An updated explanation of ancestral karyotype changes and reconstruction of evolutionary trajectories to form Camelina sativa chromosomes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The steadily increasing number of prokaryotic genomes has accelerated the study of genome evolution; in particular, the availability of sets of genomes from closely related bacteria has facilitated the exploration of the mechanisms underlying genome plasticity. The family Vibrionaceae is found in the Gammapr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gu J,Neary J,Cai H,Moshfeghian A,Rodriguez SA,Lilburn TG,Wang Y

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida albicans is a diploid pathogenic fungus not yet amenable to routine genetic investigations. Understanding aspects of the regulation of its biological functions and the assembly of its protein complexes would lead to further insight into the biology of this common disease-causing microbial agent. RES...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lavoie H,Sellam A,Askew C,Nantel A,Whiteway M

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is one of the most important fruit trees cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas. However, a lack of transcriptomic and genomic information hinders our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying fruit set and fruit development in litchi. Shading during early fru...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li C,Wang Y,Huang X,Li J,Wang H,Li J

更新日期：2013-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using a combination of pyrosequencing and conventional Sanger sequencing, the complete genome sequence of the recently described novel Brucella species, Brucella microti, was determined. B. microti is a member of the genus Brucella within the Alphaproteobacteria, which consists of medically important highly ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Audic S,Lescot M,Claverie JM,Scholz HC

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fistular leaves frequently appear in Allium species, and previous developmental studies have proposed that the process of fistular leaf formation involves programmed cell death. However, molecular evidence for the role of programmed cell death in the formation of fistular leaf cavities has yet to be reported...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu S,Tang S,Tan Z,Yu Y,Dai Q,Liu T

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many bacteria can deliver pathogenic proteins (effectors) through type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) to eukaryotic cytoplasm, causing host diseases. The inherent property, such as sequence diversity and global scattering throughout the whole genome, makes it a big challenge to effectively identify the full se...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Y,Wei X,Bao H,Liu SL

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number variants (CNVs) have been shown to increase risk for physical anomalies, developmental, psychiatric and medical disorders. Some of them have been associated with changes in weight, height, and other physical traits. As most studies have been performed on children and young people, these effects o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Owen D,Bracher-Smith M,Kendall KM,Rees E,Einon M,Escott-Price V,Owen MJ,O'Donovan MC,Kirov G

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salinity is an abiotic stress that negatively affects soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seed yield. Although a major gene for salt tolerance was identified and consistently mapped to chromosome (Chr.) 3 by linkage mapping studies, it does not fully explain genetic variability for tolerance in soybean germplas...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Do TD,Vuong TD,Dunn D,Clubb M,Valliyodan B,Patil G,Chen P,Xu D,Nguyen HT,Shannon JG

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phytoflagellated protozoan, Euglena gracilis, has been proposed as an attractive feedstock for the accumulation of valuable compounds such as β-1,3-glucan, also known as paramylon, and wax esters. The production of wax esters proceeds under anaerobic conditions, designated as wax ester fermentation. In s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yoshida Y,Tomiyama T,Maruta T,Tomita M,Ishikawa T,Arakawa K

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rice false smut caused by Villosiclava virens is a devastating fungal disease that spreads in major rice-growing regions throughout the world. However, the genomic information for this fungal pathogen is limited and the pathogenic mechanism of this disease is still not clear. To facilitate genetic, molecular...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang X,Liu Q,Wang H,Luo CX,Wang G,Luo M

更新日期：2013-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant nucleotide-binding site (NBS)-leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins encoded by resistance genes play an important role in the responses of plants to various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and nematodes. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of NBS-encoding genes within the whole cucumber...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wan H,Yuan W,Bo K,Shen J,Pang X,Chen J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important subfamily of membrane proteins are the transmembrane alpha-helical proteins, in which the membrane-spanning regions are made up of alpha-helices. Given the obvious biological and medical significance of these proteins, it is of tremendous practical importance to identify the location of transmem...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang JY,Yang MQ,Dunker AK,Deng Y,Huang X

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Descriptive hierarchical Poisson models and population-genetic coalescent mixture models are used to describe the observed variation in single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density from samples of size two across the human genome. RESULTS:Using empirical estimates of recombination rate across the human geno...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sainudiin R,Clark AG,Durrett RT

更新日期：2007-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In mammals, CEACAM1 and closely related members represent paired receptors with similar extracellular ligand-binding regions and cytoplasmic domains with opposing functions. Human CEACAM1 and CEACAM3 which have inhibitory ITIM/ITSM and activating ITAM-like motifs, respectively, in their cytoplasmic regions a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zimmermann W,Kammerer R

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing is providing researchers with a relatively fast and affordable option for developing genomic resources for organisms that are not among the traditional genetic models. Here we present a de novo assembly of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) transcriptome using 454 sequence reads, and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fraser BA,Weadick CJ,Janowitz I,Rodd FH,Hughes KA

更新日期：2011-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression implicated in multiple cellular processes. Cyclic stretch of alveoli is characteristic of mechanical ventilation, and is postulated to be partly responsible for the lung injury and inflammation in ventilator-induced lung injury. We pro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yehya N,Yerrapureddy A,Tobias J,Margulies SS

更新日期：2012-04-26 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:Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., is one of the most important food and forage legumes in the semi-arid tropics because of its drought tolerance and ability to grow on poor quality soils. Approximately 80% of cowpea production takes place in the dry savannahs of tropical West and Central Africa, mostly b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Timko MP,Rushton PJ,Laudeman TW,Bokowiec MT,Chipumuro E,Cheung F,Town CD,Chen X

更新日期：2008-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phomopsis longicolla T. W. Hobbs (syn. Diaporthe longicolla) is a seed-borne fungus causing Phomopsis seed decay in soybean. This disease is one of the most devastating diseases reducing soybean seed quality worldwide. To facilitate investigation of the genomic basis of pathogenicity and to understand the me...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li S,Darwish O,Alkharouf NW,Musungu B,Matthews BF

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus), a small non-endangered New World primate native to eastern Brazil, is becoming increasingly used as a non-human primate model in biomedical research, drug development and safety assessment. In contrast to the growing interest for the marmoset as an animal mode...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Datson NA,Morsink MC,Atanasova S,Armstrong VW,Zischler H,Schlumbohm C,Dutilh BE,Huynen MA,Waegele B,Ruepp A,de Kloet ER,Fuchs E

更新日期：2007-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia pecorum is an important pathogen of domesticated livestock including sheep, cattle and pigs. This pathogen is also a key factor in the decline of the koala in Australia. We sequenced the genomes of three koala C. pecorum strains, isolated from the urogenital tracts and conjunctiva of diseased koala...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bachmann NL,Fraser TA,Bertelli C,Jelocnik M,Gillett A,Funnell O,Flanagan C,Myers GS,Timms P,Polkinghorne A

更新日期：2014-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The variability in gene organization and architecture of green algal mitochondrial genomes is only recently being studied on a finer taxonomic scale. Sequenced mt genomes from the chlorophycean orders Volvocales and Sphaeropleales exhibit considerable variation in size, content, and structure, even among clo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Farwagi AA,Fučíková K,McManus HA

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsatellites (repeated subsequences based on motifs of one to six nucleotides) are widely used as codominant genetic markers because of their frequent polymorphism and relative selective neutrality. Minisatellites are repeats of motifs having seven or more nucleotides. The large number of EST sequences no...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Crane CF

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is strong but mostly circumstantial evidence that genetic factors modulate the severity of influenza infection in humans. Using genetically diverse but fully inbred strains of mice it has been shown that host sequence variants have a strong influence on the severity of influenza A disease progression. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nedelko T,Kollmus H,Klawonn F,Spijker S,Lu L,Heßman M,Alberts R,Williams RW,Schughart K

更新日期：2012-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a predominant member of the human gut microbiota, is characterized by its ability to utilize a wide variety of polysaccharides using the extensive saccharolytic machinery that is controlled by an expanded repertoire of transcription factors (TFs). The availability of genomic seq...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ravcheev DA,Godzik A,Osterman AL,Rodionov DA

更新日期：2013-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:NOD26-like intrinsic proteins (NIPs) that belong to the aquaporin superfamily are plant-specific and exhibit a similar three-dimensional structure. Experimental evidences however revealed that functional divergence should have extensively occurred among NIP genes. It is therefore intriguing to further invest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Wang H,Zhang Z,Wu J,Feng Y,Zhu Z

更新日期：2009-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glandular trichomes produce a wide variety of commercially important secondary metabolites in many plant species. The most prominent anti-malarial drug artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone, is produced in glandular trichomes of Artemisia annua. However, only limited genomic information is currently available...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang W,Wang Y,Zhang Q,Qi Y,Guo D

更新日期：2009-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders in the world. Studying PD from systems biology perspective involving genes and their regulators might provide deeper insights into the complex molecular interactions associated with this disease. RESULT:We have studied gene co...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chatterjee P,Roy D,Bhattacharyya M,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biologists need to perform complex queries, often across a variety of databases. Typically, each data resource provides an advanced query interface, each of which must be learnt by the biologist before they can begin to query them. Frequently, more than one data source is required and for high-throughput ana...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Smedley D,Haider S,Ballester B,Holland R,London D,Thorisson G,Kasprzyk A

更新日期：2009-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most important global pathogens infecting all age groups is Streptococcus pneumoniae (the 'pneumococcus'). Pneumococci reside in the paediatric nasopharynx, where they compete for space and resources, and one competition strategy is to produce a bacteriocin (antimicrobial peptide or protein) to at...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bogaardt C,van Tonder AJ,Brueggemann AB

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00