tumor diseases. Here, we compared the miRNA signature in Wilms tumor patients prior and after preoperative chemotherapy according to SIOP protocol 2001. RESULTS:We did not find a significant difference between miRNA signature of both groups...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmitt J,Backes C,Nourkami-Tutdibi N,Leidinger P,Deutscher S,Beier M,Gessler M,Graf N,Lenhof HP,Keller A,Meese E

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is clinically defined in terms of motor symptoms. These are preceded by prodromal non-motor manifestations that prove the systemic nature of the disease. Identifying genes and pathways altered in living patients provide new inf...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Calligaris R,Banica M,Roncaglia P,Robotti E,Finaurini S,Vlachouli C,Antonutti L,Iorio F,Carissimo A,Cattaruzza T,Ceiner A,Lazarevic D,Cucca A,Pangher N,Marengo E,di Bernardo D,Pizzolato G,Gustincich S

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxoplasmosis is caused by the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii and can be acquired either congenitally or via the oral route. In the latter case, transmission is mediated by two distinct invasive stages, i.e., bradyzoites residing in tissue cysts or sporozoites contained in environmentally resistant ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Possenti A,Fratini F,Fantozzi L,Pozio E,Dubey JP,Ponzi M,Pizzi E,Spano F

更新日期：2013-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial genomic sequences are known to be variable. Comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes can reveal the nature and extent of their variation. RESULTS:Draft mitochondrial genomes of 16 Tremella fuciformis isolates (TF01-TF16) were assembled from Illumina and PacBio sequencing data. Mitochondri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deng Y,Zhang X,Xie B,Lin L,Hsiang T,Lin X,Lin Y,Zhang X,Ma Y,Miao W,Ming R

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the classification of Mass Spectrometry (MS) proteomics data, peak detection, feature selection, and learning classifiers are critical to classification accuracy. To better understand which methods are more accurate when classifying data, some publicly available peak detection algorithms for Matrix assi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Sung AH,Qiao M,Chen Z,Yang JY,Yang MQ,Huang X,Deng Y

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that the main factors of low prenatal growth in mammals are genetic and environmental. We used isogenic mice maintained in standard conditions to analyze how natural non-genetic microsomia (low birth weight) is produced in inbred mice and its long term effect on health. To better understand th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Miranda A,López-Cardona AP,Laguna-Barraza R,Calle A,López-Vidriero I,Pintado B,Gutiérrez-Adán A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput omics technologies such as microarrays and next-generation sequencing (NGS) have become indispensable tools in biological research. Computational analysis and biological interpretation of omics data can pose significant challenges due to a number of factors, in particular the systems integrat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hermida L,Poussin C,Stadler MB,Gubian S,Sewer A,Gaidatzis D,Hotz HR,Martin F,Belcastro V,Cano S,Peitsch MC,Hoeng J

更新日期：2013-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Succinate is produced petrochemically from maleic anhydride to satisfy a small specialty chemical market. If succinate could be produced fermentatively at a price competitive with that of maleic anhydride, though, it could replace maleic anhydride as the precursor of many bulk chemicals, transforming a multi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McKinlay JB,Laivenieks M,Schindler BD,McKinlay AA,Siddaramappa S,Challacombe JF,Lowry SR,Clum A,Lapidus AL,Burkhart KB,Harkins V,Vieille C

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homologous recombination is the key process that generates genetic diversity and drives evolution. SPO11 protein triggers recombination by introducing DNA double stranded breaks at discreet areas of the genome called recombination hotspots. The hotspot locations are largely determined by the DNA binding spec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Smagulova F,Brick K,Pu Y,Sengupta U,Camerini-Otero RD,Petukhova GV

更新日期：2013-07-22 00:00:00