Enhanced sugar accumulation and regulated plant hormone signalling genes contribute to cold tolerance in hypoploid Saccharum spontaneum.

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: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:NGS data contains many machine-induced errors. The most advanced methods for the error correction heavily depend on the selection of solid k-mers. A solid k-mer is a k-mer frequently occurring in NGS reads. The other k-mers are called weak k-mers. A solid k-mer does not likely contain errors, while a weak k-...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhao L,Xie J,Bai L,Chen W,Wang M,Zhang Z,Wang Y,Zhao Z,Li J

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Azadirachtin A is a triterpenoid from neem tree exhibiting excellent activities against over 600 insect species in agriculture. The production of azadirachtin A depends on extraction from neem tissues, which is not an eco-friendly and sustainable process. The low yield and discontinuous supply of azadirachti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang H,Wang N,Huo Y

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a serious heavy metal (HM) soil pollutant. To alleviate or even eliminate HM pollution in soil, environmental-friendly methods are applied. One is that special plants are cultivated to absorb the HM in the contaminated soil. As an excellent economical plant with ornamental value and sound ada...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang MQ,Bai ZY,Xiao YF,Li Y,Liu QL,Zhang L,Pan YZ,Jiang BB,Zhang F

更新日期：2019-11-20 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:In many eukaryotes, microRNAs (miRNAs) bind to complementary sites in the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and regulate their expression at the stage of translation. Recent studies have revealed that many miRNAs are evolutionarily conserved; however, the evolution of their t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Takane K,Fujishima K,Watanabe Y,Sato A,Saito N,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is recognised as a valuable model for research into adult stem cells and regeneration. With the advent of the high-throughput sequencing technologies, it has become feasible to undertake detailed transcriptional analysis of its unique stem cell population, the ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rodríguez-Esteban G,González-Sastre A,Rojo-Laguna JI,Saló E,Abril JF

更新日期：2015-05-08 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：BACKGROUND:Homeobox-containing genes encode crucial transcription factors involved in animal, plant and fungal development, and changes to homeobox genes have been linked to the evolution of novel body plans and morphologies. In animals, some homeobox genes are clustered together in the genome, either as remnants from ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li Y,Nong W,Baril T,Yip HY,Swale T,Hayward A,Ferrier DEK,Hui JHL

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress is a consequence of normal and abnormal cellular metabolism and is linked to the development of human diseases. The effective functioning of the pathway responding to oxidative stress protects the cellular DNA against oxidative damage; conversely the failure of the oxidative stress response ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sridharan S,Layek R,Datta A,Venkatraj J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The trypanosomatids Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei and Trypanosoma cruzi cause some of the most debilitating diseases of humankind: cutaneous leishmaniasis, African sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease. These protozoa possess complex life cycles that involve development in mammalian and insect hosts, ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Parsons M,Worthey EA,Ward PN,Mottram JC

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for genome-wide association requires technologies for generating millions of genotypes with relative ease but also at a reasonable cost and with high accuracy. In this work, we have developed a theoretical approach to estimate allele freque...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yin BC,Li H,Ye BC

更新日期：2008-12-16 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus arachidicola is an aflatoxigenic fungal species, first isolated from the leaves of a wild peanut species native to Argentina. It has since been reported in maize, Brazil nut and human sputum samples. This aflatoxigenic species is capable of secreting both B and G aflatoxins, similar to A. parasit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moore GG,Mack BM,Beltz SB,Puel O

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bulbs of the ornamental flower Lilium pumilum enter a period of dormancy after flowering in spring, and require exposure to cold for a period of time in order to release dormancy. Previous studies focused mainly on anatomical, physiological and biochemical changes during dormancy release. There are no dorman...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang W,Su X,Tian Z,Liu Y,Zhou Y,He M

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertions/deletions (InDels) are the major genetic variations and are distributed extensively across the whole plant genome. However, few studies of these variations have been conducted in the long-lived perennial tea plant. RESULTS:In this study, we investigated ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu S,An Y,Tong W,Qin X,Samarina L,Guo R,Xia X,Wei C

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Spemann/Mangold organizer is a transient tissue critical for patterning the gastrula stage vertebrate embryo and formation of the three germ layers. Despite its important role during development, there are still relatively few genes with specific expression in the organizer and its derivatives. Foxa2 is ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tamplin OJ,Kinzel D,Cox BJ,Bell CE,Rossant J,Lickert H

更新日期：2008-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is triggered by starvation. When placed on a solid substrate, the starving solitary amoebae cease growth, communicate via extracellular cAMP, aggregate by tens of thousands and develop into multicellular organisms. Early phases of the developmental prog...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rosengarten RD,Santhanam B,Fuller D,Katoh-Kurasawa M,Loomis WF,Zupan B,Shaulsky G

更新日期：2015-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The compromised performance of laying hens in the late phase of production relative to the peak production was thought to be associated with the impairment of intestinal functionality, which plays essential roles in contributing to their overall health and production performance. In the present study, RNA se...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang WW,Wang J,Zhang HJ,Wu SG,Qi GH

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-cell gene expression measurements offer opportunities in deriving mechanistic understanding of complex diseases, including cancer. However, due to the complex regulatory machinery of the cell, gene regulatory network (GRN) model inference based on such data still manifests significant uncertainty. RE...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hajiramezanali E,Imani M,Braga-Neto U,Qian X,Dougherty ER

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next generation sequencing (NGS) has become a universal practice in modern molecular biology. As the throughput of sequencing experiments increases, the preparation of conventional multiplexed libraries becomes more labor intensive. Conventional library preparation typically requires quality control (QC) tes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chiniquy J,Garber ME,Mukhopadhyay A,Hillson NJ

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Large-scale comparison of metazoan genomes has revealed that a significant fraction of genes of the last common ancestor of Bilateria (Urbilateria) is lost in each animal lineage. This event could be one of the underlying mechanisms involved in generating metazoan diversity. However, the present functions of...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Matsui T,Yamamoto T,Wyder S,Zdobnov EM,Kadowaki T

更新日期：2009-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Free asparagine is the precursor for acrylamide formation during cooking and processing of grains, tubers, beans and other crop products. In wheat grain, free asparagine, free glutamine and total free amino acids accumulate to high levels in response to sulphur deficiency. In this study, RNA-seq data were ac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Curtis TY,Raffan S,Wan Y,King R,Gonzalez-Uriarte A,Halford NG

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA microarray technology has had a great impact on muscle research and microarray gene expression data has been widely used to identify gene signatures characteristic of the studied conditions. With the rapid accumulation of muscle microarray data, it is of great interest to understand how to compare and co...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Baron D,Dubois E,Bihouée A,Teusan R,Steenman M,Jourdon P,Magot A,Péréon Y,Veitia R,Savagner F,Ramstein G,Houlgatte R

更新日期：2011-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive evolution is one of the major goals in evolutionary biology. Recently, it has been revealed that gene copy number variations (GCNVs) constitute significant proportions of genomic diversities within natural populations. However, it has been unclear whether GCNVs are...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hirase S,Ozaki H,Iwasaki W

更新日期：2014-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The packaging of DNA into chromatin regulates transcription from initiation through 3' end processing. One aspect of transcription in which chromatin plays a poorly understood role is the co-transcriptional splicing of pre-mRNA. RESULTS:Here we provide evidence that H2B monoubiquitylation (H2BK123ub1) marks...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shieh GS,Pan CH,Wu JH,Sun YJ,Wang CC,Hsiao WC,Lin CY,Tung L,Chang TH,Fleming AB,Hillyer C,Lo YC,Berger SL,Osley MA,Kao CF

更新日期：2011-12-22 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:Wine produced at low temperature is often considered to improve sensory qualities. However, there are certain drawbacks to low temperature fermentations: e.g. low growth rate, long lag phase, and sluggish or stuck fermentations. Selection and development of new Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains well adapted a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： López-Malo M,García-Rios E,Melgar B,Sanchez MR,Dunham MJ,Guillamón JM

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many microbial genomes, a strong preference for a small number of codons can be observed in genes whose products are needed by the cell in large quantities. This codon usage bias (CUB) improves translational accuracy and speed and is one of several factors optimizing cell growth. Whereas CUB and the overr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： von Mandach C,Merkl R

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00