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BMC Biology - the flagship biology journal of the BMC series - publishes research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest in any area of biology and biomedical sciences. BMC Biology (ISSN 1741-7007) is covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :73
A major genome-wide transposon mutagenesis screen in the red flour beetle sets the scene for future genetic analyses in this increasingly important model organism, and the same screening procedure can be potentially applied to other insects.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :72
High-throughput parallel tag sequencing combined with a novel bioinformatic pipeline detects a rich diversity of protists in two contrasting anoxic marine environments, finding many taxon groups missed by previous clone-based surveys.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :71
Specific cuticular hydrocarbons isolated from Argentine ants have been synthesised in pure form and shown to act as colony recognition cues, capable of triggering aggression in this supercolony-forming invasive species.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :70
Genetic pathways involving appetite, satiety and reward affect alcohol consumption in rats and humans, specifically GABAergic and dopaminergic signaling, but genes in these pathways are not linked to alcohol dependence or abuse in people.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :69
The pH at which proteins are predicted to be most stable relates to the location of their histidine residues, and the average for all proteins in a subcellular compartment correlates closely with local pH.
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Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps Jochen Trauner, Johannes Schinko, Marce D Lorenzen, Teresa D Shippy, Ernst A Wimmer, Richard W Beeman, Martin Klingler, Gregor Bucher, Susan J Brown BMC Biology 2009, 7 :73 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities Thorsten Stoeck, Anke Behnke, Richard Christen, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Maria J Rodriguez-Mora, Andrei Chistoserdov, William Orsi, Virginia P Edgcomb BMC Biology 2009, 7 :72 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues Miriam Brandt, Ellen van Wilgenburg, Robert Sulc, Kenneth J Shea, Neil D Tsutsui BMC Biology 2009, 7 :71 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genetical genomic determinants of alcohol consumption in rats and humans Boris Tabakoff, Laura Saba, Morton Printz, Pam Flodman, Colin Hodgkinson, David Goldman, George Koob, Heather N Richardson, Katerina Kechris, Richard L Bell, Norbert Hubner, Matthias Heinig, Michal Pravenec, Jonathan Mangion, Lucie Legault, Maurice Dongier, Katherine M Conigrave, John B Whitfield, John Saunders, Bridget Grant, Paula L Hoffman, WHO/ISBRA Study on State and Trait Markers of Alcoholism BMC Biology 2009, 7 :70 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evidence for the adaptation of protein pH-dependence to subcellular pH Pedro Chan, Jim Warwicker BMC Biology 2009, 7 :69 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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TonB-dependent transporters and their occurrence in cyanobacteria Oliver Mirus, Sascha Strauss, Kerstin Nicolaisen, Arndt von Haeseler, Enrico Schleiff BMC Biology 2009, 7 :68 (12 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Retinoic acid enhances skeletal muscle progenitor formation and bypasses inhibition by bone morphogenetic protein 4 but not dominant negative Karen AM Kennedy, Tammy Porter, Virja Mehta, Scott D Ryan, Feodor Price, Vian Peshdary, Christina Karamboulas, Jos BMC Biology 2009, 7 :67 (8 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Recombination and insertion events involving the botulinum neurotoxin complex genes in Clostridium botulinum types A, B, E and F and Clostridium butyricum type E strains Karen K Hill, Gary Xie, Brian T Foley, Theresa J Smith, Amy C Munk, David Bruce, Leonard A Smith, Thomas S Brettin, John C Detter BMC Biology 2009, 7 :66 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Coordinated spatial and temporal expression of Hox genes during embryogenesis in the acoel Convolutriloba longifissura Andreas Hejnol, Mark Q Martindale BMC Biology 2009, 7 :65 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Dual control by a single gene of secondary sexual characters and mating preferences in medaka Shoji Fukamachi, Masato Kinoshita, Kouichi Aizawa, Shoji Oda, Axel Meyer, Hiroshi Mitani BMC Biology 2009, 7 :64 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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