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Kiyun Park, Hyunbin Jo, Dong-Kyun Kim and Ihn-Sil Kwak
Vitellogenesis is a pivotal reproductive process of the yolk formation in crustaceans. Vitellogenin (VTG) is the precursor of main yolk proteins and synthesized by endogenous estrogens. The intertidal mud crab (Macrophthalmus japonicus) inhabits sediment...
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Shengyu Li, Jiali Zeng, Zhao Zheng, Qi Zhou, Shaona Chen, Yixiong Zheng, Xiaorong Wan and Bin Yang
Seed vigor is an important agronomic trait, and wide variation exists among peanut accessions. However, the detailed regulatory mechanisms underlying differences in seed vigor between varieties are not known in peanut yet. Here, we performed a comparativ...
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Xiao Liu, Xuhui Mao, Jihong Chen, Yan Du, Wenjie Jin, Ruiyuan Liu, Libin Zhou and Ying Qu
The oil sunflower is an important oil crop and ornamental plant. Flowering time affects the environmental adaptability and final yield of oil sunflowers. Floral induction is one of the important events that determines subsequent reproductive growth and s...
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Zhoujie Ma, Peizhen Wu, Lei Deng, Kaiwu Zhang, Wenpeng Yang, Hong Ren, Li Song and Wei Wang
The enhancement of the nutritional composition of maize grains could be achieved by the introduction of a mutation with a heightened lysine content. To obtain double-recessive mutant lines for the o16 and wx genes, a molecular-marker-assisted selection t...
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Peiqi Sun, Xuwen Cao and Liusuo Zhang
Diets regulate animal development, reproduction, and lifespan. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. We previously showed that a chemically defined CeMM diet attenuates the development and promotes the longevity of C. elegans, but ...
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Witchulada Yungyuen, Thi Thuong Vo, Apiradee Uthairatanakij, Gang Ma, Lancui Zhang, Nopparat Tatmala, Samak Kaewsuksaeng, Pongphen Jitareerat and Masaya Kato
Carotenoids are considered to be important components in mango fruits. However, there is a lack of understanding about the regulation of carotenoids in mango. To gain an insight into the carotenoid metabolism pathway, carotenoid content and the expressio...
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Hanen Mhamdi, Jérémie Bourdon, Abdelhalim Larhlimi and Mourad Elloumi
The integration of high-throughput data to build predictive computational models of cellular metabolism is a major challenge of systems biology. These models are needed to predict cellular responses to genetic and environmental perturbations. Typically, ...
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Mawulikplimi Yao Adzavon, Pengxiang Zhao, Xujuan Zhang, Xin Zhang, Limin Wang, Tarekegn Gebreyesus Abisso, Xuemei Ma
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Despite a perpetual increase in the prevalence of benign lymphoepithelial lesion, data on the mechanisms governing its pathogenesis are still missing. Thus, we aimed in the present study to evaluate whether TLRs could regulate the expression of the pleio...
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Ana Usié, Fernanda Simões, Pedro Barbosa, Brígida Meireles, Inês Chaves, Sónia Gonçalves, André Folgado, Maria H. Almeida, José Matos and António M. Ramos
Cork oaks show a high capacity of bud sprouting as a response to injury, which is important for species survival when dealing with external factors, such as drought or fires. The characterization of the cork oak transcriptome involved in the different st...
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Xiaofen Li, Yanni Wu, Yuhao Wang, Xiaozhi Yang, Rui Gao, Qinyue Lu, Xiaoyang Lv and Zhi Chen
Milk, known for its high content of short- and medium-chain fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, has attracted substantial attention due to its nutritional and health value. The regulation of fatty acid metabolism by non-coding RNAs has become a subj...
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Zihao Li, Lili An, Feng Yan, Wendi Shen, Wenjun Du and Ruihua Dai
Microcystis aeruginosa (M. aeruginosa) is a dominant species among frequent cyanobacterial blooms and is well known for its toxin-producing ability. Phosphorus (P) is a typical growth-limiting element for M. aeruginosa. Although alterations in physiologi...
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Rocco A. Scollo, Antonio G. Spampinato, Georgia Fargetta, Vincenzo Cutello and Mario Pavone
Disease phenotypes are generally caused by the failure of gene modules which often have similar biological roles. Through the study of biological networks, it is possible to identify the intrinsic structure of molecular interactions in order to identify ...
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Jiao Deng, Lijuan Wang, Rebecca Njeri Damaris, Jiali Zhao, Lan Zhang, Tingting Wang, Chaojie Yang, Juan Huang, Taoxiong Shi, Liwei Zhu, Ziye Meng, Fang Cai and Qingfu Chen
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) belongs to the family of Polygonaceae and is used as a multi-functional plant. R2R3-MYB transcription factors play a crucial part in plant growth and are involved in many biological processes where they reg...
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Hassan S. Al-Zahrani, Tarek A. A. Moussa, Hameed Alsamadany, Rehab M. Hafez and Michael P. Fuller
Tomato cv. super strain B was widely cultivated in Saudi Arabia under drought stress. Illumina Hiseq-2000 was used to create the transcriptional profile of tomato cultivar super strain B. A total of 98,069 contigs were gathered, with an average length of...
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Xuwen Cao, Peiqi Sun and Liusuo Zhang
Stearic acid represents one of the most abundant fatty acids in the Western diet and profoundly regulates health and diseases of animals and human beings. We previously showed that stearic acid supplementation promoted development of the terrestrial mode...
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Malik Yousef and Jens Allmer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNA sequences that are actively involved in gene regulation. These regulators on the post-transcriptional level have been discovered in virtually all eukaryotic organisms. Additionally, miRNAs seem to exist in viruses and mig...
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