abstract：BACKGROUND:Drosophila melanogaster females show changes in behavior and physiology after mating that are thought to maximize the number of progeny resulting from the most recent copulation. Sperm and seminal fluid proteins induce post-mating changes in females, however, very little is known about the resulting gene exp...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dalton JE,Kacheria TS,Knott SR,Lebo MS,Nishitani A,Sanders LE,Stirling EJ,Winbush A,Arbeitman MN

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:miRNAs are small, non-coding RNA molecules that mainly act as negative regulators of target gene messages. Due to their regulatory functions, they have lately been implicated in several diseases, including malignancies. Roughly half of known miRNA genes are located within previously annotated protein-coding ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hinske LC,Galante PA,Kuo WP,Ohno-Machado L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate identification of synteny blocks is an important step in comparative genomics towards the understanding of genome architecture and expression. Most computer programs developed in the last decade for identifying synteny blocks have limitations. To address these limitations, we recently developed a ro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Vergara IA,Chen N

更新日期：2010-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial phenotype may be profoundly affected by the physical arrangement of their genes in the genome. The Gram-negative species Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a major etiologic agent of human periodontitis. Individual clonal types of A. actinomycetemcomitans may exhibit variable virulence and di...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kittichotirat W,Bumgarner R,Chen C

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an ecological disorder of the vaginal microbiota that affects millions of women annually, and is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes including pre-term birth and the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections. However, little is known about the overall structure a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ling Z,Kong J,Liu F,Zhu H,Chen X,Wang Y,Li L,Nelson KE,Xia Y,Xiang C

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationships between parasitoids and their insect hosts have attracted attention at two levels. First, the basic biology of host-parasitoid interactions is of fundamental interest. Second, parasitoids are widely used as biological control agents in sustainable agricultural programs. Females of the grega...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fang Q,Wang L,Zhu J,Li Y,Song Q,Stanley DW,Akhtar ZR,Ye G

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calcium ion is tightly regulated in body fluids and for euryhaline fish, which are exposed to rapid changes in environmental [Ca2+], homeostasis is especially challenging. The gill is the main organ of active calcium uptake and therefore plays a crucial role in the maintenance of calcium ion homeostasis. To ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pinto PI,Matsumura H,Thorne MA,Power DM,Terauchi R,Reinhardt R,Canário AV

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) can be used as genetic markers for applications such as genetic diversity studies or genetic mapping. New technologies now allow genotyping hundreds to thousands of SNPs in a single reaction.In order to evaluate the potential of these technologies in pea, we selected a ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deulvot C,Charrel H,Marty A,Jacquin F,Donnadieu C,Lejeune-Hénaut I,Burstin J,Aubert G

更新日期：2010-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advance of new massively parallel genotyping technologies, quantitative trait loci (QTL) fine mapping and map-based cloning become more achievable in identifying genes for important and complex traits. Development of high-density genetic markers in the QTL regions of specific mapping populations is ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wu X,Ren C,Joshi T,Vuong T,Xu D,Nguyen HT

更新日期：2010-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systems biology and functional genomics require genome-wide datasets and resources. Complete sets of cloned open reading frames (ORFs) have been made for about a dozen bacterial species and allow researchers to express and study complete proteomes in a high-throughput fashion. RESULTS:We have constructed an...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rajagopala SV,Yamamoto N,Zweifel AE,Nakamichi T,Huang HK,Mendez-Rios JD,Franca-Koh J,Boorgula MP,Fujita K,Suzuki K,Hu JC,Wanner BL,Mori H,Uetz P

更新日期：2010-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, oil-rich plants are the main source of biodiesel products. Because concerns have been voiced about the impact of oil-crop cultivation on the price of food commodities, the interest in oil plants not used for food production and amenable to cultivation on non-agricultural land has soared. As a non-fo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Costa GG,Cardoso KC,Del Bem LE,Lima AC,Cunha MA,de Campos-Leite L,Vicentini R,Papes F,Moreira RC,Yunes JA,Campos FA,Da Silva MJ

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial genomes possess varying GC content (total guanines (Gs) and cytosines (Cs) per total of the four bases within the genome) but within a given genome, GC content can vary locally along the chromosome, with some regions significantly more or less GC rich than on average. We have examined how the GC co...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bohlin J,Snipen L,Hardy SP,Kristoffersen AB,Lagesen K,Dønsvik T,Skjerve E,Ussery DW

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shotgun sequencing of environmental DNA is an essential technique for characterizing uncultivated microbes in situ. However, the taxonomic and functional assignment of the obtained sequence fragments remains a pressing problem. RESULTS:Existing algorithms are largely optimized for speed and coverage; in con...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Stark M,Berger SA,Stamatakis A,von Mering C

更新日期：2010-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 is strongly associated with the development of reactive arthritis (ReA) in humans after salmonellosis. Human monocytic U937 cells transfected with HLA-B27 are less able to eliminate intracellular Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis than those transfected with control HLA...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ge S,Danino V,He Q,Hinton JC,Granfors K

更新日期：2010-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus harbour three replication origins in their single circular chromosome that are synchronously initiated during replication. RESULTS:We demonstrate that global gene expression in two Sulfolobus species is highly biased, such that early replicating genome regions are more...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Andersson AF,Pelve EA,Lindeberg S,Lundgren M,Nilsson P,Bernander R

更新日期：2010-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lychas mucronatus is one scorpion species widely distributed in Southeast Asia and southern China. Anything is hardly known about its venom components, despite the fact that it can often cause human accidents. In this work, we performed a venomous gland transcriptome analysis by constructing and screening th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ruiming Z,Yibao M,Yawen H,Zhiyong D,Yingliang W,Zhijian C,Wenxin L

更新日期：2010-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brown and white adipose tissues (BAT and WAT) play critical roles in controlling energy homeostasis and in the development of obesity and diabetes. The mouse Fat-Specific protein 27 (FSP27), a member of the cell death-inducing DFF45-like effector (CIDE) family, is expressed in both BAT and WAT and is associa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li D,Zhang Y,Xu L,Zhou L,Wang Y,Xue B,Wen Z,Li P,Sang J

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intragenic tandem repeats occur throughout all domains of life and impart functional and structural variability to diverse translation products. Repeat proteins confer distinctive surface phenotypes to many unicellular organisms, including those with minimal genomes such as the wall-less bacterial monoderms,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Röske K,Foecking MF,Yooseph S,Glass JI,Calcutt MJ,Wise KS

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective bioinformatics solutions are needed to tackle challenges posed by industrial-scale genome annotation. We present Bcheck, a wrapper tool which predicts RNase P RNA genes by combining the speed of pattern matching and sensitivity of covariance models. The core of Bcheck is a library of subfamily spec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yusuf D,Marz M,Stadler PF,Hofacker IL

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) are widely-used as experimental animals in biomedical research and are closely related to other laboratory macaques, such as cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis), and to humans, sharing a last common ancestor from about 25 million years ago. Although rhesus monkeys have be...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim DS,Huh JW,Kim YH,Park SJ,Lee SR,Chang KT

更新日期：2010-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are tandemly repeated sequence motifs common in genomic nucleotide sequence that often harbor significant variation in repeat number. Frequently used as molecular markers, SSRs are increasingly identified via in silico approaches. Two common classes of genomic resources that ca...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ellison CK,Shaw KL

更新日期：2010-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:About 10% of cases of male infertility are due to the presence of microdeletions within the long arm of the Y chromosome (Yq). Despite the large literature covering this critical issue, very little is known about the pathogenic mechanism leading to spermatogenesis disruption in patients carrying these microd...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gatta V,Raicu F,Ferlin A,Antonucci I,Scioletti AP,Garolla A,Palka G,Foresta C,Stuppia L

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genomewide evaluation of genetic epistasis is a computationally demanding task, and a current challenge in Genetics. HFCC (Hypothesis-Free Clinical Cloning) is one of the methods that have been suggested for genomewide epistasis analysis. In order to perform an exhaustive search of epistasis, HFCC has im...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gayán J,González-Pérez A,Ruiz A

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Digital gene expression profiling was used to characterize the assembly of genes expressed in equine skeletal muscle and to identify the subset of genes that were differentially expressed following a ten-month period of exercise training. The study cohort comprised seven Thoroughbred racehorses from a single...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McGivney BA,McGettigan PA,Browne JA,Evans AC,Fonseca RG,Loftus BJ,Lohan A,MacHugh DE,Murphy BA,Katz LM,Hill EW

更新日期：2010-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two fifths of the world's population is at risk from dengue. The absence of effective drugs and vaccines leaves vector control as the primary intervention tool. Understanding dengue virus (DENV) host interactions is essential for the development of novel control strategies. The availability of genome sequenc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo X,Xu Y,Bian G,Pike AD,Xie Y,Xi Z

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme HR6B is required for spermatogenesis in mouse. Loss of HR6B results in aberrant histone modification patterns on the trancriptionally silenced X and Y chromosomes (XY body) and on centromeric chromatin in meiotic prophase. We studied the relationship between these chromatin m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mulugeta Achame E,Wassenaar E,Hoogerbrugge JW,Sleddens-Linkels E,Ooms M,Sun ZW,van IJcken WF,Grootegoed JA,Baarends WM

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species of the family Vibrionaceae are ubiquitous in marine environments. Several of these species are important pathogens of humans and marine species. Evidence indicates that genetic exchange plays an important role in the emergence of new pathogenic strains within this family. Data from the sequenced geno...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lilburn TG,Gu J,Cai H,Wang Y

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal cord injury leads to neurological dysfunctions affecting the motor, sensory as well as the autonomic systems. Increased excitability of motor neurons has been implicated in injury-induced spasticity, where the reappearance of self-sustained plateau potentials in the absence of modulatory inputs from t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ryge J,Winther O,Wienecke J,Sandelin A,Westerdahl AC,Hultborn H,Kiehn O

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequencing of the approximately 1.7 billion bases of the zebrafish genome is currently underway. To date, few high resolution genetic maps exist for the zebrafish genome, based mainly on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and short microsatellite repeats. The desire to construct a higher resolution genet...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rouchka EC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linkage disequilibrium (LD) plays a fundamental role in population genetics and in the current surge of studies to screen for subtle genetic variants affecting complex traits. Methods widely implemented in LD analyses require samples to be randomly collected, which, however, are usually ignored and thus rais...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang M,Jia T,Jiang N,Wang L,Hu X,Luo Z

更新日期：2010-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neonatal bovine mammary fat pad (MFP) surrounding the mammary parenchyma (PAR) is thought to exert proliferative effects on the PAR through secretion of local modulators of growth induced by systemic hormones. We used bioinformatics to characterize transcriptomics differences between PAR and MFP from app...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Piantoni P,Bionaz M,Graugnard DE,Daniels KM,Everts RE,Rodriguez-Zas SL,Lewin HA,Hurley HL,Akers M,Loor JJ

更新日期：2010-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic admixture is a common caveat for genetic association analysis. Therefore, it is important to characterize the genetic structure of the population under study to control for this kind of potential bias. RESULTS:In this study we have sampled over 800 unrelated individuals from the population of Spain,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gayán J,Galan JJ,González-Pérez A,Sáez ME,Martínez-Larrad MT,Zabena C,Rivero MC,Salinas A,Ramírez-Lorca R,Morón FJ,Royo JL,Moreno-Rey C,Velasco J,Carrasco JM,Molero E,Ochoa C,Ochoa MD,Gutiérrez M,Reina M,Pascual R,

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the key characters of social insects is the division of labor, in which different tasks are allocated to various castes. In termites, one of the representative groups of social insects, morphological differences as well as behavioral differences can be recognized among castes. However, very little is ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ishikawa Y,Okada Y,Ishikawa A,Miyakawa H,Koshikawa S,Miura T

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the genome sequence-specific positioning of nucleosomes is essential to understand various cellular processes, such as transcriptional regulation and replication. As a typical example, the 10-bp periodicity of AA/TT and GC dinucleotides has been reported in several species, but it is still uncl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tanaka Y,Yamashita R,Suzuki Y,Nakai K

更新日期：2010-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Designing sustainable animal production systems that better balance productivity and resistance to disease is a major concern. In order to address questions related to immunity and resistance to disease in pig, it is necessary to increase knowledge on its immune system and to produce efficient tools dedicate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gao Y,Flori L,Lecardonnel J,Esquerré D,Hu ZL,Teillaud A,Lemonnier G,Lefèvre F,Oswald IP,Rogel-Gaillard C

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity and phenotypic traits associated with this condition exhibit significant heritability in natural populations of most organisms. While a number of genes and genetic pathways have been implicated to play a role in obesity associated traits, the genetic architecture that underlies the natural variation ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jumbo-Lucioni P,Ayroles JF,Chambers MM,Jordan KW,Leips J,Mackay TF,De Luca M

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CCCH type zinc finger proteins are RNA binding proteins with regulatory functions at all stages of mRNA metabolism. The best-characterized member, tritetraproline (TTP), binds to AU rich elements in 3' UTRs of unstable mRNAs, mediating their degradation. In kinetoplastids, CCCH type zinc finger proteins have...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kramer S,Kimblin NC,Carrington M

更新日期：2010-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The disease caused by Haemonchus contortus, a blood-feeding nematode of small ruminants, is of major economic importance worldwide. The infective third-stage larva (L3) of this gastric nematode is enclosed in a cuticle (sheath) and, once ingested with herbage by the host, undergoes an exsheathment process th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cantacessi C,Campbell BE,Young ND,Jex AR,Hall RS,Presidente PJ,Zawadzki JL,Zhong W,Aleman-Meza B,Loukas A,Sternberg PW,Gasser RB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) has become an increasingly important crop for its leading role in biofuel production. The high sugar content species S. officinarum is an octoploid without known diploid or tetraploid progenitors. Commercial sugarcane cultivars are hybrids between S. officinarum and wild species S....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang J,Roe B,Macmil S,Yu Q,Murray JE,Tang H,Chen C,Najar F,Wiley G,Bowers J,Van Sluys MA,Rokhsar DS,Hudson ME,Moose SP,Paterson AH,Ming R

更新日期：2010-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudogenes are ubiquitous genetic elements that derive from functional genes after mutational inactivation. Characterization of pseudogenes is important to understand genome dynamics and evolution, and its significance increases when several genomes of related organisms can be compared. Among yeasts, only t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lafontaine I,Dujon B

更新日期：2010-04-22 00:00:00