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Q&A: What is regeneration, and why look to planarians for answers?
Alejandro
Sánchez Alvarado
BMC Biology 2012, 10 :88 (8 November 2012)
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Editor’s summary
What controls regeneration? Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado explores this old question in biology in a Q&A explaining what we understand from planarians - non-parasitic flatworms all of whose tissues can regenerate.
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Evolution of anterior Hox regulatory elements among chordates
Alfonso
Natale,
Carrie
Sims,
Maria
L
Chiusano,
Alessandro
Amoroso,
Enrico
D'Aniello,
Laura
Fucci,
Robb
Krumlauf,
Margherita
Branno,
Annamaria
Locascio
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11 :330 (15 November 2011)
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Systems biology of bacteriophage proteins and new dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics
David
M
Kristensen,
Arcady
R
Mushegian,
Eugene
V
Koonin
Genome Biology 2011, 12 (Suppl 1):P9 (19 September 2011)
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Lipid droplets as ubiquitous fat storage organelles in C. elegans
Shaobing
O
Zhang,
Rhonda
Trimble,
Fengli
Guo,
Ho
Mak
BMC Cell Biology 2010, 11 :96 (8 December 2010)
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Editor’s summary
A combination of biochemical, histological and microscopy approaches demonstrates that C. elegans uses lipid droplets as ubiquitous fat storage organelles, with promising implications for the study of fat metabolism in this model organism.
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Sex-biased transcription enhancement by a 5' tethered Gal4-MOF histone acetyltransferase fusion protein in Drosophila
Anja
H
Schiemann,
Fang
Li,
Vikki
M
Weake,
Esther
J
Belikoff,
Kent
C
Klemmer,
Stanley
A
Moore,
Maxwell
J
Scott
BMC Molecular Biology 2010, 11 :80 (9 November 2010)
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Multispectral fingerprinting for improved in vivo cell dynamics analysis
Paul
M
Kulesa,
Jessica
M
Teddy,
Miranda
Smith,
Richard
Alexander,
Cameron
HJ
Cooper,
Rusty
Lansford,
Rebecca
McLennan
BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :101 (24 September 2010)
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The role of noise and positive feedback in the onset of autosomal dominant diseases
William
J
Bosl,
Rong
Li
BMC Systems Biology 2010, 4 :93 (29 June 2010)
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Expression profiling of S. pombe acetyltransferase mutants identifies redundant pathways of gene regulation
Rebecca
L
Nugent,
Anna
Johnsson,
Brian
Fleharty,
Madelaine
Gogol,
Yongtao
Xue-Franzén,
Chris
Seidel,
Anthony
PH
Wright,
Susan
L
Forsburg
BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :59 (22 January 2010)
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Sex-dimorphic gene expression and ineffective dosage compensation of Z-linked genes in gastrulating chicken embryos
Shaobing
O
Zhang,
Sachin
Mathur,
Gaye
Hattem,
Olivier
Tassy,
Olivier
Pourquié
BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :13 (7 January 2010)
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Evolutionary history of the iroquois/Irx genes in metazoans
Pierre
Kerner,
Aissam
Ikmi,
Dario
Coen,
Michel
Vervoort
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :74 (15 April 2009)
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Genomic and biochemical approaches in the discovery of mechanisms for selective neuronal vulnerability to oxidative stress
Xinkun
Wang,
Asma
Zaidi,
Ranu
Pal,
Alexander
S
Garrett,
Rogelio
Braceras,
Xue-wen
Chen,
Mary
L
Michaelis,
Elias
K
Michaelis
BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10 :12 (19 February 2009)
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Yeast Sgf73/Ataxin-7 serves to anchor the deubiquitination module into both SAGA and Slik(SALSA) HAT complexes
Kenneth K
Lee,
Selene K
Swanson,
Laurence
Florens,
Michael P
Washburn,
Jerry L
Workman
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2009, 2 :2 (18 February 2009)
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Global analysis of alternative splicing regulation by insulin and wingless signaling in Drosophila cells
Britta
Hartmann,
Robert
Castelo,
Marco
Blanchette,
Stephanie
Boue,
Donald
C
Rio,
Juan
Valcárcel
Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R11 (29 January 2009)
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A genome-wide analysis of the response to insulin and wingless activation using splicing-sensitive microarrays shows distinct but overlapping programs of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation.
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A family of GFP-like proteins with different spectral properties in lancelet Branchiostoma floridae
Diana
Baumann,
Malcolm
Cook,
Limei
Ma,
Arcady
Mushegian,
Erik
Sanders,
Joel
Schwartz,
C Ron
Yu
Biology Direct 2008, 3 :28 (3 July 2008)
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Engineering bacteria to solve the Burnt Pancake Problem
Karmella
A
Haynes,
Marian
L
Broderick,
Adam
D
Brown,
Trevor
L
Butner,
James
O
Dickson,
W Lance
Harden,
Lane
H
Heard,
Eric
L
Jessen,
Kelly
J
Malloy,
Brad
J
Ogden,
Sabriya
Rosemond,
Samantha
Simpson,
Erin
Zwack,
A Malcolm
Campbell,
Todd
T
Eckdahl,
Laurie
J
Heyer,
Jeffrey
L
Poet
Journal of Biological Engineering 2008, 2 :8 (20 May 2008)
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E. coli cells can be engineered to sort DNA fragments into a specific order and orientation, similar to the mathematical burnt pancake problem, providing a flexible new tool for manipulating transgenic DNA in vivo.
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A statistical framework for consolidating "sibling" probe sets for Affymetrix GeneChip data
Hua
Li,
Dongxiao
Zhu,
Malcolm
Cook
BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :188 (24 April 2008)
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Detecting epistatic interactions contributing to human gene expression using the CEPH family data
Hua
Li,
Guimin
Gao,
Jian
Li,
Grier
P
Page,
Kui
Zhang
BMC Proceedings 2007, 1 (Suppl 1):S67 (18 December 2007)
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Evolutionary history of bacteriophages with double-stranded DNA genomes
Galina
Glazko,
Vladimir
Makarenkov,
Jing
Liu,
Arcady
Mushegian
Biology Direct 2007, 2 :36 (6 December 2007)
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A topological algorithm for identification of structural domains of proteins
Frank
Emmert-Streib,
Arcady
Mushegian
BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8 :237 (3 July 2007)
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The non-dosage compensated Lsp1 α gene of Drosophila melanogaster escapes acetylation by MOF in larval fat body nuclei, but is flanked by two dosage compensated genes
Vikki
M
Weake,
Maxwell
J
Scott
BMC Molecular Biology 2007, 8 :35 (19 May 2007)
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The Genopolis Microarray Database
Andrea
Splendiani,
Marco
Brandizi,
Gael
Even,
Ottavio
Beretta,
Norman
Pavelka,
Mattia
Pelizzola,
Manuel
Mayhaus,
Maria
Foti,
Giancarlo
Mauri,
Paola
Ricciardi-Castagnoli
BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8 (Suppl 1):S21 (8 March 2007)
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Characterization of the minimum domain required for targeting budding yeast myosin II to the site of cell division
Ida
MB
Lister,
Nicola
J
Tolliday,
Rong
Li
BMC Biology 2006, 4 :19 (26 June 2006)
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The budding yeast myosin II protein Myo1 is likely to exist as a trimer and within the Myo1 minimum localization domain as now defined, the hinge region is required for contraction of the contractile ring during cytokinesis.
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Similarity searches in genome-wide numerical data sets
Galina
Glazko,
Michael
Coleman,
Arcady
Mushegian
Biology Direct 2006, 1 :13 (30 May 2006)
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Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation breaks the genome's silence
Wei-Jong
Shia,
Samantha
G
Pattenden,
Jerry
L
Workman
Genome Biology 2006, 7 :217 (10 May 2006)
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Editor’s summary
The acetylation of histone H4 on lysine 16 is a crucial event in switching chromatin from a repressive to a transcriptionally active state.
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CBFβ is a facultative Runx partner in the sea urchin embryo
Anthony
J
Robertson,
Carrie
Dickey-Sims,
Andrew
Ransick,
Dawn
E
Rupp,
John
J
McCarthy,
James
A
Coffman
BMC Biology 2006, 4 :4 (9 February 2006)
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Editor’s summary
Like its mammalian homologs, sea urchin Core Binding Factor beta binds to a Runx partner, but although Runt-1 deficiency affects embryonic differentiation and cell survival, CBFbeta knockdown affects only differentiation.