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Genes, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2020 - 121 articles

Cover Story: Populations that are asymmetrically isolated, such as above waterfalls, can sometimes export emigrants in a direction from which they do not receive immigrants, and thus provide an excellent opportunity to study the evolution of dispersal traits. We investigated the rheotaxis of guppies above barrier waterfalls in the Aripo and Turure rivers in Trinidad—the later having been introduced in 1957 from a below-waterfall population in another drainage. We predicted that, as a result of strong selection against downstream emigration, both of these above-waterfall populations should show strong positive rheotaxis. Matching these expectations, both populations expressed high levels of positive rheotaxis, possibly reflecting contemporary (rapid) evolution in the introduced Turure population View this paper
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Articles (121)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,238 Views
13 Pages

24 February 2020

The plant-specific IQ67-domain (IQD) protein family members are downstream targets of calcium sensors, known to regulate plant growth and lateral organ polarity, and basal defense response against environmental cues. No systematic study of IQD gene f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,773 Views
12 Pages

Serendipitous In Situ Conservation of Faba Bean Landraces in Tunisia: A Case Study

  • Elyes Babay,
  • Khalil Khamassi,
  • Wilma Sabetta,
  • Monica Marilena Miazzi,
  • Cinzia Montemurro,
  • Domenico Pignone,
  • Donatella Danzi,
  • Mariella Matilde Finetti-Sialer and
  • Giacomo Mangini

24 February 2020

Cultivation of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Tunisia is largely based on improved varieties of the crop. However, a few farmers continue to produce local cultivars or landraces. The National Gene Bank of Tunisia (NGBT) recently launched a collection p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,447 Views
18 Pages

Hearing Impairment Overview in Africa: the Case of Cameroon

  • Edmond Wonkam Tingang,
  • Jean Jacques Noubiap,
  • Jean Valentin F. Fokouo,
  • Oluwafemi Gabriel Oluwole,
  • Séraphin Nguefack,
  • Emile R. Chimusa and
  • Ambroise Wonkam

22 February 2020

The incidence of hearing impairment (HI) is higher in low- and middle-income countries when compared to high-income countries. There is therefore a necessity to estimate the burden of this condition in developing world. The aim of our study was to us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,548 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2020

Dissecting the genetic basis of natural variation in disease response in hosts provides insights into the coevolutionary dynamics of host-pathogen interactions. Here, a genome-wide association study of Drosophila melanogaster survival after infection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,065 Views
19 Pages

Integrative Analysis Identifies Candidate Tumor Microenvironment and Intracellular Signaling Pathways that Define Tumor Heterogeneity in NF1

  • Jineta Banerjee,
  • Robert J Allaway,
  • Jaclyn N Taroni,
  • Aaron Baker,
  • Xiaochun Zhang,
  • Chang In Moon,
  • Christine A Pratilas,
  • Jaishri O Blakeley,
  • Justin Guinney and
  • Angela Hirbe
  • + 2 authors

21 February 2020

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a monogenic syndrome that gives rise to numerous symptoms including cognitive impairment, skeletal abnormalities, and growth of benign nerve sheath tumors. Nearly all NF1 patients develop cutaneous neurofibromas (cNF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,014 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2020

Growing evidence has revealed that abnormal alternative splicing (AS) events are closely related to carcinogenic processes. However, the comprehensive study on the prognostic value of splicing events involved in uveal melanoma (UM) is still lacking....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,785 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Stem Secondary Growth of Grafted Rosa rugosa ‘Rosea’ Scion and R. multiflora ‘Innermis’ Rootstock

  • Jing-shuang Sun,
  • Rui-yang Hu,
  • Fu-ling Lv,
  • Yan-fang Yang,
  • Zhi-min Tang,
  • Guang-shun Zheng,
  • Jian-bo Li,
  • Hua Tian,
  • Yan Xu and
  • Shao-feng Li

21 February 2020

Grafted plant is a chimeric organism formed by the connection of scion and rootstock through stems, so stem growth and development become one of the important factors to affect grafted plant state. However, information regarding the molecular respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,564 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2020

Ubiquitination is one of several post-transcriptional modifications of histone 2B (H2B) which affect the chromatin structure and, hence, influence gene transcription. This study focuses on Alternaria alternata, a fungal pathogen responsible for leaf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
12,721 Views
19 Pages

Anti-Aging Effects of Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss) Callus Culture Extract through Transcriptome Profiling

  • Won Kyong Cho,
  • Hye-In Kim,
  • Soo-Yun Kim,
  • Hyo Hyun Seo,
  • Jihyeok Song,
  • Jiyeon Kim,
  • Dong Sun Shin,
  • Yeonhwa Jo,
  • Hoseong Choi and
  • Jeong Hun Lee
  • + 1 author

21 February 2020

Edelweiss (Leontopodium Alpinum) in the family Asteraceae is a wildflower that grows in rocky limestone places. Here, we investigated the efficacy of edelweiss callus culture extract (Leontopodium Alpinum callus culture extract; LACCE) using multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,808 Views
23 Pages

21 February 2020

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are important regulators of cellular functions, playing critical roles on the survival of bacteria and in the case of pathogens, on their interaction with the host. RBPs are involved in transcriptional, post-transcriptiona...

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Genes - ISSN 2073-4425