The genetic regulation of size variation in the transcriptome of the cerebrum in the chicken and its role in domestication and brain size evolution.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) is an economically important plant forming organogenic nodules which can be used for genetic transformation and micropropagation. We are interested in the mechanisms underlying reprogramming of cells through stress and hormone treatments. RESULTS:An integrated molecular and metabolo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fortes AM,Santos F,Choi YH,Silva MS,Figueiredo A,Sousa L,Pessoa F,Santos BA,Sebastiana M,Palme K,Malhó R,Verpoorte R,Pais MS

更新日期：2008-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histone H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation (H3K4me3) and histone H3 lysine 9 tri-methylation (H3K9me3) are widely perceived to be opposing and often mutually exclusive chromatin modifications. However, both are needed for certain light-activated genes in Neurospora crassa (Neurospora), including frequency (frq) and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu Q,Ramakrishnan M,Park J,Belden WJ

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small untranslated RNAs (sRNAs) seem to be far more abundant than previously believed. The number of sRNAs confirmed in E. coli through various approaches is above 70, with several hundred more sRNA candidate genes under biological validation. Although the total number of sRNAs in any one species is still un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ulvé VM,Sevin EW,Chéron A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2007-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gonad is the major factor affecting animal reproduction. The regulatory mechanism of the expression of protein-coding genes involved in reproduction still remains to be elucidated. Increasing evidence has shown that ncRNAs play key regulatory roles in gene expression in many life processes. The roles of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma X,Cen S,Wang L,Zhang C,Wu L,Tian X,Wu Q,Li X,Wang X

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the underlying genetic structure of human populations is of fundamental interest to both biological and social sciences. Advances in high-throughput genotyping technology have markedly improved our understanding of global patterns of human genetic variation. The most widely used methods for col...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Maróti Z,Boldogkői Z,Tombácz D,Snyder M,Kalmár T

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-seq and microarray are the two popular methods employed for genome-wide transcriptome profiling. Current comparison studies have shown that transcriptome quantified by these two methods correlated well. However, none of them have addressed if they complement each other, considering the strengths and the ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kogenaru S,Qing Y,Guo Y,Wang N

更新日期：2012-11-15 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: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:Genome-scale functional genomic screens across large cell line panels provide a rich resource for discovering tumor vulnerabilities that can lead to the next generation of targeted therapies. Their data analysis typically has focused on identifying genes whose knockdown enhances response in various pre-defin...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu Z,Ihle NT,Rejto PA,Zarrinkar PP

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gut of phloem feeding insects is critical for nutrition uptake and xenobiotics degradation. However, partly due to its tiny size, genomic information for the gut of phloem feeding insects is limited. RESULTS:In this study, the gut transcriptomes of two species of invasive whiteflies in the Bemisia tabac...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ye XD,Su YL,Zhao QY,Xia WQ,Liu SS,Wang XW

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytochrome P450s (CYPs) in animals fall into two categories: those that synthesize or metabolize endogenous molecules and those that interact with exogenous chemicals from the diet or the environment. The latter form a critical component of detoxification systems. RESULTS:Data mining and manual curation of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Baldwin WS,Marko PB,Nelson DR

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the basis for volatile organic compound (VOC) biosynthesis and regulation is of great importance for the genetic improvement of fruit flavor. Lactones constitute an essential group of fatty acid-derived VOCs conferring peach-like aroma to a number of fruits including peach, plum, pineapple and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sánchez-Sevilla JF,Cruz-Rus E,Valpuesta V,Botella MA,Amaya I

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Ion Torrent PGM is a popular benchtop sequencer that shows promise in replacing conventional Sanger sequencing as the gold standard for mutation detection. Despite the PGM's reported high accuracy in calling single nucleotide variations, it tends to generate many false positive calls in detecting inserti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yeo ZX,Wong JC,Rozen SG,Lee AS

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression profiling has been proposed as a means for screening non-model organisms in their natural environments to identify genes potentially important in adaptive diversification. Tag profiling using high throughput sequencing is a relatively low cost means of expression profiling with deep coverage. Howe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Voelckel C,Gruenheit N,Biggs P,Deusch O,Lockhart P

更新日期：2012-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aquaculture is the quickest growing sector in agriculture. However, QTL for important traits have been only identified in a few aquaculture species. We conducted QTL mapping for growth traits in an Asian seabass F(2) family with 359 individuals using 123 microsatellites and 22 SNPs, and performed association...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xia JH,Lin G,He X,Liu P,Liu F,Sun F,Tu R,Yue GH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alternative splicing (AS) regulation is extensive and shapes the functional complexity of higher organisms. However, the contribution of alternative splicing to fungal biology is not well studied. RESULTS:This study provides sequences of the transcriptomes of the plant wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae, us...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jin L,Li G,Yu D,Huang W,Cheng C,Liao S,Wu Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In contrast to wild species, which have typically evolved phenotypes over long periods of natural selection, domesticates rapidly gained human-preferred agronomic traits in a relatively short-time frame via artificial selection. Under domesticated conditions, many traits can be observed that cannot only be d...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xiang H,Li X,Dai F,Xu X,Tan A,Chen L,Zhang G,Ding Y,Li Q,Lian J,Willden A,Guo Q,Xia Q,Wang J,Wang W

更新日期：2013-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although profiling of RNA in single cells has broadened our understanding of development, cancer biology and mechanisms of disease dissemination, it requires the development of reliable and flexible methods. Here we demonstrate that the EpiStem RNA-Amp™ methodology reproducibly generates microgram amounts of...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rothwell DG,Li Y,Ayub M,Tate C,Newton G,Hey Y,Carter L,Faulkner S,Moro M,Pepper S,Miller C,Blackhall F,Bertolini G,Roz L,Dive C,Brady G

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles funestus populations has led to an increase in malaria transmission in southern Africa. Resistance has been attributed to elevated activities of cytochrome P450s but the molecular basis underlying this metabolic resistance is unknown. Microsatellite and SNP markers were use...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wondji CS,Morgan J,Coetzee M,Hunt RH,Steen K,Black WC 4th,Hemingway J,Ranson H

更新日期：2007-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anthocyanins are a group of flavonoid compounds. As a group of important secondary metabolites, they perform several key biological functions in plants. Anthocyanins also play beneficial health roles as potentially protective factors against cancer and heart disease. To elucidate the anthocyanin biosynthetic...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo N,Cheng F,Wu J,Liu B,Zheng S,Liang J,Wang X

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Horseradish peroxidases (HRPs) from Armoracia rusticana have long been utilized as reporters in various diagnostic assays and histochemical stainings. Regardless of their increasing importance in the field of life sciences and suggested uses in medical applications, chemical synthesis and other industrial ap...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Näätsaari L,Krainer FW,Schubert M,Glieder A,Thallinger GG

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As is true for many other antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) are currently being assessed for their susceptibility to phage therapy as an antimicrobial treatment. The objective of this study was to perform genomic and limited functional characteriz...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lynch KH,Abdu AH,Schobert M,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2013-08-27 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:After polyploidization, a genome may experience large-scale genome-repatterning, featuring wide-spread DNA rearrangement and loss, and often chromosome number reduction. Grasses share a common tetraploidization, after which the originally doubled chromosome numbers reduced to different chromosome numbers amo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Z,Wang J,Pan Y,Lei T,Ge W,Wang L,Zhang L,Li Y,Zhao K,Liu T,Song X,Zhang J,Yu J,Hu J,Wang X

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viruses have unique properties, small genome and regions of high similarity, whose effects on metagenomic assemblies have not been characterized so far. This study uses diverse in silico simulated viromes to evaluate how extensively genomes can be assembled using different sequencing platforms and assemblers...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aguirre de Cárcer D,Angly FE,Alcamí A

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants contain significant quantities of small RNAs (sRNAs) derived from various sRNA biogenesis pathways. Many of these sRNAs play regulatory roles in plants. Previous analysis revealed that numerous sRNAs in corn, rice and soybean seeds have high sequence similarity to animal genes. However, exogenous RNA ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Y,Wiggins BE,Lawrence C,Petrick J,Ivashuta S,Heck G

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-expressing genes tend to cluster in eukaryotic genomes. This paper analyzes correlation between the proximity of eukaryotic genes and their transcriptional expression pattern in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) genome using available microarray data and gene annotation. RESULTS:The analyses show that neighbou...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ng YK,Wu W,Zhang L

更新日期：2009-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The out of Africa hypothesis has gained generalized consensus. However, many specific questions remain unsettled. To know whether the two M and N macrohaplogroups that colonized Eurasia were already present in Africa before the exit is puzzling. It has been proposed that the east African clade M1 supports a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： González AM,Larruga JM,Abu-Amero KK,Shi Y,Pestano J,Cabrera VM

更新日期：2007-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants (angiosperms) are highly dynamic in genome structure. The mitogenome of the earliest angiosperm Amborella is remarkable in carrying rampant foreign DNAs, in contrast to Liriodendron, the other only known early angiosperm mitogenome that is described as 'fossilized'. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dong S,Zhao C,Chen F,Liu Y,Zhang S,Wu H,Zhang L,Liu Y

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensive research based on the inverse expression relationship has been undertaken to discover the miRNA-mRNA regulatory modules involved in the infection of Hepatitis C virus (HCV), the leading cause of chronic liver diseases. However, biological studies in other fields have found that inverse expression r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Song R,Liu Q,Liu T,Li J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00