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... Invertase inhibitor (InvInh) represses acid invertase (AI) activity though interacting with AI at post-translation level, which plays important roles in vegetative and reproductive processes and stress responses of plant. Our previous studies revealed that CsAI genes were involved in regulating cold response of tea plant, while the post-translation regulation mechanism of AI and the roles of InvIn ...
... Takifugu genus has been brought to the fore in scientific and practical research due to its compact genome, explosive speciation progress and economic value. Here we updated the chromosome-level genome of Takifugu bimaculatus by an ultra-high-density linkage map, a classic and accurate way of chromosome assembly. The map constituted a robust assembly frame, with 92.2% (372.77 Mb) of the draft geno ...
Botrytis cinerea; Rosa chinensis; chromosomes; gene duplication; gene expression; genes; genome-wide association study; gray mold; ornamental plants; phylogeny; plant pathogens
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... Rose is an important ornamental plant and a commercial source of natural fragrances and essential oils. However, gray mold is the most serious disease of rose during cultivation and post-harvest. In plants, the bZIP gene family is one of the important families of transcription factors that regulate many biological processes, including pathogen defense, light response, and stress signaling. Althoug ...
... Fish cell lines are important tools in many biological studies. Here, we established a new Japanese flounder brain (JFB) cell line from the brain tissue of the Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), which was successfully sub-cultured for over 120 passages, and consisted predominantly of fibroblast-like cells. Sequencing of the actin gene confirmed that JFB cells were derived from the Japanes ...
Thania Medrano-Mendoza; Baltasar F. García; Alejandra Caballero-Zamora; José M. Yáñez; Leobardo Montoya-Rodríguez; Juan C. Quintana-Casares; Marina Durán-Aguilar; Gabriel R. Campos-Montes
DNA-directed RNA polymerase; Litopenaeus vannamei; White spot syndrome virus; aquaculture; arylsulfatase; chromosomes; death; genetic variance; genetic variation; genome-wide association study; genotyping; hepatopancreas; humoral immunity; immune response; linkage disequilibrium; marker-assisted selection; necrotizing hepatopancreatitis; oxidoreductases; population structure; principal component analysis; quality control; Ecuador; Panama
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... The objectives of this research were to assess the genetic diversity, population structure, linkage disequilibrium and perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to search for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that associate with the resistance of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) to White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV). The line here analyzed was formerly founded with animals origi ...
... RNA editing is a post-transcriptional modification process, the chloroplast genes of which are involved in the process of chloroplast development in plant. However, the RNA editing sites of chloroplast genes remains unknown. In this study, we identified 39 RNA editing sites in 18 chloroplast genes from chloroplast genome of C. sinensis. Furthermore, the feature, structures and specificity of RNA e ...
DNA repair; Ensifer adhaerens; arsenic; chromium; chromosomes; genome; genomics; gold; metal tolerance; oxidation; plasmids; remediation
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... This study reports the simultaneous oxidation of As(III) and reduction of the Cr(VI) strain Ensifer adhaerens M8 screened from soils around abandoned gold tailings contaminated with highly complex metals (loids). Physiological, biochemical, and genomic techniques were used to explore the mechanism. The strain M8 could simultaneously oxidize 1 mM As(III) and reduce 45.3 % 0.1 mM Cr(VI) in 16 h, and ...
... 2-Mercaptoethanol (2-ME) is often used as an antioxidant to optimize culture systems for in vitro oocyte maturation in livestock. However, the relationship between 2-ME and autophagy has not yet been elucidated. In this study, we hypothesized that 2-ME can promote porcine oocyte maturation in vitro by maintaining autophagy homeostasis. To test this hypothesis, we explored the effects of 2-ME on th ...
Gossypium hirsutum; chromosome mapping; chromosomes; cotton; fiber quality; genome; normal distribution; principal component analysis; research institutions; single nucleotide polymorphism arrays
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... The recombinant inbred lines of inter-specific cross, Gossypium hirsutum cv. DS-28 × G. barbadense cv. SBYF-425 was evaluated in three consecutive rainy seasons of 2017–18 (F₁₃), 2018–19 (F₁₄) and 2019–20 (F₁₅) in an augmented design. The preponderance of huge continuous variability for both productivity and fiber quality traits was recorded. The principal component analysis revealed that the mapp ...
... KEY MESSAGE : In this study, we present AAQSP as an extension of existing NGS-BSA applications for identifying stable QTLs at high resolution. GhPAP16 and GhIQD14 fine mapped on chromosome D09 of upland cotton are identified as important candidate genes for lint percentage (LP). Bulked segregant analysis combined with next generation sequencing (NGS-BSA) allows rapid identification of genome seque ...
... Diabetes mellitus (DM), a familiar disease, is characterized by high blood glucose levels owing to insulin deficiency. Researches have suggested that the incidence rate of diabetes is increasing and it has become an important global epidemic. The type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is featured with pancreatic β-cell loss and lack of insulin release. Nevertheless, the therapeutic methods that was helpf ...
... The pigment and structural color of insects play crucial roles in body protection, ecological adaptation, and signal communication. Epidermal melanization is a common and main coloring pattern, which results in broad phenotypic diversity. Melanin is one of the compounds contributing to dark brown-black pigmentation, which is synthesized from dopamine and tyrosine by the melanin metabolism pathway. ...
... Amitosis is widespread among eukaryotes, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. The polyploid macronucleus (MAC) of unicellular ciliates divides by amitosis, making ciliates a potentially valuable model system to study this process. However, a method to accurately quantify the copy number of MAC chromosomes has not yet been established. Here, we used droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) to qu ...
blood glucose; chromosomes; heat production; high fat diet; male fertility; males; metabolism; obesity; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; sequence analysis; spermatogenesis; testes; thermic effect of food; transcription (genetics)
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... High-fat diet (HFD) induced obesity (DIO) has been shown impacts on metabolism, hormonal profile, male fertility, and spermatogenesis. We employed genome-wide transcriptional analysis on the testis of diet induced obesity (DIO) and normal chow (NC) C57BL/6 J male mice to search genes regulated by obesity in testis. Both blood glucose and lipids contents significantly increased in DIO mice after 8 ...
... Hybridization and polyploidization are pivotal to plant evolution. Genetic crosses between distantly related species are rare in nature due to reproductive barriers but how such hurdles can be overcome is largely unknown. Here we report the hybrid genome structure of xBrassicoraphanus, a synthetic allotetraploid of Brassica rapa and Raphanus sativus. We performed cytogenetic analysis and de novo g ...
... The winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) line CI13227 has been characterized as having adult plant resistance to leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks (Pt). Line CI13227 was crossed with the susceptible spring wheat ‘Thatcher’ (Tc) and a Tc*2/CI13227 F₆ line with adult plant leaf rust resistance designated as 411A was derived. Line 411A was crossed with Tc to develop an F₆ recombinant inbred ...
... Currently, genome analysis has become a routine component of molecular breeding of major crops. Today’s commercial sugarcane hybrids are the products of breeding over one hundred years with the starting clones produced by crossing two founding species (Saccharum officinarum and S. spontaneum) in India and Indonesia. Current sugarcane varieties have a highly complex and large genome with 100–130 ch ...
... The banana is a staple food crop and represents an important trade commodity for millions of people living in tropical and subtropical countries. The most important edible banana clones originated from natural crosses between diploid Musa balbisiana and various subspecies of M. acuminata. It is worth mentioning that evolution and speciation in the Musaceae family were accompanied by large-scale ch ...
... The wheat Green Revolution Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b dwarfing alleles are associated with increased grain yields but also with reduced early growth and seedling emergence, especially if sowing conditions are unfavourable. The gibberellic acid-responsive, mutagen-derived Rht18 dwarfing gene was backcrossed from durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum L.) cv. Icaro into tall bread wheat (Triticum aest ...
... In the Brassica genus, we find both diploid species (one genome) and allotetraploid species (two different genomes) but no naturally occurring hexaploid species (three different genomes, AABBCC). Although hexaploids can be produced via human intervention, these neo-polyploids have quite unstable genomes and usually suffer from severe genome reshuffling. Whether these genome rearrangements continue ...