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Genes, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2020 - 119 articles

Cover Story: Llamas are invaluable genetic resources of Peru. They are pack animals, and their fiber is used for clothing. Despite their importance, their population is decreasing. In this context, the Camelid Germplasm Bank—Quimsachata shelters a collection of llamas from their two phenotypes, Ch'aku and Q'ara, from different regions of Peru. Assessing the genetic variability and differentiation of the llama population from the Germplasm Bank, a high genetic variation was found among individuals, hence evidencing an adequate genetic management to conserve and maintain llama diversity. View this paper.
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Articles (119)

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,334 Views
24 Pages

25 May 2020

DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) represent a major barrier blocking DNA replication fork progression. ICL accumulation results in growth arrest and cell death—particularly in cell populations undergoing high replicative activity, such as canc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,359 Views
16 Pages

Association Analysis and Meta-Analysis of Multi-Allelic Variants for Large-Scale Sequence Data

  • Yu Jiang,
  • Sai Chen,
  • Xingyan Wang,
  • Mengzhen Liu,
  • William G. Iacono,
  • John K. Hewitt,
  • John E. Hokanson,
  • Kenneth Krauter,
  • Markku Laakso and
  • Kevin W. Li
  • + 10 authors

25 May 2020

There is great interest in understanding the impact of rare variants in human diseases using large sequence datasets. In deep sequence datasets of >10,000 samples, ~10% of the variant sites are observed to be multi-allelic. Many of the multi-allel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,568 Views
25 Pages

Genetics of Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism and Meat Eating Quality in Tattykeel Australian White Lambs

  • Shedrach Benjamin Pewan,
  • John Roger Otto,
  • Roger Huerlimann,
  • Alyssa Maree Budd,
  • Felista Waithira Mwangi,
  • Richard Crawford Edmunds,
  • Benjamin William Behrens Holman,
  • Michelle Lauren Elizabeth Henry,
  • Robert Tumwesigye Kinobe and
  • Oyelola Abdulwasiu Adegboye
  • + 1 author

25 May 2020

Meat eating quality with a healthy composition hinges on intramuscular fat (IMF), fat melting point (FMP), tenderness, juiciness, flavour and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA) content. These health-beneficial n-3 LC-PUFA pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
18,469 Views
28 Pages

Climate Change and Green Sea Turtle Sex Ratio—Preventing Possible Extinction

  • Jana Blechschmidt,
  • Meike J. Wittmann and
  • Chantal Blüml

25 May 2020

Climate change poses a threat to species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). A recent study on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) showed a highly female-skewed sex ratio with almost all juvenil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,536 Views
15 Pages

Sequence Analysis and FISH Mapping of Four Satellite DNA Families among Cervidae

  • Miluse Vozdova,
  • Svatava Kubickova,
  • Halina Cernohorska,
  • Jan Fröhlich,
  • Natália Martínková and
  • Jiri Rubes

24 May 2020

Centromeric and pericentromeric chromosome regions are occupied by satellite DNA. Satellite DNAs play essential roles in chromosome segregation, and, thanks to their extensive sequence variability, to some extent, they can also be used as phylogeneti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,359 Views
14 Pages

Distinct Tumor Microenvironments Are a Defining Feature of Strain-Specific CRISPR/Cas9-Induced MPNSTs

  • Amanda Scherer,
  • Victoria R. Stephens,
  • Gavin R. McGivney,
  • Wade R. Gutierrez,
  • Emily A. Laverty,
  • Vickie Knepper-Adrian and
  • Rebecca D. Dodd

23 May 2020

The tumor microenvironment plays important roles in cancer biology, but genetic backgrounds of mouse models can complicate interpretation of tumor phenotypes. A deeper understanding of strain-dependent influences on the tumor microenvironment of gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,919 Views
23 Pages

22 May 2020

Arabidopsis thaliana MYB43 (AtMYB43) is suggested to be involved in cell wall lignification. PtrMYB152, the Populus orthologue of AtMYB43, is a transcriptional activator of lignin biosynthesis and vessel wall deposition. In this research, MYB43 genes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,310 Views
9 Pages

Comparative Analysis of ANDE 6C Rapid DNA Analysis System and Traditional Methods

  • Michele Ragazzo,
  • Stefano Melchiorri,
  • Laura Manzo,
  • Valeria Errichiello,
  • Giulio Puleri,
  • Fabio Nicastro and
  • Emiliano Giardina

22 May 2020

Rapid DNA analysis is an ultrafast and fully automated DNA-typing system, which can produce interpretable genetic profiles from biological samples within 90 minutes. This “swab in—profile out” method comprises DNA extraction, amplif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,854 Views
14 Pages

Genome-Wide Patterns of Homozygosity and Relevant Characterizations on the Population Structure in Piétrain Pigs

  • Huiwen Zhan,
  • Saixian Zhang,
  • Kaili Zhang,
  • Xia Peng,
  • Shengsong Xie,
  • Xinyun Li,
  • Shuhong Zhao and
  • Yunlong Ma

21 May 2020

Investigating the patterns of homozygosity, linkage disequilibrium, effective population size and inbreeding coefficients in livestock contributes to our understanding of the genetic diversity and evolutionary history. Here we used Illumina PorcineSN...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,042 Views
10 Pages

Genome Maintenance by DNA Helicase B

  • Lindsey Hazeslip,
  • Maroof Khan Zafar,
  • Muhammad Zain Chauhan and
  • Alicia K. Byrd

21 May 2020

DNA Helicase B (HELB) is a conserved helicase in higher eukaryotes with roles in the initiation of DNA replication and in the DNA damage and replication stress responses. HELB is a predominately nuclear protein in G1 phase where it is involved in ini...

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