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  1. The G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) belong to the largest superfamily of integral cell membrane proteins and play crucial roles in physiological processes including behavior, development and reproduction. ...

    Authors: Hua Bai, Fang Zhu, Kapil Shah and Subba Reddy Palli
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:388
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  2. In rice, the major part of the post-embryonic root system is made of stem-derived roots named crown roots (CR). Among the few characterized rice mutants affected in root development, crown rootless1 mutant is una...

    Authors: Yoan Coudert, Martine Bès, Thi Van Anh Le, Martial Pré, Emmanuel Guiderdoni and Pascal Gantet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:387
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  3. The Apiaceae family includes several vegetable and spice crop species among which carrot is the most economically important member, with ~21 million tons produced yearly worldwide. Despite its importance, mole...

    Authors: Pablo F Cavagnaro, Sang-Min Chung, Sylvie Manin, Mehtap Yildiz, Aamir Ali, Maria S Alessandro, Massimo Iorizzo, Douglas A Senalik and Philipp W Simon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:386
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  4. Sigma-54 is a central regulator in many pathogenic bacteria and has been linked to a multitude of cellular processes like nitrogen assimilation and important functional traits such as motility, virulence, and ...

    Authors: Christof Francke, Tom Groot Kormelink, Yanick Hagemeijer, Lex Overmars, Vincent Sluijter, Roy Moezelaar and Roland J Siezen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:385
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  5. Fluctuations in temperature occur naturally during plant growth and reproduction. However, in the hot summers this variation may become stressful and damaging for the molecular mechanisms involved in proper ce...

    Authors: Craita E Bita, Sara Zenoni, Wim H Vriezen, Celestina Mariani, Mario Pezzotti and Tom Gerats
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:384
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  6. Corynebacterium ulcerans has been detected as a commensal in domestic and wild animals that may serve as reservoirs for zoonotic infections. During the last decade, the frequency and severity of human infections ...

    Authors: Eva Trost, Arwa Al-Dilaimi, Panagiotis Papavasiliou, Jessica Schneider, Prisca Viehoever, Andreas Burkovski, Siomar C Soares, Sintia S Almeida, Fernanda A Dorella, Anderson Miyoshi, Vasco Azevedo, Maria P Schneider, Artur Silva, Cíntia S Santos, Louisy S Santos, Priscila Sabbadini…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:383
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  8. The R locus controls the color of pigmented soybean (Glycine max) seeds. However information about its control over seed coat biochemistry and gene expressions remains limited. The seed coats of nearly-isogenic b...

    Authors: Nik Kovinich, Ammar Saleem, John T Arnason and Brian Miki
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:381
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  9. Triticale is adapted to a wide range of abiotic stress conditions, is an important high-quality feed stock and produces similar grain yield but more biomass compared to other crops. Modern genomic approaches a...

    Authors: Katharina V Alheit, Jochen C Reif, Hans Peter Maurer, Volker Hahn, Elmar A Weissmann, Thomas Miedaner and Tobias Würschum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:380
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  10. BAC-based physical maps provide for sequencing across an entire genome or a selected sub-genomic region of biological interest. Such a region can be approached with next-generation whole-genome sequencing and ...

    Authors: Frank A Feltus, Christopher A Saski, Keithanne Mockaitis, Niina Haiminen, Laxmi Parida, Zachary Smith, James Ford, Margaret E Staton, Stephen P Ficklin, Barbara P Blackmon, Chun-Huai Cheng, Raymond J Schnell, David N Kuhn and Juan-Carlos Motamayor
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:379
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  11. Newly microarray technologies yield large-scale datasets. The microarray datasets are usually presented in 2D matrices, where rows represent genes and columns represent experimental conditions. Systematic anal...

    Authors: Junwan Liu, Zhoujun Li, Xiaohua Hu, Yiming Chen and EK Park
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S11
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  12. CpG islands are important regions in DNA. They usually appear at the 5’ end of genes containing GC-rich dinucleotides. When DNA methylation occurs, gene regulation is affected and it sometimes leads to carcino...

    Authors: Leah Spontaneo and Nick Cercone
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S10
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  13. Detecting epistatic interactions plays a significant role in improving pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of complex human diseases. A recent study in automatic detection of epistatic interactio...

    Authors: Bing Han and Xue-wen Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S9
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  14. Metagenomic assembly is a challenging problem due to the presence of genetic material from multiple organisms. The problem becomes even more difficult when short reads produced by next generation sequencing te...

    Authors: Anveshi Charuvaka and Huzefa Rangwala
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S8
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  15. Genomic read alignment involves mapping (exactly or approximately) short reads from a particular individual onto a pre-sequenced reference genome of the same species. Because all individuals of the same specie...

    Authors: M Oğuzhan Külekci, Wing-Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Jeffrey Scott Vitter and Bojian Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  16. There is a large amount of inconsistency in gene structure annotations of bacterial strains. This inconsistency is a frustrating impedance to effective comparative genomic analysis of bacterial strains in prom...

    Authors: Michal Wozniak, Limsoon Wong and Jerzy Tiuryn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S6
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  17. Analysing gene expression data from microarray technologies is a very important task in biology and medicine, and particularly in cancer diagnosis. Different from most other popular methods in high dimensional...

    Authors: Zhenyu Wang and Vasile Palade
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  18. A major goal of metagenomics is to characterize the microbial composition of an environment. The most popular approach relies on 16S rRNA sequencing, however this approach can generate biased estimates due to ...

    Authors: Bo Liu, Theodore Gibbons, Mohammad Ghodsi, Todd Treangen and Mihai Pop
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  19. Reassortments are events in the evolution of the genome of influenza (flu), whereby segments of the genome are exchanged between different strains. As reassortments have been implicated in major human pandemic...

    Authors: Alisa Yurovsky and Bernard M E Moret
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  20. Proximity-based methods and co-evolution-based phylogenetic profiles methods have been successfully used for the identification of functionally related genes. Proximity-based methods are effective for physical...

    Authors: Vikas Rao Pejaver and Sun Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  21. Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) can be classified into major lineages based on their genotype. Further subdivision of major lineages into sublineages requires multiple biomarkers along with m...

    Authors: Cagri Ozcaglar, Amina Shabbeer, Scott Vandenberg, Bülent Yener and Kristin P Bennett
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12(Suppl 2):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 2

  22. KRAB-ZFPs (Krüppel-associated box domain-zinc finger proteins) are vertebrate-restricted transcriptional repressors encoded in the hundreds by the mouse and human genomes. They act via an essential cofactor, K...

    Authors: Sylvain Meylan, Anna C Groner, Giovanna Ambrosini, Nirav Malani, Simon Quenneville, Nadine Zangger, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Annamaria Kauzlaric, Jacques Rougemont, Angela Ciuffi, Frederic D Bushman, Philipp Bucher and Didier Trono
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:378
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  23. In standard BLAST searches, no information other than the sequences of the query and the database entries is considered. However, in situations where two genes from different species have only borderline simil...

    Authors: Seán S ÓhÉigeartaigh, David Armisén, Kevin P Byrne and Kenneth H Wolfe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:377
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  24. The genus Silene is widely used as a model system for addressing ecological and evolutionary questions in plants, but advances in using the genus as a model system are impeded by the lack of available resources f...

    Authors: Nicolas Blavet, Delphine Charif, Christine Oger-Desfeux, Gabriel AB Marais and Alex Widmer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:376
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  25. Recent studies have demonstrated the genetic significance of insertions, deletions, and other more complex structural variants (SVs) in the human population. With the development of the next-generation sequenc...

    Authors: Zhengdong D Zhang, Jiang Du, Hugo Lam, Alex Abyzov, Alexander E Urban, Michael Snyder and Mark Gerstein
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:375
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  27. Burkholderia cenocepacia is a member of the Burkholderia cepacia complex group of bacteria that cause infections in individuals with cystic fibrosis. B. cenocepacia isolate J2315 has been genome sequenced and is ...

    Authors: Andrea Sass, Angela Marchbank, Elizabeth Tullis, John J LiPuma and Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:373
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  28. Copy number variations (CNVs) can create new genes, change gene dosage, reshape gene structures, and modify elements regulating gene expression. As with all types of genetic variation, CNVs may influence pheno...

    Authors: Ping Yu, Caihong Wang, Qun Xu, Yue Feng, Xiaoping Yuan, Hanyong Yu, Yiping Wang, Shengxiang Tang and Xinghua Wei
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:372
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  30. Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) is one of the most widely distributed and ecologically important shrub species in western North America. This species serves as a critical habitat and food resource for many a...

    Authors: Prabin Bajgain, Bryce A Richardson, Jared C Price, Richard C Cronn and Joshua A Udall
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:370
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  31. Switchgrass, a C4 species and a warm-season grass native to the prairies of North America, has been targeted for development into an herbaceous biomass fuel crop. Genetic improvement of switchgrass feedstock t...

    Authors: Christopher A Saski, Zhigang Li, Frank A Feltus and Hong Luo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:369
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  32. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant source of genetic variation among individuals of a species. New genotyping technologies allow examining hundreds to thousands of SNPs in a single re...

    Authors: Emilie Chancerel, Camille Lepoittevin, Grégoire Le Provost, Yao-Cheng Lin, Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Correa, Andrew J Eckert, Jill L Wegrzyn, Diana Zelenika, Anne Boland, Jean-Marc Frigerio, Philippe Chaumeil, Pauline Garnier-Géré, Christophe Boury, Delphine Grivet, Santiago C González-Martínez, Pierre Rouzé…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:368
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  33. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, endogenous RNAs that play important regulatory roles in development and stress response in plants by negatively affecting gene expression post-transcriptionally. Identification of...

    Authors: Tianzuo Wang, Lei Chen, Mingui Zhao, Qiuying Tian and Wen-Hao Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:367
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  34. Pinus pinaster is an economically and ecologically important species that is becoming a woody gymnosperm model. Its enormous genome size makes whole-genome sequencing approaches are hard to apply. Therefore, the ...

    Authors: Noé Fernández-Pozo, Javier Canales, Darío Guerrero-Fernández, David P Villalobos, Sara M Díaz-Moreno, Rocío Bautista, Arantxa Flores-Monterroso, M Ángeles Guevara, Pedro Perdiguero, Carmen Collada, M Teresa Cervera, Álvaro Soto, Ricardo Ordás, Francisco R Cantón, Concepción Avila, Francisco M Cánovas…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:366
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  35. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor (TF) that mediates responses to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Integration of TCDD-induced genome-wide AhR enrichment, d...

    Authors: Edward Dere, Raymond Lo, Trine Celius, Jason Matthews and Timothy R Zacharewski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:365
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  36. Understanding animal development and physiology at a molecular-biological level has been advanced by the ability to determine at high resolution the repertoire of mRNA molecules by whole transcriptome resequen...

    Authors: Peter L Chang, Joseph P Dunham, Sergey V Nuzhdin and Michelle N Arbeitman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:364
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  37. Amaranthus hypochondriacus, a grain amaranth, is a C4 plant noted by its ability to tolerate stressful conditions and produce highly nutritious seeds. These possess an optimal amino acid balance and constitute a ...

    Authors: John P Délano-Frier, Hamlet Avilés-Arnaut, Kena Casarrubias-Castillo, Gabriela Casique-Arroyo, Paula A Castrillón-Arbeláez, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Julio Massange-Sánchez, Norma A Martínez-Gallardo, Fannie I Parra-Cota, Erandi Vargas-Ortiz and María G Estrada-Hernández
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:363
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  38. Boar taint is observed in a high proportion of uncastrated male pigs and is characterized by an unpleasant odor/flavor in cooked meat, primarily caused by elevated levels of androstenone and skatole. Androsten...

    Authors: Eli Grindflek, Sigbjørn Lien, Hanne Hamland, Marianne HS Hansen, Matthew Kent, Maren van Son and Theo HE Meuwissen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:362
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  39. Shine-Dalgarno (SD) signal has long been viewed as the dominant translation initiation signal in prokaryotes. Recently, leaderless genes, which lack 5'-untranslated regions (5'-UTR) on their mRNAs, have been s...

    Authors: Xiaobin Zheng, Gang-Qing Hu, Zhen-Su She and Huaiqiu Zhu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:361
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  40. Orchids are one of the most diversified angiosperms, but few genomic resources are available for these non-model plants. In addition to the ecological significance, Phalaenopsis has been considered as an economic...

    Authors: Yu-Yun Hsiao, Yun-Wen Chen, Shi-Ching Huang, Zhao-Jun Pan, Chih-Hsiung Fu, Wen-Huei Chen, Wen-Chieh Tsai and Hong-Hwa Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:360
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  41. One of the major tasks of the post-genomic era is "reading" genomic sequences in order to extract all the biological information contained in them. Although a wide variety of techniques is used to solve the ge...

    Authors: Lian Zhou, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter, Yong-Qiang He, Bo-Le Jiang, Ji-Liang Tang, Yuquan Xu, Alfred Pühler and Ya-Wen He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:359
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  42. Database searching is the most frequently used approach for automated peptide assignment and protein inference of tandem mass spectra. The results, however, depend on the sequences in target databases and on s...

    Authors: Kung-Yen Chang and David C Muddiman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:358
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  43. The cell suicide pathway of apoptosis is a necessary event in the life of multicellular organisms. It is involved in many biological processes ranging from development to the immune response. Evolutionarily co...

    Authors: Juliette Courtiade, Yannick Pauchet, Heiko Vogel and David G Heckel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:357
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  45. Cellular senescence is an irreversible cell cycle arrest that normal cells undergo in response to progressive shortening of telomeres, changes in telomeric structure, oncogene activation or oxidative stress an...

    Authors: Emilie Rovillain, Louise Mansfield, Christopher J Lord, Alan Ashworth and Parmjit S Jat
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:355
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  46. Bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries continue to be invaluable tools for the genomic analysis of complex organisms. Complemented by the newly and fast growing deep sequencing technologies, they prov...

    Authors: Razvan Anistoroaei, Boudewijn ten Hallers, Michael Nefedov, Knud Christensen and Pieter de Jong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:354
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  47. Transcription factors in disease-relevant pathways represent potential drug targets, by impacting a distinct set of pathways that may be modulated through gene regulation. The influence of transcription factor...

    Authors: Geir K Sandve, Sveinung Gundersen, Halfdan Rydbeck, Ingrid K Glad, Lars Holden, Marit Holden, Knut Liestøl, Trevor Clancy, Finn Drabløs, Egil Ferkingstad, Morten Johansen, Vegard Nygaard, Eivind Tøstesen, Arnoldo Frigessi and Eivind Hovig
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:353
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  48. Eight diverse sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) accessions were subjected to short-read genome sequencing to characterize the distribution of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Two strategies were used for...

    Authors: James C Nelson, Shichen Wang, Yuye Wu, Xianran Li, Ginny Antony, Frank F White and Jianming Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:352
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  49. Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) have been widely used as transgenes in vertebrate model systems such as mice and zebrafish, for a variety of studies. BAC transgenesis has been a powerful tool to study ...

    Authors: Leighcraft A Shakes, Gembu Abe, Mugtaba A Eltayeb, Hope M Wolf, Koichi Kawakami and Pradeep K Chatterjee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:351
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  50. The gene content of a diverse group of 183 unique Escherichia coli and Shigella isolates was determined using the Affymetrix GeneChip®E. coli Genome 2.0 Array, originally designed for transcriptome analysis, as a...

    Authors: Scott A Jackson, Isha R Patel, Tammy Barnaba, Joseph E LeClerc and Thomas A Cebula
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:349
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