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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, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Biology 2009, 7 :79
Pigs reared indoors or in isolation have a less healthy gut microbiota than outdoor-reared pigs, and signs of immune activation in gut tissues, reinforcing human data associating childhood hygiene with inflammatory bowel disease.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :78
Despite a high level of lateral gene transfer, the phylogeny of Burkholderia pseudomallei is resolved by SNPs in orthologous shared regions, enabling a wider gene-based analysis to define two populations, ancestral Australian, and South East Asian, separated by the Wallace Line.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :77
A high throughput 3-D culture system succeeds in establishing glandular acini from a human mammary epithelial cell line, and demonstrates the importance of basal polarity-mediated signals and collagen IV in recapitulating apical polarity.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :76
Bacterial signal recognition particle receptor (FtsY) is almost exclusively membrane-bound in vivo and this localization is important for its role in cotranslational targeting, overturning previous indications that it functioned as a cytosolic protein.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :75
An approach to identifying the physiological targets of ubiquitin receptors and the biological circuits they regulate is validated by screening for genes whose overexpression slows the growth of yeast cells lacking the ubiquitin-binding proteins Rad23 and Dsk2
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Environmentally-acquired bacteria influence microbial diversity and natural innate immune responses at gut surfaces Imke E Mulder, Bettina Schmidt, Christopher R Stokes, Marie Lewis, Mick Bailey, Rustam I Aminov, James I Prosser, Bhupinder P Gill, John R Pluske, Claus-Dieter Mayer, Corran Musk, Denise Kelly BMC Biology 2009, 7 :79 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer Talima Pearson, Philip Giffard, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Raymond Auerbach, Heidie Hornstra, Apichai Tuanyok, Erin P Price, Mindy B Glass, Benjamin Leadem, James S Beckstrom-Sternberg, Gerard J Allan, Jeffrey T Foster, David M Wagner, Richard T Okinaka, Siew Hoon Sim, Ofori Pearson, Zaining Wu, Jean Chang, Rajinder Kaul, Alex R Hoffmaster, Thomas S Brettin, Richard A Robison, Mark Mayo, Jay E Gee, Patrick Tan, Bart J Currie, Paul Keim BMC Biology 2009, 7 :78 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Factors necessary to produce basoapical polarity in human glandular epithelium formed in conventional and high-throughput three-dimensional culture: example of the breast epithelium Cedric Plachot, Lesley S Chaboub, Hibret A Adissu, Lei Wang, Albert Urazaev, Jennifer Sturgis, Elikplimi K Asem, Sophie A Lelievre BMC Biology 2009, 7 :77 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Predominant membrane localization is an essential feature of the bacterial signal recognition particle receptor Miryana Mircheva, Diana Boy, Benjamin Weiche, Friederike Hucke, Peter Graumann, Hans-Georg Koch BMC Biology 2009, 7 :76 (13 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A genome-wide synthetic dosage lethality screen reveals multiple pathways that require the functioning of ubiquitin-binding proteins Rad23 and Dsk2 Chang Liu, Dewald van Dyk, Yue Li, Brenda Andrews, Hai Rao BMC Biology 2009, 7 :75 (12 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida) Robert C Vrijenhoek, Shannon B Johnson, Greg W Rouse BMC Biology 2009, 7 :74 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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, Marc BMC Biology 2009, 7 :73 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 ] [Full text ] [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 H BMC Biology 2009, 7 :70 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Oral high dose ascorbic acid treatment for one year in young CMT1A patients: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II trial Camiel Verhamme, Rob J de Haan, Marinus Vermeulen, Frank Baas, Marianne de Visser, Ivo N van Schaik BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :70 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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STAT1-dependent expression of energy metabolic pathways links tumour growth and radioresistance to the Warburg effect Sean P Pitroda, Bassam T Wakim, Ravi F Sood, Mara G Beveridge, Michael A Beckett, Dhara M MacDermed, Ralph R Weichselbaum, Nikolai N Khodarev BMC Medicine 2009, 7 :68 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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