1.
The Caenorhabditis elegans voltage-gated calcium channel subunits UNC-2 and UNC-36 and the calcium-dependent kinase UNC-43/CaMKII regulate neuromuscular junction morphology
Raymond
C
Caylor,
Yishi
Jin,
Brian
D
Ackley
Neural Development 2013, 8 :10 (10 May 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
2.
Now on display: a gallery of group II intron structures at different stages of catalysis
Marco
Marcia,
Srinivas
Somarowthu,
Anna
Marie
Pyle
Mobile DNA 2013, 4 :14 (1 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
This review by Anna Pyle and colleagues provides a framework for classifying and understanding new crystal structures of these mobile genetic elements.
3.
Ancient origin of somatic and visceral neurons
Marc
Nomaksteinsky,
Stefan
Kassabov,
Zoubida
Chettouh,
Henri-Corto
Stoeklé,
Laure
Bonnaud,
Gilles
Fortin,
Eric
R
Kandel,
Jean-François
Brunet
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :53 (30 April 2013)
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The great American palaeontologist and anatomist Alfred Romer speculated that early in animal life, an emerging somatic nervous system, focused on the outside world, struggled to dominate the visceral nervous system that takes care of the internal systems that keep us alive. Jean-François Brunet and colleagues identify the molecular signatures that tell the evolutionary tale of this duality.
4.
Sixty years of genome biology
W
Doolittle,
Peter
Fraser,
Mark
B
Gerstein,
Brenton
R
Graveley,
Steven
Henikoff,
Curtis
Huttenhower,
Alicia
Oshlack,
Chris
P
Ponting,
John
L
Rinn,
Michael
C
Schatz,
Jernej
Ule,
Detlef
Weigel,
George
M
Weinstock
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :113 (25 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Members of Genome Biology's Editorial Board select their highlights from the 60 years of genome biology that followed the double helix
5.
The complex binding of PRDM9
Laure
Ségurel
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :112 (24 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A Research Highlight by Laure Segurel offers a perspective on this issue's Research Article delineating the DNA-binding properties of PRDM9
6.
ZASC1 knockout mice exhibit an early bone marrow-specific defect in murine leukemia virus replication
Shannon
Seidel,
James
Bruce,
Mathias
Leblanc,
Kuo-Fen
Lee,
Hung
Fan,
Paul
Ahlquist,
John AT
Young
Virology Journal 2013, 10 :130 (24 April 2013)
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7.
Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors
Dario
Cantu,
Vanesa
Segovia,
Daniel
MacLean,
Rosemary
Bayles,
Xianming
Chen,
Sophien
Kamoun,
Jorge
Dubcovsky,
Diane GO
Saunders,
Cristobal
Uauy
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :270 (22 April 2013)
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8.
Of flies and men: insights on organismal metabolism from fruit flies
Akhila
Rajan,
Norbert
Perrimon
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :38 (15 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
For many reasons metabolism is now a high-profile topic, and in an update to mark the tenth anniversary of BMC Biology , Norbert Perrimon and Akhila Rajan review the remarkable similarities that make Drosophila a model for mammalian metabolism, and some recent advances made possible by the advantages of this model organism.
9.
Two structure papers, a call from Frankfurt airport, and how to escape from reviewer delays: An interview with Peter Walter
Peter
Walter,
Miranda
Robertson
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :34 (15 April 2013)
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10.
An interview with Patrick O Brown on the origins and future of open access
Patrick
O
Brown
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :33 (15 April 2013)
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Editor’s summary
In an interview for the BMC Biology tenth anniversary collection, Patrick O Brown excavates his memory for the origins of open access publishing, and finds a vision of the future still to be fulfilled.
11.
High-resolution mapping of transcription factor binding sites on native chromatin
Sivakanthan
Kasinathan,
Steven
Henikoff
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):P114 (8 April 2013)
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12.
Generation of a luciferase-based reporter for CHH and CG DNA methylation in
Arabidopsis thaliana
Thanh Theresa
Dinh,
Michael
O’Leary,
So Youn
Won,
Shengben
Li,
Lorena
Arroyo,
Xigang
Liu,
Andrew
Defries,
Binglian
Zheng,
Sean
R
Cutler,
Xuemei
Chen
Silence 2013, 4 :1 (5 April 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
13.
Correction: Mechanisms of stomatal development: an evolutionary view
Anne
Vatén,
Dominique
C
Bergmann
EvoDevo 2013, 4 :11 (4 April 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
14.
The pea aphid uses a version of the terminal system during oviparous, but not viviparous, development
Ryan
D
Bickel,
Hillary
C
Cleveland,
Joanna
Barkas,
Caitlin
C
Jeschke,
Amelie
A
Raz,
David
L
Stern,
Gregory
K
Davis
EvoDevo 2013, 4 :10 (3 April 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
15.
Pushing the (nuclear) envelope into meiosis
Abby
F
Dernburg
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :110 (27 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Abby Dernburg discusses recent research linking nuclear lamins to chromosome pairing in meiosis
16.
Centromere-specific histone Cse4 by the chaperone Scm3
Uhn-Soo
Cho,
Stephen
C
Harrison
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):P95 (18 March 2013)
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17.
Genome-wide analysis reveals TET-and TDG-mediated 5-methylcytosine oxidation dynamics
Li
Shen,
Hao
Wu,
Dinh
Diep,
Ana
C
D’Alessio,
Alan
Fung,
Kun
Zhang,
Yi
Zhang
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):P88 (18 March 2013)
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18.
MeCP2 binds to 5hmc enriched within active genes and accessible chromatin in the nervous system
Marian
Mellen,
Pinar
Ayata,
Scott
Dewell,
Skirmantas
Kriaucionis,
Nathaniel
Heintz
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):P52 (18 March 2013)
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19.
The roles of long noncoding RNA in epigenetic regulation
Jeannie
T
Lee
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):O31 (18 March 2013)
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20.
ISWI and CHD chromatin remodelers bind to promoters but act in gene bodies
Gabriel
E
Zentner,
Toshio
Tsukiyama,
Steven
Henikoff
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):O29 (18 March 2013)
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21.
Germline epigenetics, and reprogramming in zebrafish early embryos
Magdalena
E
Potok,
David
A
Nix,
Timothy
J
Parnell,
Bradley
R
Cairns
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):O23 (18 March 2013)
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22.
Chromatin and higher-order chromosome organization shape the recombination landscape in C. elegans
Chitra
V
Kotwaliwale,
Sasha
A
Langley,
Andrea
C
Dose,
Clara
W
Wang,
Abby
F
Dernburg
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):O17 (18 March 2013)
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23.
Methylation of histone H3 at lysine 23 in meiotic heterochromatin
Romeo
Papazvan,
Ekaterina
Voronina,
Jessica
R
Chapman,
Tonya
M
Gilbert,
Elizabeth
Meier,
Jeffrey
Shabanowitz,
Donald
F
Hunt,
Yifan
Liu,
Sean
D
Taverna
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 (Suppl 1):O13 (18 March 2013)
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24.
Retrotransposition of gene transcripts leads to structural variation in mammalian genomes
Adam
D
Ewing,
Tracy
J
Ballinger,
Dent
Earl,
Christopher
C
Harris,
Li
Ding,
Richard
K
Wilson,
David
Haussler
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :R22 (13 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
An analysis of gene retrocopy insertion polymorphisms in the germlines of individual humans, chimpanzees and mice, and in cancerous somatic tissues
25.
Comparative analysis of protein-protein interactions in the defense response of rice and wheat
Dario
Cantu,
Baoju
Yang,
Randy
Ruan,
Kun
Li,
Virginia
Menzo,
Daolin
Fu,
Mawsheng
Chern,
Pamela
C
Ronald,
Jorge
Dubcovsky
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :166 (12 March 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
26.
A distance-field based automatic neuron tracing method
Jinzhu
Yang,
Paloma
T
Gonzalez-Bellido,
Hanchuan
Peng
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :93 (12 March 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
27.
In situ hybridization protocol for enhanced detection of gene expression in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Ryan
S
King,
Phillip
A
Newmark
BMC Developmental Biology 2013, 13 :8 (12 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Modification of multiple steps in in situ hybridization methods for the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea greatly increase signal detection and may prove useful for whole-mount fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in other model organisms
28.
Molecular signaling and targets from itch: lessons for cough
Pamela Colleen
LaVinka,
Xingzhong
Dong
Cough 2013, 9 :8 (6 March 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
29.
Spatio-temporal analysis of malaria within a transmission season in Bandiagara, Mali
Drissa
Coulibaly,
Stanislas
Rebaudet,
Mark
Travassos,
Youssouf
Tolo,
Matthew
Laurens,
Abdoulaye
K
Kone,
Karim
Traore,
Ando
Guindo,
Issa
Diarra,
Amadou
Niangaly,
Modibo
Daou,
Ahmadou
Dembele,
Mody
Sissoko,
Bourema
Kouriba,
Nadine
Dessay,
Jean
Gaudart,
Renaud
Piarroux,
Mahamadou
A
Thera,
Christopher
V
Plowe,
Ogobara
K
Doumbo
Malaria Journal 2013, 12 :82 (1 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Describes the spatial and temporal variation of Plasmodium falciparum infections in children from a rural population from Mali, based on a longitudinal study on malaria incidence in Bandiagara. The spatial and temporal variation of malaria incidence is mapped and interpolated. Clusters of low incidence are identified.
30.
Epigenetics & Chromatin: interactions and processes
Steven
Henikoff,
Frank
Grosveld
Epigenetics & Chromatin 2013, 6 :2 (27 February 2013)
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31.
Nucleoplasmic calcium signaling and cell proliferation: calcium signaling in the nucleus
Rodrigo
R
Resende,
Lidia
M
Andrade,
Andre
G
Oliveira,
Erika
S
Guimarães,
Silvia
Guatimosim,
M Fatima
Leite
Cell Communication and Signaling 2013, 11 :14 (21 February 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
32.
MicroRNAs miR-26a, miR-26b, and miR-29b accelerate osteogenic differentiation of unrestricted somatic stem cells from human cord blood
Hans-Ingo
Trompeter,
Janine
Dreesen,
Eugenie
Hermann,
Katharina
M
Iwaniuk,
Markus
Hafner,
Neil
Renwick,
Thomas
Tuschl,
Peter
Wernet
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :111 (19 February 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
33.
Insights into the evolution of Darwin’s finches from comparative analysis of the Geospiza magnirostris genome sequence
Chris
M
Rands,
Aaron
Darling,
Matthew
Fujita,
Lesheng
Kong,
Matthew
T
Webster,
Céline
Clabaut,
Richard
D
Emes,
Andreas
Heger,
Stephen
Meader,
Michael Brent
Hawkins,
Michael
B
Eisen,
Clotilde
Teiling,
Jason
Affourtit,
Benjamin
Boese,
Peter
R
Grant,
Barbara Rosemary
Grant,
Jonathan
A
Eisen,
Arhat
Abzhanov,
Chris
P
Ponting
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :95 (12 February 2013)
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Editor’s summary
204 years after Charles Darwin’s birth, sequencing of the genome of the Darwin’s Finch Geospiza magnirostris reveals over 13,000 predicted genes, of which two under positive selection may have contributed to beak morphology evolution, which so interested Darwin.
34.
Genotyping 1000 yeast strains by next-generation sequencing
Stefan
Wilkening,
Manu
M
Tekkedil,
Gen
Lin,
Emilie
S
Fritsch,
Wu
Wei,
Julien
Gagneur,
David
W
Lazinski,
Andrew
Camilli,
Lars
M
Steinmetz
BMC Genomics 2013, 14 :90 (9 February 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
35.
Altered responsiveness to extracellular ATP enhances acetaminophen hepatotoxicity
Sylvia
S
Amaral,
André
G
Oliveira,
Pedro
E
Marques,
Jayane L
D
Quintão,
Daniele
A
Pires,
Rodrigo
R
Resende,
Bruna
R
Sousa,
Juliana
G
Melgaço,
Marcelo
A
Pinto,
Remo
C
Russo,
Ariane K
C
Gomes,
Lidia
M
Andrade,
Rafael
F
Zanin,
Rafaela V
S
Pereira,
Cristina
Bonorino,
Frederico
M
Soriani,
Cristiano
X
Lima,
Denise
C
Cara,
Mauro
M
Teixeira,
Maria
F
Leite,
Gustavo
B
Menezes
Cell Communication and Signaling 2013, 11 :10 (5 February 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
36.
Role of SUMO-1 and SUMO interacting motifs in rhesus TRIM5α -mediated restriction
Zana
Lukic,
Stephen
P
Goff,
Edward
M
Campbell,
Gloria
Arriagada
Retrovirology 2013, 10 :10 (1 February 2013)
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Editor’s summary
This study finds that the rhTRIM5alpha B30.2/SPRY domain is not only important for the recognition of the HIV-1 CA, but it is also important for its association with SUMO-1 or SUMO-1 modified proteins. These interactions help to maintain TRIM5alpha protein levels and its nuclear localization into specific nuclear bodies.
37.
Multi-channel acoustic recording and automated analysis of Drosophila courtship songs
Benjamin
J
Arthur,
Tomoko
Sunayama-Morita,
Philip
Coen,
Mala
Murthy,
David
L
Stern
BMC Biology 2013, 11 :11 (31 January 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Drosophila fruit flies' "singing" during courtship is a model system for both genetic and neural control of behaviour. A newly-designed recording system allows for analysis of the songs' various rhythms and cycles in unprecedented detail.
38.
Comparative analysis of tandem repeats from hundreds of species reveals unique insights into centromere evolution
Daniël
P
Melters,
Keith
R
Bradnam,
Hugh
A
Young,
Natalie
Telis,
Michael
R
May,
J
Ruby,
Robert
Sebra,
Paul
Peluso,
John
Eid,
David
Rank,
José
Garcia,
Joseph
L
DeRisi,
Timothy
Smith,
Christian
Tobias,
Jeffrey
Ross-Ibarra,
Ian
Korf,
Simon
WL
Chan
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :R10 (30 January 2013)
Abstract | Provisional PDF
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Editor’s summary
An analysis of centromere tandem repeats in 282 species reveals similar modes of evolution despite the lack of sequence conservation
39.
Accelerated exon evolution within primate segmental duplications
Belen
Lorente-Galdos,
Jonathan
Bleyhl,
Gabriel
Santpere,
Laura
Vives,
Oscar
Ramírez,
Jessica
Hernandez,
Roger
Anglada,
Gregory
M
Cooper,
Arcadi
Navarro,
Evan
E
Eichler,
Tomas
Marques-Bonet
Genome Biology 2013, 14 :R9 (29 January 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A new study looks at segmental duplication genes in humans and macaques to elucidate exon evolution in primates
40.
Seq2Ref: a web server to facilitate functional interpretation
Wenlin
Li,
Qian
Cong,
Lisa
N
Kinch,
Nick
V
Grishin
BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14 :30 (28 January 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
41.
Strand-specific libraries for high throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) prepared without poly(A) selection
Zhao
Zhang,
William
E
Theurkauf,
Zhiping
Weng,
Phillip
D
Zamore
Silence 2012, 3 :9 (28 December 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
42.
Genome-Wide Characterization of the Phosphate Starvation Response in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Ian
Carter-O’Connell,
Michael
T
Peel,
Dennis
D
Wykoff,
Erin
K
O’Shea
BMC Genomics 2012, 13 :697 (12 December 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
43.
Identification of new cell size control genes in S. cerevisiae
Huzefa
Dungrawala,
Hui
Hua,
Jill
Wright,
Lesley
Abraham,
Thivakorn
Kasemsri,
Anthony
McDowell,
Jessica
Stilwell,
Brandt
L
Schneider
Cell Division 2012, 7 :24 (12 December 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
44.
Identification of a 3-aminoimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine inhibitor of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase
Daniel
Elleder,
Thomas
J
Baiga,
Rebecca
L
Russell,
John
A
Naughton,
Stephen
H
Hughes,
Joseph
P
Noel,
John
AT
Young
Virology Journal 2012, 9 :305 (11 December 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
45.
Genomic impact of eukaryotic transposable elements
Irina
R
Arkhipova,
Mark
A
Batzer,
Juergen
Brosius,
Cédric
Feschotte,
John
V
Moran,
Jürgen
Schmitz,
Jerzy
Jurka
Mobile DNA 2012, 3 :19 (21 November 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
46.
Identification of proteins binding coding and non-coding human RNAs using protein microarrays
Zurab
Siprashvili,
Dan
E
Webster,
Markus
Kretz,
Danielle
Johnston,
John
L
Rinn,
Howard
Y
Chang,
Paul
A
Khavari
BMC Genomics 2012, 13 :633 (16 November 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
47.
The ciliary proteins Meckelin and Jouberin are required for retinoic acid-dependent neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells
S
Romani,
B
Illi,
R
De Mori,
JG
Gleeson,
EM
Valente
Cilia 2012, 1 (Suppl 1):P77 (16 November 2012)
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48.
Exome resequencing identifies novel NPHP genes, implicating DNA damage response signaling in the pathogenesis of ciliopathies
F
Hildebrandt
Cilia 2012, 1 (Suppl 1):O2 (16 November 2012)
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49.
Translational benefits to patients in the post-genomic era
JG
Gleeson
Cilia 2012, 1 (Suppl 1):K1 (16 November 2012)
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50.
Oculus: faster sequence alignment by streaming read compression
Brendan
A
Veeneman,
Matthew
K
Iyer,
Arul
M
Chinnaiyan
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 :297 (13 November 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed