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1. Gene variants identified by whole-exome sequencing in 33 French women with premature ovarian insufficiency

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Yang, Xiang, Touraine, Philippe, Desai, Swapna, Humphreys, Gregory, Jiang, Huaiyang, Yatsenko, Alexander, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Ovarian Cancer, Biotechnology, Rare Diseases, Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Exome, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins, Nuclear Proteins, Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases), Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, Trans-Activators, Exome Sequencing, Premature ovarian insufficiency, Whole-exome sequencing, Gene variants, Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine, Reproductive medicine
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PurposeTo investigate the potential genetic etiology of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI).MethodsWhole-exome sequencing (WES) was done on DNA samples from women diagnosed with POI. Mutations identified were analyzed by in silico tools and were annotated according to the guidelines of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Plausible variants were confirmed by Sanger sequencing.ResultsFour of the 33 individuals (12%) carried pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants, and 6 individuals carried variants of unknown significance. The genes identified with pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants included PMM2, MCM9, and PSMC3IP.ConclusionsWES is an efficient tool for identifying gene variants in POI women; however, interpretation of variants is hampered by few exome studies involving ovarian disorders and the need for trio sequencing to determine inheritance and to detect de novo variants.

Published
2019

2. X-linked ADGRG2 mutation and obstructive azoospermia in a large Pakistani family.

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Khan, Muhammad Jaseem, Pollock, Nijole, Jiang, Huaiyang, Castro, Carlos, Nazli, Rubina, Ahmed, Jawad, Basit, Sulman, Rajkovic, Aleksandar, and Yatsenko, Alexander N

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Testis, Animals, Mice, Knockout, Humans, Mice, Disease Models, Animal, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Codon, Nonsense, DNA Mutational Analysis, Adult, Pakistan, Male, Genes, X-Linked, Azoospermia, Semen Analysis, Ataxin-7, Whole Exome Sequencing, Genetics, Contraception/Reproduction, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Infertility, Biotechnology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Knockout, Disease Models, Animal, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled, Codon, Nonsense, Genes, X-Linked, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Other Physical Sciences
Abstract

We performed whole exome sequencing to identify an unknown genetic cause of azoospermia and male infertility in a large Pakistani family. Three infertile males were subjected to semen analysis, hormone testing, testicular histology, ultrasonography, karyotyping, Y-chromosome microdeletion and CFTR testing. The clinical testing suggested a diagnosis of obstructive azoospermia (OA). To identify the cause, we performed whole exome sequencing (WES) for 2 infertile brothers and 2 fertile family members. For segregation analysis and variant confirmation, we performed Sanger sequencing. WES data analysis of the family revealed segregated variants in 3 candidate genes. We considered novel nonsense variant c.2440C > T(p.Arg814*) in X-linked gene ADGRG2 as biologically most plausible. It is predicted to truncate the protein by 204 amino acids (aa) at a key transmembrane domain. Adgrg2-knockout male mice show sperm loss due to obstructive fluid stasis, while ADGRG2 mutations cause OA in the infertile male patients. Our analysis of testicular histology reveals secondary severe reduction of spermatogenesis, consistent with human and knockout mouse phenotypes. The ADGRG2 nonsense mutation is absent in the largest population databases, ExAC and gnomAD. Analysis of the novel nonsense mutation in extended family members confirmed co-segregation of the mutation with OA in all affected males. The likely pathogenic nature of the mutation is supported by its truncation effect on the transmembrane domain and distinctive ultrasound results. The study demonstrates effectiveness of WES in discovering a genetic cause of azoospermia.

Published
2018

3. Functional study of a novel missense single‐nucleotide variant of NUP107 in two daughters of Mexican origin with premature ovarian insufficiency

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Ren, Yu, Diao, Feiyang, Katari, Sunita, Yatsenko, Svetlana, Jiang, Huaiyang, Wood‐Trageser, Michelle A, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Contraception/Reproduction, Rare Diseases, Human Genome, Biotechnology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adult, Amenorrhea, Animals, Base Sequence, Consanguinity, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Humans, Hypogonadism, Male, Menopause, Premature, Mice, Mutation, Missense, Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, Exome Sequencing, CRISPR, hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, infertility, Nup107, ovary, Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry, Clinical Sciences, Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
Abstract

BackgroundHypergonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder that usually presents with amenorrhea, atrophic ovaries, and low estrogen. Most cases of HH are idiopathic and nonsyndromic. Nucleoporin 107 (NUP107), a protein involved in transport between cytoplasm and nucleus with putative roles in meiosis/mitosis progression, was recently implicated as a cause of HH. We identified a NUP107 genetic variant in a nonconsanguineous family with two sisters affected with primary amenorrhea and HH, and generated a mouse model that carried the human variant.MethodsWe performed a high-resolution X-chromosome microarray and whole exome sequencing on parents and two sisters with HH to identify pathogenic variants. We generated a mouse model of candidate NUP107 variant using CRISPR/Cas9.ResultsWhole exome sequencing identified a novel and rare missense variant in the NUP107 gene (c.1063C>T, p.R355C) in both sisters with HH. In order to determine functional significance of this variant, we used CRISPR/Cas9 to introduce the human variant into the mouse genome. Mice with the homolog of the R355C variant, as well as the nine base pairs deletion in Nup107 had female subfertility.ConclusionsOur findings indicate that NUP107 R355C variant falls in the category of variant of unknown significance as the cause of HH and infertility.

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2018

4. Exome sequencing reveals MCM8 mutation underlies ovarian failure and chromosomal instability

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AlAsiri, Saleh, Basit, Sulman, Wood-Trageser, Michelle A, Yatsenko, Svetlana A, Jeffries, Elizabeth P, Surti, Urvashi, Ketterer, Deborah M, Afzal, Sibtain, Ramzan, Khushnooda, Haque, Muhammad Faiyaz-Ul, Jiang, Huaiyang, Trakselis, Michael A, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

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Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Brain Disorders, Clinical Research, Rare Diseases, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Chromosomal Instability, Consanguinity, DNA Repair, Exome, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Lod Score, Middle Aged, Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, Protein Binding, Medical and Health Sciences, Immunology, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Premature ovarian failure (POF) is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disorder that includes individuals with manifestations ranging from primary amenorrhea to loss of menstrual function prior to age 40. POF presents as hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and can be part of a syndrome or occur in isolation. Here, we studied 3 sisters with primary amenorrhea, hypothyroidism, and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism. The sisters were born to parents who are first cousins. SNP analysis and whole-exome sequencing revealed the presence of a pathogenic variant of the minichromosome maintenance 8 gene (MCM8, c.446C>G; p.P149R) located within a region of homozygosity that was present in the affected daughters but not in their unaffected sisters. Because MCM8 participates in homologous recombination and dsDNA break repair, we tested fibroblasts from the affected sisters for hypersensitivity to chromosomal breaks. Compared with fibroblasts from unaffected daughters, chromosomal break repair was deficient in fibroblasts from the affected individuals, likely due to inhibited recruitment of MCM8 p.P149R to sites of DNA damage. Our study identifies an autosomal recessive disorder caused by an MCM8 mutation that manifests with endocrine dysfunction and genomic instability.

Published
2015

5. Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

Author

Bradnam, Keith R., Fass, Joseph N., Alexandrov, Anton, Baranay, Paul, Bechner, Michael, Birol, İnanç, Boisvert, Sébastien, Chapman, Jarrod A., Chapuis, Guillaume, Chikhi, Rayan, Chitsaz, Hamidreza, Chou, Wen-Chi, Corbeil, Jacques, Del Fabbro, Cristian, Docking, T. Roderick, Durbin, Richard, Earl, Dent, Emrich, Scott, Fedotov, Pavel, Fonseca, Nuno A., Ganapathy, Ganeshkumar, Gibbs, Richard A., Gnerre, Sante, Godzaridis, Élénie, Goldstein, Steve, Haimel, Matthias, Hall, Giles, Haussler, David, Hiatt, Joseph B., Ho, Isaac Y., Howard, Jason, Hunt, Martin, Jackman, Shaun D., Jaffe, David B, Jarvis, Erich, Jiang, Huaiyang, Kazakov, Sergey, Kersey, Paul J., Kitzman, Jacob O., Knight, James R., Koren, Sergey, Lam, Tak-Wah, Lavenier, Dominique, Laviolette, François, Li, Yingrui, Li, Zhenyu, Liu, Binghang, Liu, Yue, Luo, Ruibang, MacCallum, Iain, MacManes, Matthew D, Maillet, Nicolas, Melnikov, Sergey, Vieira, Bruno Miguel, Naquin, Delphine, Ning, Zemin, Otto, Thomas D., Paten, Benedict, Paulo, Octávio S., Phillippy, Adam M., Pina-Martins, Francisco, Place, Michael, Przybylski, Dariusz, Qin, Xiang, Qu, Carson, Ribeiro, Filipe J, Richards, Stephen, Rokhsar, Daniel S., Ruby, J. Graham, Scalabrin, Simone, Schatz, Michael C., Schwartz, David C., Sergushichev, Alexey, Sharpe, Ted, Shaw, Timothy I., Shendure, Jay, Shi, Yujian, Simpson, Jared T., Song, Henry, Tsarev, Fedor, Vezzi, Francesco, Vicedomini, Riccardo, Wang, Jun, Worley, Kim C., Yin, Shuangye, Yiu, Siu-Ming, Yuan, Jianying, Zhang, Guojie, Zhang, Hao, Zhou, Shiguo, and Korf, Ian F.

Subjects
Quantitative Biology - Genomics
Abstract

Background - The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality, finished genome sequences remains challenging. Many genome assembly tools are available, but they differ greatly in terms of their performance (speed, scalability, hardware requirements, acceptance of newer read technologies) and in their final output (composition of assembled sequence). More importantly, it remains largely unclear how to best assess the quality of assembled genome sequences. The Assemblathon competitions are intended to assess current state-of-the-art methods in genome assembly. Results - In Assemblathon 2, we provided a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and snake). This resulted in a total of 43 submitted assemblies from 21 participating teams. We evaluated these assemblies using a combination of optical map data, Fosmid sequences, and several statistical methods. From over 100 different metrics, we chose ten key measures by which to assess the overall quality of the assemblies. Conclusions - Many current genome assemblers produced useful assemblies, containing a significant representation of their genes, regulatory sequences, and overall genome structure. However, the high degree of variability between the entries suggests that there is still much room for improvement in the field of genome assembly and that approaches which work well in assembling the genome of one species may not necessarily work well for another., Comment: Additional files available at http://korflab.ucdavis.edu/Datasets/Assemblathon/Assemblathon2/Additional_files/ Major changes 1. Accessions for the 3 read data sets have now been included 2. New file: spreadsheet containing details of all Study, Sample, Run, & Experiment identifiers 3. Made miscellaneous changes to address reviewers comments. DOIs added to GigaDB datasets

Published
2013
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6. MCM9 Mutations Are Associated with Ovarian Failure, Short Stature, and Chromosomal Instability

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Wood-Trageser, Michelle A, Gurbuz, Fatih, Yatsenko, Svetlana A, Jeffries, Elizabeth P, Kotan, L Damla, Surti, Urvashi, Ketterer, Deborah M, Matic, Jelena, Chipkin, Jacqueline, Jiang, Huaiyang, Trakselis, Michael A, Topaloglu, A Kemal, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Rare Diseases, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Biotechnology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Abnormal Karyotype, Adolescent, Adult, Amenorrhea, Base Sequence, Cell Line, Chromosomal Instability, Consanguinity, DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded, DNA Repair, Dwarfism, Exome, Female, Homologous Recombination, Homozygote, Humans, Middle Aged, Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Pedigree, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, RNA Splice Sites, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Young Adult, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Premature ovarian failure (POF) is genetically heterogeneous and manifests as hypergonadotropic hypogonadism either as part of a syndrome or in isolation. We studied two unrelated consanguineous families with daughters exhibiting primary amenorrhea, short stature, and a 46,XX karyotype. A combination of SNP arrays, comparative genomic hybridization arrays, and whole-exome sequencing analyses identified homozygous pathogenic variants in MCM9, a gene implicated in homologous recombination and repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. In one family, the MCM9 c.1732+2T>C variant alters a splice donor site, resulting in abnormal alternative splicing and truncated forms of MCM9 that are unable to be recruited to sites of DNA damage. In the second family, MCM9 c.394C>T (p.Arg132(∗)) results in a predicted loss of functional MCM9. Repair of chromosome breaks was impaired in lymphocytes from affected, but not unaffected, females in both families, consistent with MCM9 function in homologous recombination. Autosomal-recessive variants in MCM9 cause a genomic-instability syndrome associated with hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and short stature. Preferential sensitivity of germline meiosis to MCM9 functional deficiency and compromised DNA repair in the somatic component most likely account for the ovarian failure and short stature.

Published
2014

7. Comparative validation of the D. melanogaster modENCODE transcriptome annotation

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Chen, Zhen-Xia, Sturgill, David, Qu, Jiaxin, Jiang, Huaiyang, Park, Soo, Boley, Nathan, Suzuki, Ana Maria, Fletcher, Anthony R, Plachetzki, David C, FitzGerald, Peter C, Artieri, Carlo G, Atallah, Joel, Barmina, Olga, Brown, James B, Blankenburg, Kerstin P, Clough, Emily, Dasgupta, Abhijit, Gubbala, Sai, Han, Yi, Jayaseelan, Joy C, Kalra, Divya, Kim, Yoo-Ah, Kovar, Christie L, Lee, Sandra L, Li, Mingmei, Malley, James D, Malone, John H, Mathew, Tittu, Mattiuzzo, Nicolas R, Munidasa, Mala, Muzny, Donna M, Ongeri, Fiona, Perales, Lora, Przytycka, Teresa M, Pu, Ling-Ling, Robinson, Garrett, Thornton, Rebecca L, Saada, Nehad, Scherer, Steven E, Smith, Harold E, Vinson, Charles, Warner, Crystal B, Worley, Kim C, Wu, Yuan-Qing, Zou, Xiaoyan, Cherbas, Peter, Kellis, Manolis, Eisen, Michael B, Piano, Fabio, Kionte, Karin, Fitch, David H, Sternberg, Paul W, Cutter, Asher D, Duff, Michael O, Hoskins, Roger A, Graveley, Brenton R, Gibbs, Richard A, Bickel, Peter J, Kopp, Artyom, Carninci, Piero, Celniker, Susan E, Oliver, Brian, and Richards, Stephen

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Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genetics, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Generic health relevance, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Computational Biology, Drosophila melanogaster, Evolution, Molecular, Exons, Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Genome, Insect, Humans, Male, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Nucleotide Motifs, Phylogeny, Position-Specific Scoring Matrices, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA Editing, RNA Splice Sites, RNA Splicing, Reproducibility of Results, Transcription Initiation Site, Transcriptome, Medical and Health Sciences, Bioinformatics
Abstract

Accurate gene model annotation of reference genomes is critical for making them useful. The modENCODE project has improved the D. melanogaster genome annotation by using deep and diverse high-throughput data. Since transcriptional activity that has been evolutionarily conserved is likely to have an advantageous function, we have performed large-scale interspecific comparisons to increase confidence in predicted annotations. To support comparative genomics, we filled in divergence gaps in the Drosophila phylogeny by generating draft genomes for eight new species. For comparative transcriptome analysis, we generated mRNA expression profiles on 81 samples from multiple tissues and developmental stages of 15 Drosophila species, and we performed cap analysis of gene expression in D. melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. We also describe conservation of four distinct core promoter structures composed of combinations of elements at three positions. Overall, each type of genomic feature shows a characteristic divergence rate relative to neutral models, highlighting the value of multispecies alignment in annotating a target genome that should prove useful in the annotation of other high priority genomes, especially human and other mammalian genomes that are rich in noncoding sequences. We report that the vast majority of elements in the annotation are evolutionarily conserved, indicating that the annotation will be an important springboard for functional genetic testing by the Drosophila community.

Published
2014

8. The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

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Chipman, Ariel D, Ferrier, David EK, Brena, Carlo, Qu, Jiaxin, Hughes, Daniel ST, Schröder, Reinhard, Torres-Oliva, Montserrat, Znassi, Nadia, Jiang, Huaiyang, Almeida, Francisca C, Alonso, Claudio R, Apostolou, Zivkos, Aqrawi, Peshtewani, Arthur, Wallace, Barna, Jennifer CJ, Blankenburg, Kerstin P, Brites, Daniela, Capella-Gutiérrez, Salvador, Coyle, Marcus, Dearden, Peter K, Du Pasquier, Louis, Duncan, Elizabeth J, Ebert, Dieter, Eibner, Cornelius, Erikson, Galina, Evans, Peter D, Extavour, Cassandra G, Francisco, Liezl, Gabaldón, Toni, Gillis, William J, Goodwin-Horn, Elizabeth A, Green, Jack E, Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis JP, Gubbala, Sai, Guigó, Roderic, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Havlak, Paul, Hayden, Luke, Helbing, Sophie, Holder, Michael, Hui, Jerome HL, Hunn, Julia P, Hunnekuhl, Vera S, Jackson, LaRonda, Javaid, Mehwish, Jhangiani, Shalini N, Jiggins, Francis M, Jones, Tamsin E, Kaiser, Tobias S, Kalra, Divya, Kenny, Nathan J, Korchina, Viktoriya, Kovar, Christie L, Kraus, F Bernhard, Lapraz, François, Lee, Sandra L, Lv, Jie, Mandapat, Christigale, Manning, Gerard, Mariotti, Marco, Mata, Robert, Mathew, Tittu, Neumann, Tobias, Newsham, Irene, Ngo, Dinh N, Ninova, Maria, Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Ongeri, Fiona, Palmer, William J, Patil, Shobha, Patraquim, Pedro, Pham, Christopher, Pu, Ling-Ling, Putman, Nicholas H, Rabouille, Catherine, Ramos, Olivia Mendivil, Rhodes, Adelaide C, Robertson, Helen E, Robertson, Hugh M, Ronshaugen, Matthew, Rozas, Julio, Saada, Nehad, Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro, Scherer, Steven E, Schurko, Andrew M, Siggens, Kenneth W, Simmons, DeNard, Stief, Anna, Stolle, Eckart, Telford, Maximilian J, Tessmar-Raible, Kristin, Thornton, Rebecca, van der Zee, Maurijn, von Haeseler, Arndt, Williams, James M, Willis, Judith H, Wu, Yuanqing, and Zou, Xiaoyan

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Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genetics, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Prevention, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Underpinning research, Generic health relevance, Animals, Arthropods, Circadian Rhythm Signaling Peptides and Proteins, DNA Methylation, Evolution, Molecular, Female, Genome, Genome, Mitochondrial, Hormones, Male, Multigene Family, Phylogeny, Polymorphism, Genetic, Protein Kinases, RNA, Untranslated, Receptors, Odorant, Selenoproteins, Sex Chromosomes, Synteny, Transcription Factors, Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Abstract

Myriapods (e.g., centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality independently of insects. Myriapoda is the only arthropod class not represented by a sequenced genome. We present an analysis of the genome of the centipede Strigamia maritima. It retains a compact genome that has undergone less gene loss and shuffling than previously sequenced arthropods, and many orthologues of genes conserved from the bilaterian ancestor that have been lost in insects. Our analysis locates many genes in conserved macro-synteny contexts, and many small-scale examples of gene clustering. We describe several examples where S. maritima shows different solutions from insects to similar problems. The insect olfactory receptor gene family is absent from S. maritima, and olfaction in air is likely effected by expansion of other receptor gene families. For some genes S. maritima has evolved paralogues to generate coding sequence diversity, where insects use alternate splicing. This is most striking for the Dscam gene, which in Drosophila generates more than 100,000 alternate splice forms, but in S. maritima is encoded by over 100 paralogues. We see an intriguing linkage between the absence of any known photosensory proteins in a blind organism and the additional absence of canonical circadian clock genes. The phylogenetic position of myriapods allows us to identify where in arthropod phylogeny several particular molecular mechanisms and traits emerged. For example, we conclude that juvenile hormone signalling evolved with the emergence of the exoskeleton in the arthropods and that RR-1 containing cuticle proteins evolved in the lineage leading to Mandibulata. We also identify when various gene expansions and losses occurred. The genome of S. maritima offers us a unique glimpse into the ancestral arthropod genome, while also displaying many adaptations to its specific life history.

Published
2014

9. Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

Author

Bradnam, Keith R, Fass, Joseph N, Alexandrov, Anton, Baranay, Paul, Bechner, Michael, Birol, Inanç, Boisvert, Sébastien, Chapman, Jarrod A, Chapuis, Guillaume, Chikhi, Rayan, Chitsaz, Hamidreza, Chou, Wen-Chi, Corbeil, Jacques, Del Fabbro, Cristian, Docking, T, Durbin, Richard, Earl, Dent, Emrich, Scott, Fedotov, Pavel, Fonseca, Nuno A, Ganapathy, Ganeshkumar, Gibbs, Richard A, Gnerre, Sante, Godzaridis, Élénie, Goldstein, Steve, Haimel, Matthias, Hall, Giles, Haussler, David, Hiatt, Joseph B, Ho, Isaac Y, Howard, Jason, Hunt, Martin, Jackman, Shaun D, Jaffe, David B, Jarvis, Erich D, Jiang, Huaiyang, Kazakov, Sergey, Kersey, Paul J, Kitzman, Jacob O, Knight, James R, Koren, Sergey, Lam, Tak-Wah, Lavenier, Dominique, Laviolette, François, Li, Yingrui, Li, Zhenyu, Liu, Binghang, Liu, Yue, Luo, Ruibang, MacCallum, Iain, MacManes, Matthew D, Maillet, Nicolas, Melnikov, Sergey, Naquin, Delphine, Ning, Zemin, Otto, Thomas D, Paten, Benedict, Paulo, Octávio S, Phillippy, Adam M, Pina-Martins, Francisco, Place, Michael, Przybylski, Dariusz, Qin, Xiang, Qu, Carson, Ribeiro, Filipe J, Richards, Stephen, Rokhsar, Daniel S, Ruby, J, Scalabrin, Simone, Schatz, Michael C, Schwartz, David C, Sergushichev, Alexey, Sharpe, Ted, Shaw, Timothy I, Shendure, Jay, Shi, Yujian, Simpson, Jared T, Song, Henry, Tsarev, Fedor, Vezzi, Francesco, Vicedomini, Riccardo, Vieira, Bruno M, Wang, Jun, Worley, Kim C, Yin, Shuangye, Yiu, Siu-Ming, Yuan, Jianying, Zhang, Guojie, Zhang, Hao, Zhou, Shiguo, and Korf, Ian F

Abstract

Abstract Background The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality, finished genome sequences remains challenging. Many genome assembly tools are available, but they differ greatly in terms of their performance (speed, scalability, hardware requirements, acceptance of newer read technologies) and in their final output (composition of assembled sequence). More importantly, it remains largely unclear how to best assess the quality of assembled genome sequences. The Assemblathon competitions are intended to assess current state-of-the-art methods in genome assembly. Results In Assemblathon 2, we provided a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and snake). This resulted in a total of 43 submitted assemblies from 21 participating teams. We evaluated these assemblies using a combination of optical map data, Fosmid sequences, and several statistical methods. From over 100 different metrics, we chose ten key measures by which to assess the overall quality of the assemblies. Conclusions Many current genome assemblers produced useful assemblies, containing a significant representation of their genes and overall genome structure. However, the high degree of variability between the entries suggests that there is still much room for improvement in the field of genome assembly and that approaches which work well in assembling the genome of one species may not necessarily work well for another.

Published
2013

13. Exome sequencing reveals MCM8 mutation underlies ovarian failure and chromosomal instability

Author

Al Asiri, Saleh, Basit, Sulman, Wood-Trageser, Michelle A., Yatsenko, Svetlana A., Jeffries, Elizabeth P., Surti, Urvashi, Ketterer, Deborah M., Afzal, Sibtain, Ramzan, Khushnooda, Haque, Faiyaz-Ul, Jiang, Huaiyang, Trakselis, Michael A., and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

Subjects
Gene mutations -- Health aspects -- Research, Ovarian diseases -- Risk factors -- Genetic aspects -- Research, Exome sequencing -- Usage, Health care industry
Abstract

Premature ovarian failure (POF) is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disorder that includes individuals with manifestations ranging from primary amenorrhea to loss of menstrual function prior to age 40. POF presents as hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and can be part of a syndrome or occur in isolation. Here, we studied 3 sisters with primary amenorrhea, hypothyroidism, and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism. The sisters were born to parents who are first cousins. SNP analysis and whole-exome sequencing revealed the presence of a pathogenic variant of the minichromosome maintenance 8 gene (MCM8, c.446C > G; p.P149R) located within a region of homozygosity that was present in the affected daughters but not in their unaffected sisters. Because MCM8 participates in homologous recombination and dsDNA break repair, we tested fibroblasts from the affected sisters for hypersensitivity to chromosomal breaks. Compared with fibroblasts from unaffected daughters, chromosomal break repair was deficient in fibroblasts from the affected individuals, likely due to inhibited recruitment of MCM8 p.P149R to sites of DNA damage. Our study identifies an autosomal recessive disorder caused by an MCM8 mutation that manifests with endocrine dysfunction and genomic instability., Introduction Premature ovarian failure (POF) affects 1%-4% of women and is defined as a cessation of menses prior to age 40, with elevated follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and low serum estradiol [...]

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2015
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14. Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

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Birney, Ewan, Stamatoyannopoulos, John A., Dutta, Anindya, Guigo, Roderic, Gingeras, Thomas R., Margulies, Elliott H., Weng, Zhiping, Snyder, Michael, Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Thurman, Robert E., Kuehn, Michael S., Taylor, Christopher M., Neph, Shane, Koch, Christoph M., Asthana, Saurabh, Malhotra, Ankit, Adzhubei, Ivan, Greenbaum, Jason A., Andrews, Robert M., Flicek, Paul, Boyle, Patrick J., Cao, Hua, Carter, Nigel P., Clelland, Gayle K., Davis, Sean, Day, Nathan, Dhami, Pawandeep, Dillon, Shane C., Dorschner, Michael O., Fiegler, Heike, Giresi, Paul G., Goldy, Jeff, Hawrylycz, Michael, Haydock, Andrew, Humbert, Richard, James, Keith D., Johnson, Brett E., Johnson, Ericka M., Frum, Tristan T., Rosenzweig, Elizabeth R., Karnani, Neerja, Lee, Kirsten, Lefebvre, Gregory C., Navas, Patrick A., Neri, Fidencio, Parker, Stephen C. J., Sabo, Peter J., Sandstrom, Richard, Shafer, Anthony, Vetrie, David, Weaver, Molly, Wilcox, Sarah, Yu1, Man, Collins, Francis S., Dekker, Job, Lieb, Jason D., Tullius, Thomas D., Crawford, Gregory E., Sunyaev, Shamil, Noble, William S., Dunham, Ian, Denoeud, France, Reymond, Alexandre, Kapranov, Philipp, Rozowsky, Joel, Zheng, Deyou, Castelo, Robert, Frankish, Adam, Harrow, Jennifer, Ghosh, Srinka, Sandelin, Albin, Hofacker, Ivo L., Baertsch, Robert, Keefe, Damian, Dike, Sujit, Cheng, Jill, Hirsch, Heather A., Sekinger, Edward A., Lagarde, Julien, Abril, Josep F., Shahab, Atif, Flamm, Christoph, Fried, Claudia, Hackermuller, Jorg, Hertel, Jana, Lindemeyer, Manja, Missal, Kristin, Tanzer, Andrea, Washietl, Stefan, Korbel, Jan, Emanuelsson, Olof, Pedersen, Jakob S., Holroyd, Nancy, Taylor, Ruth, Swarbreck, David, Matthews, Nicholas, Dickson, Mark C., Thomas, Daryl J., Weirauch, Matthew T., Gilbert, James, Drenkow, Jorg, Bell, Ian, Zhao, XiaoDong, Srinivasan, K.G., Sung, Wing-Kin, Ooi, Hong Sain, Chiu, Kuo Ping, Foissac, Sylvain, Alioto, Tyler, Brent, Michael, Pachter, Lior, Tress, Michael L., Valencia, Alfonso, Choo, Siew Woh, Choo, Chiou Yu, Ucla, Catherine, Manzano, Caroline, Wyss, Carine, Cheung, Evelyn, Clark, Taane G., Brown, James B., Ganesh, Madhavan, Patel, Sandeep, Tammana, Hari, Chrast, Jacqueline, Henrichsen, Charlotte N., Kai, Chikatoshi, Kawai, Jun, Nagalakshmi, Ugrappa, Wu, Jiaqian, Lian, Zheng, Lian, Jin, Newburger, Peter, Zhang, Xueqing, Bickel, Peter, Mattick, John S., Carninci, Piero, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, Weissman, Sherman, Hubbard, Tim, Myers, Richard M., Rogers, Jane, Stadler, Peter F., Lowe, Todd M., Wei, Chia-Lin, Ruan, Yijun, Struhl, Kevin, Gerstein, Mark, Antonarakis, Stylianos E., Fu, Yutao, Green, Eric D., Karaoz, Ulaş, Siepel, Adam, Taylor, James, Liefer, Laura A., Wetterstrand, Kris A., Good, Peter J., Feingold, Elise A., Guyer, Mark S., Cooper, Gregory M., Asimenos, George, Dewey, Colin N., Hou, Minmei, Nikolaev, Sergey, Montoya-Burgos, Juan I., Loytynoja, Ari, Whelan, Simon, Pardi, Fabio, Massingham, Tim, Huang, Haiyan, Zhang, Nancy R., Holmes, Ian, Mullikin, James C., Ureta-Vidal, Abel, Paten, Benedict, Seringhaus, Michael, Church, Deanna, Rosenbloom, Kate, Kent, W. James, Stone, Eric A., Batzoglou, Serafim, Goldman, Nick, Hardison, Ross C., Haussler, David, Miller, Webb, Sidow, Arend, Trinklein, Nathan D., Zhang, Zhengdong D., Barrera, Leah, Stuart, Rhona, King, David C., Ameur, Adam, Enroth, Stefan, Bieda, Mark C., Kim, Jonghwan, Bhinge, Akshay A., Jiang, Nan, Liu, Jun, Yao, Fei, Vega, Vinsensius B., Lee, Charlie W.H., Ng, Patrick, Yang, Annie, Moqtaderi, Zarmik, Zhu, Zhou, Xu, Xiaoqin, Squazzo, Sharon, Oberley, Matthew J., Inman, David, Singer, Michael A., Richmond, Todd A., Munn, Kyle J., Rada-Iglesias, Alvaro, Wallerman, Ola, Komorowski, Jan, Fowler, Joanna C., Couttet, Phillippe, Bruce, Alexander W., Dovey, Oliver M., Ellis, Peter D., Langford, Cordelia F., Nix, David A., Euskirchen, Ghia, Hartman, Stephen, Urban, Alexander E., Kraus, Peter, Van Calcar, Sara, Heintzman, Nate, Hoon Kim, Tae, Wang, Kun, Qu, Chunxu, Hon, Gary, Luna, Rosa, Glass, Christopher K., Rosenfeld, M. Geoff, Aldred, Shelley Force, Cooper, Sara J., Halees, Anason, Lin, Jane M., Shulha, Hennady P., Zhang, Xiaoling, Xu, Mousheng, Haidar, Jaafar N. S., Yu, Yong, Birney*, Ewan, Iyer, Vishwanath R., Green, Roland D., Wadelius, Claes, Farnham, Peggy J., Ren, Bing, Harte, Rachel A., Hinrichs, Angie S., Trumbower, Heather, Clawson, Hiram, Hillman-Jackson, Jennifer, Zweig, Ann S., Smith, Kayla, Thakkapallayil, Archana, Barber, Galt, Kuhn, Robert M., Karolchik, Donna, Armengol, Lluis, Bird, Christine P., de Bakker, Paul I. W., Kern, Andrew D., Lopez-Bigas, Nuria, Martin, Joel D., Stranger, Barbara E., Woodroffe, Abigail, Davydov, Eugene, Dimas, Antigone, Eyras, Eduardo, Hallgrimsdottir, Ingileif B., Huppert, Julian, Zody, Michael C., Abecasis, Goncalo R., Estivill, Xavier, Bouffard, Gerard G., Guan, Xiaobin, Hansen, Nancy F., Idol, Jacquelyn R., Maduro, Valerie V.B., Maskeri, Baishali, McDowell, Jennifer C., Park, Morgan, Thomas, Pamela J., Young, Alice C., Blakesley, Robert W., Baylor College of Medicine, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Muzny, Donna M., Sodergren, Erica, Wheeler, David A., Worley, Kim C., Jiang, Huaiyang, Weinstock, George M., Gibbs, Richard A., Graves, Tina, Fulton, Robert, Mardis, Elaine R., Wilson, Richard K., Clamp, Michele, Cuff, James, Gnerre, Sante, Jaffe, David B., Chang, Jean L., Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Lander, Eric S., Koriabine, Maxim, Nefedov, Mikhail, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, Yoshinaga, Yuko, Zhu, Baoli, and de Jong, Pieter J.

Subjects
Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Author(s): The ENCODE Project Consortium; Analysis Coordination; Ewan Birney (corresponding author) [1]; John A. Stamatoyannopoulos (corresponding author) [2]; Anindya Dutta (corresponding author) [3]; Roderic Guigó (corresponding author) [4, 5]; Thomas [...]

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2007
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15. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

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Weinstock, George M., Robinson, Gene E., Gibbs, Richard A., Worley, Kim C., Evans, Jay D., Maleszka, Ryszard, Robertson, Hugh M., Weaver, Daniel B., Beye, Martin, Bork, Peer, Elsik, Christine G., Hartfelder, Klaus, Hunt, Greg J., Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Amdam, Gro V., Bitondi, Mrcia M. G., Collins, Anita M., Cristino, Alexandre S., Michael, H., Lattorff, G., Lobo, Carlos H., Moritz, Robin F. A., Nunes, Francis M. F., Page, Jr, Robert E., Simoes, Zil L. P., Wheeler, Diana, Carninci, Piero, Fukuda, Shiro, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, Kai, Chikatoshi, Kawai, Jun, Sakazume, Naoko, Sasaki, Daisuke, Tagami, Michihira, Albert, Stefan, Baggerman, Geert, Beggs, Kyle T., Bloch, Guy, Cazzamali, Giuseppe, Cohen, Mira, Drapeau, Mark David, Eisenhardt, Dorothea, Emore, Christine, Ewing, Michael A., Fahrbach, Susan E., Foret, Sylvain, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P., Hauser, Frank, Hummon, Amanda B., Huybrechts, Jurgen, Jones, Andrew K., Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Kaplan, Noam, Kucharski, Robert, Leboulle, Gerard, Linial, Michal, Littleton, J. Troy, Mercer, Alison R., Richmond, Timothy A., RodriguezZas, Sandra L., Rubin, Elad B., Sattelle, David B., Schlipalius, David, Schoofs, Liliane, Shemesh, Yair, Sweedler, Jonathan V., Velarde, Rodrigo, Verleyen, Peter, Vierstraete, Evy, Williamson, Michael R., Ament, Seth A., Brown, Susan J., Corona, Miguel, Dearden, Peter K., Dunn, W. Augustine, Elekonich, Michelle M., Fujiyuki, Tomoko, Gattermeier, Irene, Gempe, Tanja, Hasselmann, Martin, Kage, Eriko, Kamikouchi, Azusa, Kubo, Takeo, Kunieda, Takekazu, Lorenzen, Marce, Milshina, Natalia V., Morioka, Mizue, Ohashi, Kazuaki, Overbeek, Ross, Ross, Christian A., Schioett, Morten, Shippy, Teresa, Takeuchi, Hideaki, Toth, Amy L., Willis, Judith H., Wilson, Megan J., Gordon, Karl H. J., Letunic, Ivica, Hackett, Kevin, Peterson, Jane, Felsenfeld, Adam, Guyer, Mark, Solignac, Michel, Agarwala, Richa, Cornuet, Jean Marie, Monnerot, Monique, Mougel, Florence, Reese, Justin T., Vautrin, Dominique, Gillespie, Joseph J., Cannone, Jamie J., Gutell, Robin R., Johnston, J. Spencer, Eisen, Michael B., Iyer, Venky N., Iyer, Vivek, Kosarev, Peter, Mackey, Aaron J., Solovyev, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Aronstein, Katherine A., Bilikova, Katarina, Chen, Yan Ping, Clark, Andrew G., Decanini, Laura I., Gelbart, William M., Hetru, Charles, Hultmark, Dan, Imler, Jean-Luc, Jiang, Haobo, Kanost, Michael, Kimura, Kiyoshi, Lazzaro, Brian P., Lopez, Dawn L., Simuth, Jozef, Thompson, Graham J., Zou, Zhen, De Jong, Pieter, Sodergren, Erica, Cs[u dbl acute]ros, Miklos, Milosavljevic, Aleksandar, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, Richards, Stephen, Shu, Chung-Li, Duret, Laurent, Elhaik, Eran, Graur, Dan, Anzola, Juan M., Campbell, Kathryn S., Childs, Kevin L., Collinge, Derek, Crosby, Madeline A., Dickens, C. Michael, Gramates, L. Sian, Grozinger, Christina M., Jones, Peter L., Jorda, Mireia, Ling, Xu, Matthews, Beverly B., Miller, Jonathan, Mizzen, Craig, Peinado, Miguel A., Reid, Jeffrey G., Russo, Susan M., Schroeder, Andrew J., St Pierre, Susan E., Wang, Ying, Zhou, Pinglei, Jiang, Huaiyang, Kitts, Paul, Ruef, Barbara, Venkatraman, Anand, Zhang, Lan, Aquino-Perez, Gildardo, Whitfield, Charles W., Behura, Susanta K., Berlocher, Stewart H., Sheppard, Walter S., Smith, Deborah R., Suarez, Andrew V., Tsutsui, Neil D., Wei, Xuehong, Wheeler, David, Havlak, Paul, Li, Bingshan, Liu, Yue, Jolivet, Angela, Lee, Sandra, Nazareth, Lynne V., Pu, Ling-Ling, Thorn, Rachel, Stolc, Viktor, Newman, Thomas, Samanta, Manoj, Tongprasit, Waraporn A., Claudianos, Charles, Berenbaum, May R., Biswas, Sunita, de Graaf, Dirk C., Feyereisen, Rene, Johnson, Reed M., Oakeshott, John G., Ranson, Hilary, Schuler, Mary A., Muzny, Donna, Chacko, Joseph, Davis, Clay, Dinh, Huyen, Gill, Rachel, Hernandez, Judith, Hines, Sandra, Hume, Jennifer, Jackson, LaRonda, Kovar, Christie, Lewis, Lora, Miner, George, Morgan, Margaret, Nguyen, Ngoc, Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Paul, Heidi, Santibanez, Jireh, Savery, Glenford, Svatek, Amanda, Villasana, Donna, and Wright, Rita

Subjects
Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

Author(s): The Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium; Overall project leadership: ; George M. Weinstock [1, 2]; Gene E. Robinson [7, 9, 13, 14]; Principal investigators: ; Richard A. Gibbs [1, 2]; [...]

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2006
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16. The genome sequence of Mannheimia haemolytica A1: insights into virulence, natural competence, and Pasteurellaceae phylogeny

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Gioia, Jason, Qin, Xiang, Jiang, Huaiyang, Clinkenbeard, Kenneth, Lo, Reggie, Liu, Yamei, Fox, George E., Yerrapragada, Shailaja, McLeod, Michael P., McNeill, Thomas Z., Hemphill, Lisa, Sodergren, Erica, Wang, Qiaoyan, Muzny, Donna M., Homsi, Farah J., Weinstock, George M., and Highlander, Sarah K.

Subjects
Phylogeny -- Research, Virulence (Microbiology) -- Research, Biological sciences
Abstract

The draft genome sequence of Mannheimia haemolytica A1, the causative agent of bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC), is presented. Strain ATCC BAA-410, isolated from the lung of a calf with BRDC, was the DNA source. The annotated genome includes 2,839 coding sequences, 1,966 of which were assigned a function and 436 of which are unique to M. haemolytica. Through genome annotation many features of interest were identified, including bacteriophages and genes related to virulence, natural competence, and transcriptional regulation. In addition to previously described virulence factors, M. haemolytica encodes adhesins, including the filamentous hemagglutinin FhaB and two trimeric autotransporter adhesins. Two dual-function immunoglobulin-protease/adhesins are also present, as is a third immunoglobulin protease. Genes related to iron acquisition and drug resistance were identified and are likely important for survival in the host and virulence. Analysis of the genome indicates that M. haemolytica is naturally competent, as genes for natural competence and DNA uptake signal sequences (USS) are present. Comparison of competence loci and USS in other species in the family Pasteurellaceae indicates that M. haemolytica, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, and Haemophilus ducreyi form a lineage distinct from other Pasteurellaceae. This observation was supported by a phylogenetic analysis using sequences of predicted housekeeping genes.

Published
2006

17. Chromosome rearrangement and diversification of Francisella tularensis revealed by the type B (OSU18) genome sequence

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Petrosino, Joseph F., Xiang, Qin, Karpathy, Sandor E., Jiang, Huaiyang, Yerrapragada, Shailaja, Liu, Yamei, Gioia, Jason, Hemphill, Lisa, Gonzalez, Arely, Raghavan, T.M., Uzman, Akif, Fox, George E., Highlander, Sarah, Reichard, Mason, Morton, Rebecca J., Clinkenbeard, Kenneth D., and Weinstock, George M.

Subjects
Nucleotide sequence -- Research, Gene mutations -- Research, Genetic research, Biological sciences
Abstract

The [gamma]-proteobacterium Francisella tularensis is one of the most infectious human pathogens, and the highly virulent organism F. tularensis subsp, tularensis (type A) and less virulent organism F. tularensis subsp. holarctica (type B) are most commonly associated with significant disease in humans and animals. Here we report the complete genome sequence and annotation for a low-passage type B strain (OSU18) isolated from a dead beaver found near Red Rock, Okla., in 1978. A comparison of the F. tularensis subsp, holarctica sequence with that of F. tularensis subsp, tularensis strain Schu4 (P. Larsson et al., Nat. Genet. 37:153-159, 2005) highlighted genetic differences that may underlie different pathogenicity phenotypes and the evolutionary relationship between type A and type B strains. Despite extensive DNA sequence identity, the most significant difference between type A and type B isolates is the striking amount of genomic rearrangement that exists between the strains. All but two rearrangements can be attributed to homologous recombination occurring between two prominent insertion elements, ISFtu1 and ISFtu2. Numerous pseudogenes have been found in the genomes and are likely contributors to the difference in virulence between the strains. In contrast, no rearrangements have been observed between the OSU18 genome and the genome of the type B live vaccine strain (LVS), and only 448 polymorphisms have been found within non-transposase-coding sequences whose homologs are intact in OSU18. Nonconservative differences between the two strains likely include the LVS attenuating mutation(s).

Published
2006

18. Complete genome sequence of Rickettsia typhi and comparison with sequences of other rickettsiae

Author

McLeod, Michael P., Qin, Xiang, Karpathy, Sandor E., Gioia, Jason, Highlander, Sarah K., Fox, George E., McNeill, Thomas Z., Jiang, Huaiyang, Muzny, Donna, Jacob, Leni S., Hawes, Alicia C., Sodergren, Erica, Gill, Rachel, Hume, Jennifer, Morgan, Maggie, Fan, Guangwei, Amin, Anita G., Gibbs, Richard A., Hong, Chao, Yu, Xue-jie, Walker, David H., and Weinstock, George M.

Subjects
Rickettsia -- Research, Genomes -- Research, Bacteriology -- Research, Biological sciences
Abstract

Rickettsia typhi, the causative agent of murine typhus, is an obligate intracellular bacterium with a life cycle involving both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. Here we present the complete genome sequence of R. typhi (1,111,496 bp) and compare it to the two published rickettsial genome sequences: R. prowazekii and R. conorii. We identified 877 genes in R. typhi encoding 3 rRNAs, 33 tRNAs, 3 noncoding RNAs, and 838 proteins, 3 of which are frameshifts. In addition, we discovered more than 40 pseudogenes, including the entire cytochrome c oxidase system. The three rickettsial genomes share 775 genes: 23 are found only in R. prowazekii and R. typhi, 15 are found only in R. conorii and R. typhi, and 24 are unique to R. typhi. Although most of the genes are colinear, there is a 35-kb inversion in gene order, which is close to the replication terminus, in R. typhi, compared to R. prowazekii and R. conorii. In addition, we found a 124-kb R. typhi-specific inversion, starting 19 kb from the origin of replication, compared to R. prowazekii and R. conorii. Inversions in this region are also seen in the unpublished genome sequences of R. sibirica and R. rickettsii, indicating that this region is a hot spot for rearrangements. Genome comparisons also revealed a 12-kb insertion in the R. prowazekii genome, relative to R. typhi and R. conorii, which appears to have occurred after the typhus (R. prowazekii and R. typhi) and spotted fever (R. conorii) groups diverged. The three-way comparison allowed further in silico analysis of the SpoT split genes, leading us to propose that the stringent response system is still functional in these rickettsiae.

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2004

19. A framework for human microbiome research

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Methé, Barbara A., Nelson, Karen E., Pop, Mihai, Creasy, Heather H., Giglio, Michelle G., Huttenhower, Curtis, Gevers, Dirk, Petrosino, Joseph F., Abubucker, Sahar, Badger, Jonathan H., Chinwalla, Asif T., Earl, Ashlee M., FitzGerald, Michael G., Fulton, Robert S., Hallsworth-Pepin, Kymberlie, Lobos, Elizabeth A., Madupu, Ramana, Magrini, Vincent, Martin, John C., Mitreva, Makedonka, Muzny, Donna M., Sodergren, Erica J., Versalovic, James, Wollam, Aye M., Worley, Kim C., Wortman, Jennifer R., Young, Sarah K., Zeng, Qiandong, Aagaard, Kjersti M., Abolude, Olukemi O., Allen-Vercoe, Emma, Alm, Eric J., Alvarado, Lucia, Andersen, Gary L., Anderson, Scott, Appelbaum, Elizabeth, Arachchi, Harindra M., Armitage, Gary, Arze, Cesar A., Ayvaz, Tulin, Baker, Carl C., Begg, Lisa, Belachew, Tsegahiwot, Bhonagiri, Veena, Bihan, Monika, Blaser, Martin J., Bloom, Toby, Bonazzi, Vivien R., Brooks, Paul, Buck, Gregory A., Buhay, Christian J., Busam, Dana A., Campbell, Joseph L., Canon, Shane R., Cantarel, Brandi L., Chain, Patrick S., Chen, I-Min A., Chen, Lei, Chhibba, Shaila, Chu, Ken, Ciulla, Dawn M., Clemente, Jose C., Clifton, Sandra W., Conlan, Sean, Crabtree, Jonathan, Cutting, Mary A., Davidovics, Noam J., Davis, Catherine C., DeSantis, Todd Z., Deal, Carolyn, Delehaunty, Kimberley D., Dewhirst, Floyd E., Deych, Elena, Ding, Yan, Dooling, David J., Dugan, Shannon P., Dunne, Michael W., Jr, Durkin, Scott A., Edgar, Robert C., Erlich, Rachel L., Farmer, Candace N., Farrell, Ruth M., Faust, Karoline, Feldgarden, Michael, Felix, Victor M., Fisher, Sheila, Fodor, Anthony A., Forney, Larry, Foster, Leslie, Di Francesco, Valentina, Friedman, Jonathan, Friedrich, Dennis C., Fronick, Catrina C., Fulton, Lucinda L., Gao, Hongyu, Garcia, Nathalia, Giannoukos, Georgia, Giblin, Christina, Giovanni, Maria Y., Goldberg, Jonathan M., Goll, Johannes, Gonzalez, Antonio, Griggs, Allison, Gujja, Sharvari, Haas, Brian J., Hamilton, Holli A., Harris, Emily L., Hepburn, Theresa A., Herter, Brandi, Hoffmann, Diane E., Holder, Michael E., Howarth, Clinton, Huang, Katherine H., Huse, Susan M., Izard, Jacques, Jansson, Janet K., Jiang, Huaiyang, Jordan, Catherine, Joshi, Vandita, Katancik, James A., Keitel, Wendy A., Kelley, Scott T., Kells, Cristyn, Kinder-Haake, Susan, King, Nicholas B., Knight, Rob, Knights, Dan, Kong, Heidi H., Koren, Omry, Koren, Sergey, Kota, Karthik C., Kovar, Christie L., Kyrpides, Nikos C., La Rosa, Patricio S., Lee, Sandra L., Lemon, Katherine P., Lennon, Niall, Lewis, Cecil M., Lewis, Lora, Ley, Ruth E., Li, Kelvin, Liolios, Konstantinos, Liu, Bo, Liu, Yue, Lo, Chien-Chi, Lozupone, Catherine A., Lunsford, Dwayne R., Madden, Tessa, Mahurkar, Anup A., Mannon, Peter J., Mardis, Elaine R., Markowitz, Victor M., Mavrommatis, Konstantinos, McCorrison, Jamison M., McDonald, Daniel, McEwen, Jean, McGuire, Amy L., McInnes, Pamela, Mehta, Teena, Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A., Miller, Jason R., Minx, Patrick J., Newsham, Irene, Nusbaum, Chad, O’Laughlin, Michelle, Orvis, Joshua, Pagani, Ioanna, Palaniappan, Krishna, Patel, Shital M., Pearson, Matthew, Peterson, Jane, Podar, Mircea, Pohl, Craig, Pollard, Katherine S., Priest, Margaret E., Proctor, Lita M., Qin, Xiang, Raes, Jeroen, Ravel, Jacques, Reid, Jeffrey G., Rho, Mina, Rhodes, Rosamond, Riehle, Kevin P., Rivera, Maria C., Rodriguez-Mueller, Beltran, Rogers, Yu-Hui, Ross, Matthew C., Russ, Carsten, Sanka, Ravi K., Sankar, Pamela, Sathirapongsasuti, Fah J., Schloss, Jeffery A., Schloss, Patrick D., Schmidt, Thomas M., Scholz, Matthew, Schriml, Lynn, Schubert, Alyxandria M., Segata, Nicola, Segre, Julia A., Shannon, William D., Sharp, Richard R., Sharpton, Thomas J., Shenoy, Narmada, Sheth, Nihar U., Simone, Gina A., Singh, Indresh, Smillie, Chris S., Sobel, Jack D., Sommer, Daniel D., Spicer, Paul, Sutton, Granger G., Sykes, Sean M., Tabbaa, Diana G., Thiagarajan, Mathangi, Tomlinson, Chad M., Torralba, Manolito, Treangen, Todd J., Truty, Rebecca M., Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A., Walker, Jason, Wang, Lu, Wang, Zhengyuan, Ward, Doyle V., Warren, Wesley, Watson, Mark A., Wellington, Christopher, Wetterstrand, Kris A., White, James R., Wilczek-Boney, Katarzyna, Wu, Yuan Qing, Wylie, Kristine M., Wylie, Todd, Yandava, Chandri, Ye, Liang, Ye, Yuzhen, Yooseph, Shibu, Youmans, Bonnie P., Zhang, Lan, Zhou, Yanjiao, Zhu, Yiming, Zoloth, Laurie, Zucker, Jeremy D., Birren, Bruce W., Gibbs, Richard A., Highlander, Sarah K., Weinstock, George M., Wilson, Richard K., and White, Owen

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2012
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20. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

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Huttenhower, Curtis, Gevers, Dirk, Knight, Rob, Abubucker, Sahar, Badger, Jonathan H., Chinwalla, Asif T., Creasy, Heather H., Earl, Ashlee M., FitzGerald, Michael G., Fulton, Robert S., Giglio, Michelle G., Hallsworth-Pepin, Kymberlie, Lobos, Elizabeth A., Madupu, Ramana, Magrini, Vincent, Martin, John C., Mitreva, Makedonka, Muzny, Donna M., Sodergren, Erica J., Versalovic, James, Wollam, Aye M., Worley, Kim C., Wortman, Jennifer R., Young, Sarah K., Zeng, Qiandong, Aagaard, Kjersti M., Abolude, Olukemi O., Allen-Vercoe, Emma, Alm, Eric J., Alvarado, Lucia, Andersen, Gary L., Anderson, Scott, Appelbaum, Elizabeth, Arachchi, Harindra M., Armitage, Gary, Arze, Cesar A., Ayvaz, Tulin, Baker, Carl C., Begg, Lisa, Belachew, Tsegahiwot, Bhonagiri, Veena, Bihan, Monika, Blaser, Martin J., Bloom, Toby, Bonazzi, Vivien, Brooks, Paul J., Buck, Gregory A., Buhay, Christian J., Busam, Dana A., Campbell, Joseph L., Canon, Shane R., Cantarel, Brandi L., Chain, Patrick S. G., Chen, I-Min A., Chen, Lei, Chhibba, Shaila, Chu, Ken, Ciulla, Dawn M., Clemente, Jose C., Clifton, Sandra W., Conlan, Sean, Crabtree, Jonathan, Cutting, Mary A., Davidovics, Noam J., Davis, Catherine C., DeSantis, Todd Z., Deal, Carolyn, Delehaunty, Kimberley D., Dewhirst, Floyd E., Deych, Elena, Ding, Yan, Dooling, David J., Dugan, Shannon P., Dunne, Wm Michael, Durkin, Scott A., Edgar, Robert C., Erlich, Rachel L., Farmer, Candace N., Farrell, Ruth M., Faust, Karoline, Feldgarden, Michael, Felix, Victor M., Fisher, Sheila, Fodor, Anthony A., Forney, Larry J., Foster, Leslie, Di Francesco, Valentina, Friedman, Jonathan, Friedrich, Dennis C., Fronick, Catrina C., Fulton, Lucinda L., Gao, Hongyu, Garcia, Nathalia, Giannoukos, Georgia, Giblin, Christina, Giovanni, Maria Y., Goldberg, Jonathan M., Goll, Johannes, Gonzalez, Antonio, Griggs, Allison, Gujja, Sharvari, Haake, Susan Kinder, Haas, Brian J., Hamilton, Holli A., Harris, Emily L., Hepburn, Theresa A., Herter, Brandi, Hoffmann, Diane E., Holder, Michael E., Howarth, Clinton, Huang, Katherine H., Huse, Susan M., Izard, Jacques, Jansson, Janet K., Jiang, Huaiyang, Jordan, Catherine, Joshi, Vandita, Katancik, James A., Keitel, Wendy A., Kelley, Scott T., Kells, Cristyn, King, Nicholas B., Knights, Dan, Kong, Heidi H., Koren, Omry, Koren, Sergey, Kota, Karthik C., Kovar, Christie L., Kyrpides, Nikos C., La Rosa, Patricio S., Lee, Sandra L., Lemon, Katherine P., Lennon, Niall, Lewis, Cecil M., Lewis, Lora, Ley, Ruth E., Li, Kelvin, Liolios, Konstantinos, Liu, Bo, Liu, Yue, Lo, Chien-Chi, Lozupone, Catherine A., Lunsford, Dwayne R., Madden, Tessa, Mahurkar, Anup A., Mannon, Peter J., Mardis, Elaine R., Markowitz, Victor M., Mavromatis, Konstantinos, McCorrison, Jamison M., McDonald, Daniel, McEwen, Jean, McGuire, Amy L., McInnes, Pamela, Mehta, Teena, Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A., Miller, Jason R., Minx, Patrick J., Newsham, Irene, Nusbaum, Chad, O’Laughlin, Michelle, Orvis, Joshua, Pagani, Ioanna, Palaniappan, Krishna, Patel, Shital M., Pearson, Matthew, Peterson, Jane, Podar, Mircea, Pohl, Craig, Pollard, Katherine S., Pop, Mihai, Priest, Margaret E., Proctor, Lita M., Qin, Xiang, Raes, Jeroen, Ravel, Jacques, Reid, Jeffrey G., Rho, Mina, Rhodes, Rosamond, Riehle, Kevin P., Rivera, Maria C., Rodriguez-Mueller, Beltran, Rogers, Yu-Hui, Ross, Matthew C., Russ, Carsten, Sanka, Ravi K., Sankar, Pamela, Sathirapongsasuti, Fah J., Schloss, Jeffery A., Schloss, Patrick D., Schmidt, Thomas M., Scholz, Matthew, Schriml, Lynn, Schubert, Alyxandria M., Segata, Nicola, Segre, Julia A., Shannon, William D., Sharp, Richard R., Sharpton, Thomas J., Shenoy, Narmada, Sheth, Nihar U., Simone, Gina A., Singh, Indresh, Smillie, Christopher S., Sobel, Jack D., Sommer, Daniel D., Spicer, Paul, Sutton, Granger G., Sykes, Sean M., Tabbaa, Diana G., Thiagarajan, Mathangi, Tomlinson, Chad M., Torralba, Manolito, Treangen, Todd J., Truty, Rebecca M., Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A., Walker, Jason, Wang, Lu, Wang, Zhengyuan, Ward, Doyle V., Warren, Wesley, Watson, Mark A., Wellington, Christopher, Wetterstrand, Kris A., White, James R., Wilczek-Boney, Katarzyna, Wu, YuanQing, Wylie, Kristine M., Wylie, Todd, Yandava, Chandri, Ye, Liang, Ye, Yuzhen, Yooseph, Shibu, Youmans, Bonnie P., Zhang, Lan, Zhou, Yanjiao, Zhu, Yiming, Zoloth, Laurie, Zucker, Jeremy D., Birren, Bruce W., Gibbs, Richard A., Highlander, Sarah K., Methé, Barbara A., Nelson, Karen E., Petrosino, Joseph F., Weinstock, George M., Wilson, Richard K., and White, Owen

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2012
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21. The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

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Elsik, Christine G., Tellam, Ross L., Worley, Kim C., Gibbs, Richard A., Elsik, Christine G., Tellam, Ross L, Gibbs, Richard A., Muzny, Donna M., Weinstock, George M., Adelson, David L, Eichler, Evan E., Elnitski, Laura, Elsik, Christine G., Guigó, Roderic, Hamernik, Debora L., Kappes, Steve M., Lewin, Harris A, Lynn, David J., Nicholas, Frank W., Reymond, Alexandre, Rijnkels, Monique, Skow, Loren C., Tellam, Ross L, Worley, Kim C., Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Gibbs, Richard A., Kappes, Steve M., Schook, Lawrence, Skow, Loren C., Weinstock, George M., Womack, James, Alioto, Tyler, Antonarakis, Stylianos E., Astashyn, Alex, Chapple, Charles E., Chen, Hsiu-Chuan, Chrast, Jacqueline, Câmara, Francisco, Elsik, Christine G., Ermolaeva, Olga, Guigó, Roderic, Henrichsen, Charlotte N., Hlavina, Wratko, Kapustin, Yuri, Kiryutin, Boris, Kitts, Paul, Kokocinski, Felix, Landrum, Melissa, Maglott, Donna, Pruitt, Kim, Reymond, Alexandre, Sapojnikov, Victor, Searle, Stephen M., Solovyev, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Ucla, Catherine, Weinstock, George M., Wyss, Carine, Alioto, Tyler, Antonarakis, Stylianos E., Chapple, Charles E., Chrast, Jacqueline, Câmara, Francisco, Guigó, Roderic, Henrichsen, Charlotte N., Reymond, Alexandre, Ucla, Catherine, Wyss, Carine, Anzola, Juan M., Gerlach, Daniel, Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Elhaik, Eran, Elsik, Christine G., Graur, Dan, Reese, Justin T., Adelson, David L., Edgar, Robert C., McEwan, John C., Payne, Gemma M., Raison, Joy M., Junier, Thomas, Kriventseva, Evgenia V., Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Chrast, Jacqueline, Eyras, Eduardo, Henrichsen, Charlotte N., Plass, Mireya, Reymond, Alexandre, Donthu, Ravikiran, Larkin, Denis M., Lewin, Harris A., Nicholas, Frank W., Elnitski, Laura, Larkin, Denis M., Lewin, Harris A., Reecy, James, Yang, Mary Q., Adelson, David L, Chen, Lin, Cheng, Ze, Chitko-McKown, Carol G., Eichler, Evan E., Elnitski, Laura, Elsik, Christine G., Liu, George E., Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Song, Jiuzhou, Zhu, Bin, Elsik, Christine G., Lynn, David J., Reese, Justin T., Bradley, Daniel G., Brinkman, Fiona S.L, Lau, Lilian P.L., Lynn, David J., Whiteside, Matthew D., Tellam, Ross L, Walker, Angela, Wheeler, Thomas T., Casey, Theresa, German, Bruce J., Lemay, Danielle G., Lynn, David J., Maqbool, Nauman J., Molenaar, Adrian J., Rijnkels, Monique, Lewin, Harris A., Seo, Seongwon, Stothard, Paul, Baldwin, Cynthia L., Baxter, Rebecca, Brinkmeyer-Langford, Candice L., Brown, Wendy C., Childers, Christopher P., Connelley, Timothy, Ellis, Shirley A., Fritz, Krista, Glass, Elizabeth J., Herzig, Carolyn T.A., livanainen, Antti, Lahmers, Kevin K., Skow, Loren C., Bennett, Anna K., Childers, Christopher P., Dickens, Michael C., Elsik, Christine G., Gilbert, James G.R., Hagen, Darren E., Reese, Justin T., Salih, Hanni, Aerts, Jan, Caetano, Alexandre R., Dalrymple, Brian, Elsik, Christine G., Fernando Garcia, Jose, Gibbs, Richard A., Gill, Clare A., Hamernik, Debora L, Hiendleder, Stefan G., Memili, Erdogan, Nicholas, Frank W., Reecy, James, Rijnkels, Monique, Skow, Loren C., Spurlock, Diane, Stothard, Paul, Tellam, Ross L, Weinstock, George M., Williams, John L, Worley, Kim C., Alexander, Lee, Brownstein, Michael J., Guan, Leluo, Holt, Robert A., Jones, Steven J.M., Marra, Marco A., Moore, Richard, Moore, Stephen S., Roberts, Andy, Taniguchi, Masaaki, Waterman, Richard C., Chacko, Joseph, Chandrabose, Mimi M., Cree, Andy, Diep Dao, Marvin, Dinh, Huyen H., Ayiesha Gabisi, Ramatu, Hines, Sandra, Hume, Jennifer, Jhangiani, Shalini N., Joshi, Vandita, Kovar, Christie L., Lewis, Lora R., Liu, Yih-shin, Lopez, John, Morgan, Margaret B., Muzny, Donna M., Bich Nguyen, Ngoc, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O., Ruiz, San Juana, Santibanez, Jireh, Wright, Rita A., Buhay, Christian, Ding, Yan, Dugan-Rocha, Shannon, Herdandez, Judith, Holder, Michael, Sabo, Aniko, Egan, Amy, Goodell, Jason, Wilczek-Boney, Katarzyna, Fowler, Gerald R., Edward Hitchens, Matthew, Lozado, Ryan J., Moen, Charles, Steffen, David, Warren, James T., Zhang, Jingkun, Chiu, Readman, Jones, Steven J.M., Marra, Marco A., Schein, Jacqueline E., James Durbin, K., Havlak, Paul, Jiang, Huaiyang, Liu, Yue, Qin, Xiang, Ren, Yanru, Shen, Yufeng, Song, Henry, Weinstock, George M., Worley, Kim C., Nicole Bell, Stephanie, Davis, Clay, Jolivet Johnson, Angela, Lee, Sandra, Nazareth, Lynne V., Patel, Bella Mayurkumar, Pu, Ling-Ling, Vattathil, Selina, Williams, Rex Lee, Jr., Curry, Stacey, Hamilton, Cerissa, Sodergren, Erica, Nazareth, Lynne V., Wheeler, David A., Adelson, David L, Aerts, Jan, Barris, Wes, Bennett, Gary L, Dalrymple, Brian, Eggen, André, Gill, Clare A., Green, Ronnie D., Harhay, Gregory P., Hobbs, Matthew, Jann, Oliver, Kappes, Steve M., Keele, John W., Kent, Matthew P., Larkin, Denis M., Lewin, Harris A., Lien, Sigbjørn, McEwan, John C., McKay, Stephanie D., McWilliam, Sean, Moore, Stephen S., Nicholas, Frank W., Payne, Gemma M., Ratnakumar, Abhirami, Salih, Hanni, Schnabel, Robert D., Smith, Timothy, Snelling, Warren M., Sonstegard, Tad S., Stone, Roger T., Sugimoto, Yoshikazu, Takasuga, Akiko, Taylor, Jeremy F., Tellam, Ross L., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Williams, John L, MacNeil, Michael D., Abatepaulo, Antonio R.R., Abbey, Colette A., Aerts, Jan, Ahola, Virpi, Almeida, Iassudara G., Amadio, Ariel F., Anatriello, Elen, Bahadue, Suria M., Baldwin, Cynthia L., Baxter, Rebecca, Bennett, Anna K., Biase, Fernando H., Boldt, Clayton R., Brinkmeyer-Langford, Candice L, Brown, Wendy C., Caetano, Alexandre R., Carroll, Jeffery A., Carvalho, Wanessa A, Casey, Theresa, Cervelatti, Eliane P., Chacko, Elsa, Chapin, Jennifer E., Cheng, Ye, Childers, Christopher P., Choi, Jungwoo, Colley, Adam J., Connelley, Timothy, de Campos, Tatiana A., De Donato, Marcos, de Miranda Santos, Isabel K.F., de Oliveira, Carlo J.F., Deobald, Heather, Devinoy, Eve, Dickens, Michael C., Donohue, Kaitlin E., Dovc, Peter, Eberlein, Annett, Ellis, Shirley A., Fitzsimmons, Carolyn J., Franzin, Alessandra M., Fritz, Krista, Garcia, Gustavo R., Fernando Garcia, Jose, Genini, Sem, German, Bruce J., Gilbert, James G.R., Gill, Clare A., Gladney, Cody J., Glass, Elizabeth J., Grant, Jason R., Greaser, Marion L., Green, Jonathan A., Hadsell, Darryl L., Hagen, Darren E., Hakimov, Hatam A., Halgren, Rob, Harrow, Jennifer L, Hart, Elizabeth A., Hastings, Nicola, Hernandez, Marta, Herzig, Carolyn T.A., Hiendleder, Stefan G., Hobbs, Matthew, Hu, Zhi-Liang, livanainen, Antti, Ingham, Aaron, Iso-Touru, Terhi, Jamis, Catherine, Jann, Oliver, Jensen, Kirsty, Kapetis, Dimos, Kerr, Tovah, Khalil, Sari S., Khatib, Hasan, Kolbehdari, Davood, Kumar, Charu G., Kumar, Dinesh, Leach, Richard, Lee, Justin C-M, Lemay, Danielle G., Li, Changxi, Liu, George E., Logan, Krystin M., Malinverni, Roberto, Maqbool, Nauman J., Marques, Elisa, Martin, William F., Martins, Natalia F., Maruyama, Sandra R., Mazza, Raffaele, McLean, Kim L, Medrano, Juan F., Memili, Erdogan, Molenaar, Adrian J., Moreno, Barbara T., Moré, Daniela D., Muntean, Carl T., Nandakumar, Hari P., Nogueira, Marcelo F.G., Olsaker, Ingrid, Pant, Sameer D., Panzitta, Francesca, Pastor, Rosemeire C.P., Poli, Mario A., Poslusny, Nathan, Rachagani, Satyanarayana, Ranganathan, Shoba, Razpet, Andrej, Reecy, James, Riggs, Penny K., Rijnkels, Monique, Rincon, Gonzalo, Rodriguez-Osorio, Nelida, Rodriguez-Zas, Sandra L., Romero, Natasha E., Rosenwald, Anne, Sando, Lillian, Schmutz, Sheila M., Seo, Seongwon, Shen, Libing, Sherman, Laura, Skow, Loren C., Southey, Bruce R., Spurlock, Diane, Strandberg Lutzow, Ylva, Sweedler, Jonathan V., Tammen, Imke, Taniguchi, Masaaki, Tellam, Ross L, Telugu, Bhanu Prakash V.L, Urbanski, Jennifer M., Utsunomiya, Yuri T., Verschoor, Chris P., Waardenberg, Ashley J., Walker, Angela, Wang, Zhiquan, Ward, Robert, Weikard, Rosemarie, Welsh, Thomas H., Jr., Wheeler, Thomas T., White, Stephen N., Williams, John L, Wilming, Laurens G., Wunderlich, Kris R., Yang, Jianqi, and Zhao, Feng-Qi

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2009

22. Genome-Wide Survey of SNP Variation Uncovers the Genetic Structure of Cattle Breeds

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Gibbs, Richard A., Taylor, Jeremy F., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Barendse, William, Eversole, Kellye A., Gibbs, Richard A., Gill, Clare A., Green, Ronnie D., Hamernik, Debora L., Kappes, Steven M., Lien, Sigbjørn, Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., McEwan, John C., Nazareth, Lynne V., Schnabel, Robert D., Taylor, Jeremy F., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Weinstock, George M., Wheeler, David A., Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo, Barendse, William, Boettcher, Paul J., Caetano, Alexandre R., Fernando Garcia, Jose, Gill, Clare A., Green, Ronnie D., Hanotte, Olivier, Lien, Sigbjørn, Mariani, Paola, McEwan, John C., Skow, Loren C., Sonstegard, Tad S., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Williams, John L., Caetano, Alexandre R., Diallo, Boubacar, Green, Ronnie D., Hailemariam, Lemecha, Hanotte, Olivier, Martinez, Mario L., Morris, Chris A., Silva, Luiz O. C., Spelman, Richard J., Taylor, Jeremy F., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Mulatu, Woudyalew, Zhao, Keyan, Abbey, Colette A., Agaba, Morris, Araujo, Flábio R., Bunch, Rowan J., Burton, James, Gill, Clare A, Gorni, Chiara, Green, Ronnie D., Olivier, Hanotte, Harrison, Blair E., Lien, Sigbjørn, Luff, Bill, Machado, Marco A., Mariani, Paola, McEwan, John C., Morris, Chris A., Mwakaya, Joel, Plastow, Graham, Sim, Warren, Skow, Loren C., Smith, Timothy, Sonstegard, Tad S., Spelman, Richard J., Taylor, Jeremy F., Thomas, Merle B., Valentini, Alessio, Van Tassell, Curtis P., Williams, Paul, Womack, James, Woolliams, John A., Liu, Yue, Qin, Xiang, Worley, Kim C., Gao, Chuan, Gill, Clare A., Jiang, Huaiyang, Liu, Yue, Moore, Stephen S., Nazareth, Lynne V., Ren, Yanru, Song, Xing-Zhi, Wheeler, David A., Worley, Kim C., Bustamante, Carlos D., Hernandez, Ryan D., Muzny, Donna M., Nazareth, Lynne V., Patil, Shobha, Ren, Yanru, San Lucas, Anthony, Wheeler, David A., Fu, Qing, Kent, Matthew P., Lien, Sigbjørn, Moore, Stephen S., Nazareth, Lynne V., Vega, Richard, Wheeler, David A., Abbey, Colette A., Gao, Chuan, Gill, Clare A., Green, Ronnie D., Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Matukumalli, Aruna, McWilliam, Sean, Van Tassell, Curtis P., Abbey, Colette A., Gill, Clare A., Kent, Matthew P., Lien, Sigbjørn, Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Schnabel, Robert D., Sclep, Gert, Taylor, Jeremy F., Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo, Bryc, Katarzyna, Bustamante, Carlos D., Choi, Jungwoo, Gao, Hong, Grefenstette, John J., Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Murdoch, Brenda, Moore, Stephen S., Nazareth, Lynne V., Stella, Alessandra, Van Tassell, Curtis P., Villa-Angulo, Rafael, Wheeler, David A., Wright, Mark, Aerts, Jan, Jann, Oliver, Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Negrini, Riccardo, Sonstegard, Tad S., Williams, John L., Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo, Grefenstette, John J., Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Negrini, Riccardo, Schnabel, Robert D., Taylor, Jeremy F., Villa-Angulo, Rafael, Grefenstette, John J., Matukumalli, Lakshmi K., Van Tassell, Curtis P., Villa-Angulo, Rafael, Goddard, Mike E., Hayes, Ben J., Barendse, William, Bradley, Daniel G., Boettcher, Paul J., Bustamante, Carlos D., Choi, Jungwoo, Barbosa da Silva, Marcos, Gill, Clare A., Lau, Lilian P. L., Liu, George E., Lynn, David J., Panzitta, Francesca, Sclep, Gert, Wright, Mark, Bustamante, Carlos D., Dodds, Ken G., McEwan, John C., Taylor, Jeremy F., and Van Tassell, Curtis P.

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2009

24. Bos taurus genome assembly

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Sodergren Erica, Zhang Lan, Ren Yanru, Sodeland Marte, Kent Matthew, Lien Sigbjørn, Durbin K James, Shen Yufeng, Jiang Huaiyang, Song Xing-Zhi, Qin Xiang, Liu Yue, Havlak Paul, Worley Kim C, Weinstock George M, and Gibbs Richard A

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Biotechnology, TP248.13-248.65, Genetics, QH426-470
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Abstract Background We present here the assembly of the bovine genome. The assembly method combines the BAC plus WGS local assembly used for the rat and sea urchin with the whole genome shotgun (WGS) only assembly used for many other animal genomes including the rhesus macaque. Results The assembly process consisted of multiple phases: First, BACs were assembled with BAC generated sequence, then subsequently in combination with the individual overlapping WGS reads. Different assembly parameters were tested to separately optimize the performance for each BAC assembly of the BAC and WGS reads. In parallel, a second assembly was produced using only the WGS sequences and a global whole genome assembly method. The two assemblies were combined to create a more complete genome representation that retained the high quality BAC-based local assembly information, but with gaps between BACs filled in with the WGS-only assembly. Finally, the entire assembly was placed on chromosomes using the available map information. Over 90% of the assembly is now placed on chromosomes. The estimated genome size is 2.87 Gb which represents a high degree of completeness, with 95% of the available EST sequences found in assembled contigs. The quality of the assembly was evaluated by comparison to 73 finished BACs, where the draft assembly covers between 92.5 and 100% (average 98.5%) of the finished BACs. The assembly contigs and scaffolds align linearly to the finished BACs, suggesting that misassemblies are rare. Genotyping and genetic mapping of 17,482 SNPs revealed that more than 99.2% were correctly positioned within the Btau_4.0 assembly, confirming the accuracy of the assembly. Conclusion The biological analysis of this bovine genome assembly is being published, and the sequence data is available to support future bovine research.

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2009
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25. Subtle genetic changes enhance virulence of methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

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Hawes Alicia C, Dinh Huyen H, Buhay Christian J, Blyth Peter R, Dugan Shannon, Ding Yan, Hemphill Lisa, Muzny Donna M, Cardenas Ana, Fox George E, Uzman Akif, Tirumalai Madhan, Petrosino Joseph, Igboeli Okezie, Liu Yamei, Fortunov Régine M, Williams Tiffany M, Shang Yue, Mason Edward O, Yerrapragada Shailaja, Jiang Huaiyang, Qin Xiang, Hultén Kristina G, Highlander Sarah K, Holder Michael, Kovar Christie L, Lee Sandra L, Liu Wen, Nazareth Lynne V, Wang Qiaoyan, Zhou Jianling, Kaplan Sheldon L, and Weinstock George M

Subjects
Microbiology, QR1-502
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Abstract Background Community acquired (CA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) increasingly causes disease worldwide. USA300 has emerged as the predominant clone causing superficial and invasive infections in children and adults in the USA. Epidemiological studies suggest that USA300 is more virulent than other CA-MRSA. The genetic determinants that render virulence and dominance to USA300 remain unclear. Results We sequenced the genomes of two pediatric USA300 isolates: one CA-MRSA and one CA-methicillin susceptible (MSSA), isolated at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. DNA sequencing was performed by Sanger dideoxy whole genome shotgun (WGS) and 454 Life Sciences pyrosequencing strategies. The sequence of the USA300 MRSA strain was rigorously annotated. In USA300-MRSA 2658 chromosomal open reading frames were predicted and 3.1 and 27 kilobase (kb) plasmids were identified. USA300-MSSA contained a 20 kb plasmid with some homology to the 27 kb plasmid found in USA300-MRSA. Two regions found in US300-MRSA were absent in USA300-MSSA. One of these carried the arginine deiminase operon that appears to have been acquired from S. epidermidis. The USA300 sequence was aligned with other sequenced S. aureus genomes and regions unique to USA300 MRSA were identified. Conclusion USA300-MRSA is highly similar to other MRSA strains based on whole genome alignments and gene content, indicating that the differences in pathogenesis are due to subtle changes rather than to large-scale acquisition of virulence factor genes. The USA300 Houston isolate differs from another sequenced USA300 strain isolate, derived from a patient in San Francisco, in plasmid content and a number of sequence polymorphisms. Such differences will provide new insights into the evolution of pathogens.

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2007
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26. MCM8 and MCM9 Nucleotide Variants in Women with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency

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Desai, Swapna, primary, Wood-Trageser, Michelle, additional, Matic, Jelena, additional, Chipkin, Jaqueline, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Bachelot, Anne, additional, Dulon, Jerome, additional, Sala, Cinzia, additional, Barbieri, Caterina, additional, Cocca, Massimiliano, additional, Toniolo, Daniela, additional, Philippe, Touraine, additional, Witchel, Selma, additional, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar, additional

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2016
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27. Prototypical Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

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Chipman, Ariel D., Ferrier, David E. K., Brena, Carlo, Qu, Jiaxin, Hughes, Daniel S. T., Schröder, Reinhard, Torres-Oliva, Montserrat, Znassi, Nadia, Jiang, Huaiyang, Almeida, Francisca C., Alonso, Claudio R., Apostolou, Zivkos, Aqrawi, Peshtewani, Arthur, Wallace, Barna, Jennifer C. J., Blankenburg, Kerstin P., Brites, Daniela, Capella-Gutiérrez, Salvador, Coyle, Marcus, Dearden, Peter K., Pasquier, Louis Du, Duncan, Elisabeth J., Ebert, Dieter, Eibner, Cornelius, Erikson, Galina, Evans, Peter D., Extavour, Cassandra G., Francisco, Liezl, Gabaldón, Toni, Gillis, William J., Goodwin-Horn, Elisabeth A., Green, Jack E., Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P., Gubbala, Sal, Guigó Serra, Roderic, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Havlak, Paul, Rozas Liras, Julio A., and Universitat de Barcelona

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Insectes, Insects, Genòmica, Arthropoda, Genètica animal, Drosòfila, Artròpodes, Drosophila, Genètica evolutiva, Genomics, Animal genetics, Evolutionary genetics
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Myriapods (e.g., centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality independently of insects. Myriapoda is the only arthropod class not represented by a sequenced genome. We present an analysis of the genome of the centipede Strigamia maritima. It retains a compact genome that has undergone less gene loss and shuffling than previously sequenced arthropods, and many orthologues of genes conserved from the bilaterian ancestor that have been lost in insects. Our analysis locates many genes in conserved macro-synteny contexts, and many small-scale examples of gene clustering. We describe several examples where S. maritima shows different solutions from insects to similar problems. The insect olfactory receptor gene family is absent from S. maritima, and olfaction in air is likely effected by expansion of other receptor gene families. For some genes S. maritima has evolved paralogues to generate coding sequence diversity, where insects use alternate splicing. This is most striking for the Dscam gene, which in Drosophila generates more than 100,000 alternate splice forms, but in S. maritima is encoded by over 100 paralogues. We see an intriguing linkage between the absence of any known photosensory proteins in a blind organism and the additional absence of canonical circadian clock genes. The phylogenetic position of myriapods allows us to identify where in arthropod phylogeny several particular molecular mechanisms and traits emerged. For example, we conclude that juvenile hormone signalling evolved with the emergence of the exoskeleton in the arthropods and that RR-1 containing cuticle proteins evolved in the lineage leading to Mandibulata. We also identify when various gene expansions and losses occurred. The genome of S. maritima offers us a unique glimpse into the ancestral arthropod genome, while also displaying many adaptations to its specific life history.

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2014

28. Finding the Missing Honey Bee Genes: Lessons Learned From a Genome Upgrade

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Elsik, Christine G, Worley, Kim C, Bennett, Anna K, Beye, Martin, Camara, Francisco, Childers, Christopher P, de Graaf, Dirk C, Debyser, Griet, Deng, Jixin, Devreese, Bart, Elhaik, Eran, Evans, Jay D, Foster, Leonard J, Graur, Dan, Guigo, Roderic, HGSC production teams, Hoff, Katharina Jasmin, Holder, Michael E, Hudson, Matthew E, Hunt, Greg, Jiang, Huaiyang, Joshi, Vandita, Khetani, Radhika S, Kosarev, Peter, Kovar, Christie L, Ma, Jian, Maleszka, Ryszard, Moritz, Robin FA, Munoz-Torres, Monica C, Murphy, Terence D, Muzny, Donna M, Newsham, Irene F, Reese, Justin T, Robertson, Hugh M, Robinson, Gene E, Rueppell, Olav, Solovyev, Victor, Stanke, Mario, Stolle, Eckart, Tsuruda, Jennifer M, Van Vaerenbergh, Matthias, Waterhouse, Robert M, Weaver, Daniel B, Whitfield, Charles W, Wu, Yuanqing, Zdobnov, Evgeny M, Zhang, Lan, Zhu, Dianhui, and Gibbs, Richard A

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Apis mellifera, GC content, Gene annotation, Gene prediction, Genome assembly, Genome improvement, Genome sequencing, Repetitive DNA, Transcriptome, fungi
Abstract

Background The first generation of genome sequence assemblies and annotations have had a significant impact upon our understanding of the biology of the sequenced species, the phylogenetic relationships among species, the study of populations within and across species, and have informed the biology of humans. As only a few Metazoan genomes are approaching finished quality (human, mouse, fly and worm), there is room for improvement of most genome assemblies. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome, published in 2006, was noted for its bimodal GC content distribution that affected the quality of the assembly in some regions and for fewer genes in the initial gene set (OGSv1.0) compared to what would be expected based on other sequenced insect genomes. Results Here, we report an improved honey bee genome assembly (Amel_4.5) with a new gene annotation set (OGSv3.2), and show that the honey bee genome contains a number of genes similar to that of other insect genomes, contrary to what was suggested in OGSv1.0. The new genome assembly is more contiguous and complete and the new gene set includes ~5000 more protein-coding genes, 50% more than previously reported. About 1/6 of the additional genes were due to improvements to the assembly, and the remaining were inferred based on new RNAseq and protein data. Conclusions Lessons learned from this genome upgrade have important implications for future genome sequencing projects. Furthermore, the improvements significantly enhance genomic resources for the honey bee, a key model for social behavior and essential to global ecology through pollination.

Published
2014

29. Genomic Signatures of Cooperation and Conflict in the Social Amoeba

Author

Ostrowski, Elizabeth A., primary, Shen, Yufeng, additional, Tian, Xiangjun, additional, Sucgang, Richard, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Qu, Jiaxin, additional, Katoh-Kurasawa, Mariko, additional, Brock, Debra A., additional, Dinh, Christopher, additional, Lara-Garduno, Fremiet, additional, Lee, Sandra L., additional, Kovar, Christie L., additional, Dinh, Huyen H., additional, Korchina, Viktoriya, additional, Jackson, LaRonda, additional, Patil, Shobha, additional, Han, Yi, additional, Chaboub, Lesley, additional, Shaulsky, Gad, additional, Muzny, Donna M., additional, Worley, Kim C., additional, Gibbs, Richard A., additional, Richards, Stephen, additional, Kuspa, Adam, additional, Strassmann, Joan E., additional, and Queller, David C., additional

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2015
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30. Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade

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Elsik, Christine G., Worley, Kim C., Bennett, Anna K., Beye, Martin, Camara, Francisco, Childers, Christopher P., de Graaf, Dirk C., Debyser, Griet, Deng, Jixin, Devreese, Bart, Elhaik, Eran, Evans, Jay D., Foster, Leonard J., Graur, Dan, Guigo, Roderic, Hoff, Katharina J., Holder, Michael E., Hudson, Matthew E., Hunt, Greg J., Jiang, Huaiyang, Joshi, Vandita, Khetani, Radhika S, Kosarev, Peter, Kovar, Christie L., Ma, Jian, Maleszka, Ryszard, Moritz, Robin F. A., Munoz-Torres, Monica C., Murphy, Terence D., Muzny, Donna M., Newsham, Irene F., Reese, Justin T., Robertson, Hugh M., Robinson, Gene E, Rueppell, Olav, Solovyev, Victor, Stanke, Mario, Stolle, Eckart, Tsuruda, Jennifer M., Vaerenbergh, Matthias V., Waterhouse, Robert M., Weaver, Daniel B., Whitfield, Charles W., Wu, Yuanqing, Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Zhang, Lan, Zhu, Dianhui, Gibbs, Richard A., Elsik, Christine G., Worley, Kim C., Bennett, Anna K., Beye, Martin, Camara, Francisco, Childers, Christopher P., de Graaf, Dirk C., Debyser, Griet, Deng, Jixin, Devreese, Bart, Elhaik, Eran, Evans, Jay D., Foster, Leonard J., Graur, Dan, Guigo, Roderic, Hoff, Katharina J., Holder, Michael E., Hudson, Matthew E., Hunt, Greg J., Jiang, Huaiyang, Joshi, Vandita, Khetani, Radhika S, Kosarev, Peter, Kovar, Christie L., Ma, Jian, Maleszka, Ryszard, Moritz, Robin F. A., Munoz-Torres, Monica C., Murphy, Terence D., Muzny, Donna M., Newsham, Irene F., Reese, Justin T., Robertson, Hugh M., Robinson, Gene E, Rueppell, Olav, Solovyev, Victor, Stanke, Mario, Stolle, Eckart, Tsuruda, Jennifer M., Vaerenbergh, Matthias V., Waterhouse, Robert M., Weaver, Daniel B., Whitfield, Charles W., Wu, Yuanqing, Zdobnov, Evgeny M., Zhang, Lan, Zhu, Dianhui, and Gibbs, Richard A.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The first generation of genome sequence assemblies and annotations have had a significant impact upon our understanding of the biology of the sequenced species, the phylogenetic relationships among species, the study of populations within and across species, and have informed the biology of humans. As only a few Metazoan genomes are approaching finished quality (human, mouse, fly and worm), there is room for improvement of most genome assemblies. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome, published in 2006, was noted for its bimodal GC content distribution that affected the quality of the assembly in some regions and for fewer genes in the initial gene set (OGSv1.0) compared to what would be expected based on other sequenced insect genomes. RESULTS: Here, we report an improved honey bee genome assembly (Amel_4.5) with a new gene annotation set (OGSv3.2), and show that the honey bee genome contains a number of genes similar to that of other insect genomes, contrary to what was suggested in OGSv1.0. The new genome assembly is more contiguous and complete and the new gene set includes ~5000 more protein-coding genes, 50% more than previously reported. About 1/6 of the additional genes were due to improvements to the assembly, and the remaining were inferred based on new RNAseq and protein data. CONCLUSIONS: Lessons learned from this genome upgrade have important implications for future genome sequencing projects. Furthermore, the improvements significantly enhance genomic resources for the honey bee, a key model for social behavior and essential to global ecology through pollination.

Published
2014

31. The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima

Author

Chipman, Ariel D., Ferrier, David E.K., Brena, Carlo, Qu, Jiaxin, Hughes, Daniel S.T., Schröder, Reinhard, Torres-Oliva, Montserrat, Znassi, Nadia, Jiang, Huaiyang, Almeida, Francisca C, Alonso, Claudio R, Apostolou, Zivkos, Aqrawi, Peshtewani, Arthur, Wallace, Barna, Jennifer C J, Blankenburg, Kerstin P, Brites, Daniela, Capella-Gutiérrez, Salvador, Coyle, Marcus, Dearden, Peter K, Du Pasquier, Louis, Duncan, Elizabeth J, Ebert, Dieter, Eibner, Cornelius, Erikson, Galina, Evans, Peter D, Extavour, Cassandra G, Francisco, Liezl, Gabaldón, Toni, Gillis, William J, Goodwin-Horn, Elizabeth A, Green, Jack E, Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis, Gubbala, Sai, Guigó, Roderic, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Havlak, Paul, Hayden, Luke, Helbing, Sophie, Holder, Michael, Hui, Jerome H L, Hunn, Julia P, Hunnekuhl, Vera S, Jackson, LaRonda, Javaid, Mehwish, Jhangiani, Shalini N, Jiggins, Francis M, Jones, Tamsin E, Kaiser, Tobias S, Kalra, Divya, Kenny, Nathan J, Korchina, Viktoriya, Kovar, Christie L, Kraus, F Bernhard, Lapraz, François, Lee, Sandra L, Lv, Jie, Mandapat, Christigale, Manning, Gerard, Mariotti, Marco, Mata, Robert, Mathew, Tittu, Neumann, Tobias, Newsham, Irene, Ngo, Dinh N, Ninova, Maria, Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Ongeri, Fiona, Palmer, William J, Patil, Shobha, Patraquim, Pedro, Pham, Christopher, Pu, Ling-Ling, Putman, Nicholas H, Rabouille, Catherine, Ramos, Olivia Mendivil, Rhodes, Adelaide C, Robertson, Helen E, Robertson, Hugh M, Ronshaugen, Matthew, Rozas, Julio, Saada, Nehad, Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro, Scherer, Steven E, Schurko, Andrew M, Siggens, Kenneth W, Simmons, DeNard, Stief, Anna, Stolle, Eckart, Telford, Maximilian J, Tessmar-Raible, Kristin, Thornton, Rebecca, van der Zee, Maurijn, von Haeseler, Arndt, Williams, James M, Willis, Judith H, Wu, Yuanqing, Zou, Xiaoyan, Lawson, Daniel, Muzny, Donna M, Worley, Kim C, Gibbs, Richard A, Akam, Michael, Richards, Stephen, Chipman, Ariel D., Ferrier, David E.K., Brena, Carlo, Qu, Jiaxin, Hughes, Daniel S.T., Schröder, Reinhard, Torres-Oliva, Montserrat, Znassi, Nadia, Jiang, Huaiyang, Almeida, Francisca C, Alonso, Claudio R, Apostolou, Zivkos, Aqrawi, Peshtewani, Arthur, Wallace, Barna, Jennifer C J, Blankenburg, Kerstin P, Brites, Daniela, Capella-Gutiérrez, Salvador, Coyle, Marcus, Dearden, Peter K, Du Pasquier, Louis, Duncan, Elizabeth J, Ebert, Dieter, Eibner, Cornelius, Erikson, Galina, Evans, Peter D, Extavour, Cassandra G, Francisco, Liezl, Gabaldón, Toni, Gillis, William J, Goodwin-Horn, Elizabeth A, Green, Jack E, Griffiths-Jones, Sam, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis, Gubbala, Sai, Guigó, Roderic, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Havlak, Paul, Hayden, Luke, Helbing, Sophie, Holder, Michael, Hui, Jerome H L, Hunn, Julia P, Hunnekuhl, Vera S, Jackson, LaRonda, Javaid, Mehwish, Jhangiani, Shalini N, Jiggins, Francis M, Jones, Tamsin E, Kaiser, Tobias S, Kalra, Divya, Kenny, Nathan J, Korchina, Viktoriya, Kovar, Christie L, Kraus, F Bernhard, Lapraz, François, Lee, Sandra L, Lv, Jie, Mandapat, Christigale, Manning, Gerard, Mariotti, Marco, Mata, Robert, Mathew, Tittu, Neumann, Tobias, Newsham, Irene, Ngo, Dinh N, Ninova, Maria, Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Ongeri, Fiona, Palmer, William J, Patil, Shobha, Patraquim, Pedro, Pham, Christopher, Pu, Ling-Ling, Putman, Nicholas H, Rabouille, Catherine, Ramos, Olivia Mendivil, Rhodes, Adelaide C, Robertson, Helen E, Robertson, Hugh M, Ronshaugen, Matthew, Rozas, Julio, Saada, Nehad, Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro, Scherer, Steven E, Schurko, Andrew M, Siggens, Kenneth W, Simmons, DeNard, Stief, Anna, Stolle, Eckart, Telford, Maximilian J, Tessmar-Raible, Kristin, Thornton, Rebecca, van der Zee, Maurijn, von Haeseler, Arndt, Williams, James M, Willis, Judith H, Wu, Yuanqing, Zou, Xiaoyan, Lawson, Daniel, Muzny, Donna M, Worley, Kim C, Gibbs, Richard A, Akam, Michael, and Richards, Stephen

Abstract

Myriapods (e.g., centipedes and millipedes) display a simple homonomous body plan relative to other arthropods. All members of the class are terrestrial, but they attained terrestriality independently of insects. Myriapoda is the only arthropod class not represented by a sequenced genome. We present an analysis of the genome of the centipede Strigamia maritima. It retains a compact genome that has undergone less gene loss and shuffling than previously sequenced arthropods, and many orthologues of genes conserved from the bilaterian ancestor that have been lost in insects. Our analysis locates many genes in conserved macro-synteny contexts, and many small-scale examples of gene clustering. We describe several examples where S. maritima shows different solutions from insects to similar problems. The insect olfactory receptor gene family is absent from S. maritima, and olfaction in air is likely effected by expansion of other receptor gene families. For some genes S. maritima has evolved paralogues to generate coding sequence diversity, where insects use alternate splicing. This is most striking for the Dscam gene, which in Drosophila generates more than 100,000 alternate splice forms, but in S. maritima is encoded by over 100 paralogues. We see an intriguing linkage between the absence of any known photosensory proteins in a blind organism and the additional absence of canonical circadian clock genes. The phylogenetic position of myriapods allows us to identify where in arthropod phylogeny several particular molecular mechanisms and traits emerged. For example, we conclude that juvenile hormone signalling evolved with the emergence of the exoskeleton in the arthropods and that RR-1 containing cuticle proteins evolved in the lineage leading to Mandibulata. We also identify when various gene expansions and losses occurred. The genome of S. maritima offers us a unique glimpse into the ancestral arthropod genome, while also displaying many adaptations to its specific l

Published
2014

32. Exome sequencing reveals MCM8 mutation underlies ovarian failure and chromosomal instability

Author

AlAsiri, Saleh, primary, Basit, Sulman, additional, Wood-Trageser, Michelle A., additional, Yatsenko, Svetlana A., additional, Jeffries, Elizabeth P., additional, Surti, Urvashi, additional, Ketterer, Deborah M., additional, Afzal, Sibtain, additional, Ramzan, Khushnooda, additional, Faiyaz-Ul Haque, Muhammad, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Trakselis, Michael A., additional, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar, additional

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2014
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33. Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

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Richards, Stephen, Gibbs, Richard A., Gerardo, Nicole M., Moran, Nancy, Nakabachi, Atsushi, Stern, David, Tagu, Denis, Wilson, Alex C. C., Muzny, Donna, Kovar, Christie, Cree, Andy, Chacko, Joseph, Chandrabose, Mimi N., Dao, Marvin Diep, Dinh, Huyen H., Gabisi, Ramatu Ayiesha, Hines, Sandra, Hume, Jennifer, Jhangian, Shalini N., Joshi, Vandita, Lewis, Lora R., Liu, Yih-shin, Lopez, John, Morgan, Margaret B., Nguyen, Ngoc Bich, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O., Ruiz, San Juana, Santibanez, Jireh, Wright, Rita A., Fowler, Gerald R., Hitchens, Matthew E., Lozado, Ryan J., Moen, Charles, Steffen, David, Warren, James T., Zhang, Jingkun, Nazareth, Lynne V., Chavez, Dean, Davis, Clay, Lee, Sandra L., Patel, Bella Mayurkumar, Pu, Ling-Ling, Bell, Stephanie N., Johnson, Angela Jolivet, Vattathil, Selina, Williams, Rex L., Jr., Shigenobu, Shuji, Dang, Phat M., Morioka, Mizue, Fukatsu, Takema, Kudo, Toshiaki, Miyagishima, Shin-ya, Jiang, Huaiyang, Worley, Kim C., Legeai, Fabrice, Gauthier, Jean-Pierre, Collin, Olivier, Zhang, Lan, Chen, Hsiu-Chuan, Ermolaeva, Olga, Hlavina, Wratko, Kapustin, Yuri, Kiryutin, Boris, Kitts, Paul, Maglott, Donna, Murphy, Terence, Pruitt, Kim, Sapojnikov, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Thibaud-Nissen, Francoise, Camara, Francisco, Guigo, Roderic, Stanke, Mario, Solovyev, Victor, Kosarev, Peter, Gilbert, Don, Gabaldon, Toni, Huerta-Cepas, Jaime, Marcet-Houben, Marina, Pignatelli, Miguel, Moya, Andres, Rispe, Claude, Ollivier, Morgane, Quesneville, Hadi, Permal, Emmanuelle, Llorens, Carlos, Futami, Ricardo, Hedges, Dale, Robertson, Hugh M., Alioto, Tyler, Mariotti, Marco, Nikoh, Naruo, McCutcheon, John P., Burke, Gaelen, Kamins, Alexandra, Latorre, Amparo, Moran, Nancy A., Ashton, Peter, Calevro, Federica, Charles, Hubert, Colella, Stefano, Douglas, Angela, Jander, Georg, Jones, Derek H., Febvay, Gerard, Kamphuis, Lars G., Kushlan, Philip F., Macdonald, Sandy, Ramsey, John, Schwartz, Julia, Seah, Stuart, Thomas, Gavin, Vellozo, Augusto, Cass, Bodil, Degnan, Patrick, Hurwitz, Bonnie, Leonardo, Teresa, Koga, Ryuichi, Altincicek, Boran, Anselme, Caroline, Atamian, Hagop, Barribeau, Seth M., de Vos, Martin, Duncan, Elizabeth J., Evans, Jay, Ghanim, Murad, Heddi, Abdelaziz, Kaloshian, Isgouhi, Vincent-Monegat, Carole, Parker, Ben J., Perez-Brocal, Vicente, Rahbe, Yvan, Spragg, Chelsea J., Tamames, Javier, Tamarit, Daniel, Tamborindeguy, Cecilia, Vilcinskas, Andreas, Bickel, Ryan D., Brisson, Jennifer A., Butts, Thomas, Chang, Chun-che, Christiaens, Olivier, Davis, Gregory K., Duncan, Elizabeth, Ferrier, David, Iga, Masatoshi, Janssen, Ralf, Lu, Hsiao-Ling, McGregor, Alistair, Miura, Toru, Smagghe, Guy, Smith, James, van der Zee, Maurijn, Velarde, Rodrigo, Wilson, Megan, Dearden, Peter, Edwards, Owain R., Gordon, Karl, Hilgarth, Roland S., Rider, Stanley Dean, Jr., Srinivasan, Dayalan, Walsh, Thomas K., Ishikawa, Asano, Jaubert-Possamai, Stephanie, Fenton, Brian, Huang, Wenting, Rizk, Guillaume, Lavenier, Dominique, Nicolas, Jacques, Smadja, Carole, Zhou, Jing-Jiang, Vieira, Filipe G., He, Xiao-Li, Liu, Renhu, Rozas, Julio, Field, Linda M., Ashton, Peter D., Campbell, Peter, Carolan, James C., Douglas, Angela E., Fitzroy, Carol I. J., Reardon, Karen T., Reeck, Gerald R., Singh, Karam, Wilkinson, Thomas L., Huybrechts, Jurgen, Abdel-latief, Mohatmed, Robichon, Alain, Veenstra, Jan A., Hauser, Frank, Cazzamali, Giuseppe, Schneider, Martina, Williamson, Michael, Stafflinger, Elisabeth, Hansen, Karina K., Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P., Price, Daniel R. G., Caillaud, Marina, van Fleet, Eric, Ren, Qinghu, Gatehouse, John A., Brault, Veronique, Monsion, Baptiste, Diaz, Jason, Hunnicutt, Laura, Ju, Ho-Jong, Pechuan, Ximo, Aguilar, Jose, Cortes, Teresa, Ortiz-Rivas, Benjamin, Martinez-Torres, David, Dombrovsky, Aviv, Dale, Richard P., Davies, T. G. Emyr, Williamson, Martin S., Jones, Andrew, Sattelle, David, Williamson, Sally, Wolstenholme, Adrian, Cottret, Ludovic, Sagot, Marie France, Heckel, David G., Hunter, Wayne, Richards, Stephen, Gibbs, Richard A., Gerardo, Nicole M., Moran, Nancy, Nakabachi, Atsushi, Stern, David, Tagu, Denis, Wilson, Alex C. C., Muzny, Donna, Kovar, Christie, Cree, Andy, Chacko, Joseph, Chandrabose, Mimi N., Dao, Marvin Diep, Dinh, Huyen H., Gabisi, Ramatu Ayiesha, Hines, Sandra, Hume, Jennifer, Jhangian, Shalini N., Joshi, Vandita, Lewis, Lora R., Liu, Yih-shin, Lopez, John, Morgan, Margaret B., Nguyen, Ngoc Bich, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O., Ruiz, San Juana, Santibanez, Jireh, Wright, Rita A., Fowler, Gerald R., Hitchens, Matthew E., Lozado, Ryan J., Moen, Charles, Steffen, David, Warren, James T., Zhang, Jingkun, Nazareth, Lynne V., Chavez, Dean, Davis, Clay, Lee, Sandra L., Patel, Bella Mayurkumar, Pu, Ling-Ling, Bell, Stephanie N., Johnson, Angela Jolivet, Vattathil, Selina, Williams, Rex L., Jr., Shigenobu, Shuji, Dang, Phat M., Morioka, Mizue, Fukatsu, Takema, Kudo, Toshiaki, Miyagishima, Shin-ya, Jiang, Huaiyang, Worley, Kim C., Legeai, Fabrice, Gauthier, Jean-Pierre, Collin, Olivier, Zhang, Lan, Chen, Hsiu-Chuan, Ermolaeva, Olga, Hlavina, Wratko, Kapustin, Yuri, Kiryutin, Boris, Kitts, Paul, Maglott, Donna, Murphy, Terence, Pruitt, Kim, Sapojnikov, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Thibaud-Nissen, Francoise, Camara, Francisco, Guigo, Roderic, Stanke, Mario, Solovyev, Victor, Kosarev, Peter, Gilbert, Don, Gabaldon, Toni, Huerta-Cepas, Jaime, Marcet-Houben, Marina, Pignatelli, Miguel, Moya, Andres, Rispe, Claude, Ollivier, Morgane, Quesneville, Hadi, Permal, Emmanuelle, Llorens, Carlos, Futami, Ricardo, Hedges, Dale, Robertson, Hugh M., Alioto, Tyler, Mariotti, Marco, Nikoh, Naruo, McCutcheon, John P., Burke, Gaelen, Kamins, Alexandra, Latorre, Amparo, Moran, Nancy A., Ashton, Peter, Calevro, Federica, Charles, Hubert, Colella, Stefano, Douglas, Angela, Jander, Georg, Jones, Derek H., Febvay, Gerard, Kamphuis, Lars G., Kushlan, Philip F., Macdonald, Sandy, Ramsey, John, Schwartz, Julia, Seah, Stuart, Thomas, Gavin, Vellozo, Augusto, Cass, Bodil, Degnan, Patrick, Hurwitz, Bonnie, Leonardo, Teresa, Koga, Ryuichi, Altincicek, Boran, Anselme, Caroline, Atamian, Hagop, Barribeau, Seth M., de Vos, Martin, Duncan, Elizabeth J., Evans, Jay, Ghanim, Murad, Heddi, Abdelaziz, Kaloshian, Isgouhi, Vincent-Monegat, Carole, Parker, Ben J., Perez-Brocal, Vicente, Rahbe, Yvan, Spragg, Chelsea J., Tamames, Javier, Tamarit, Daniel, Tamborindeguy, Cecilia, Vilcinskas, Andreas, Bickel, Ryan D., Brisson, Jennifer A., Butts, Thomas, Chang, Chun-che, Christiaens, Olivier, Davis, Gregory K., Duncan, Elizabeth, Ferrier, David, Iga, Masatoshi, Janssen, Ralf, Lu, Hsiao-Ling, McGregor, Alistair, Miura, Toru, Smagghe, Guy, Smith, James, van der Zee, Maurijn, Velarde, Rodrigo, Wilson, Megan, Dearden, Peter, Edwards, Owain R., Gordon, Karl, Hilgarth, Roland S., Rider, Stanley Dean, Jr., Srinivasan, Dayalan, Walsh, Thomas K., Ishikawa, Asano, Jaubert-Possamai, Stephanie, Fenton, Brian, Huang, Wenting, Rizk, Guillaume, Lavenier, Dominique, Nicolas, Jacques, Smadja, Carole, Zhou, Jing-Jiang, Vieira, Filipe G., He, Xiao-Li, Liu, Renhu, Rozas, Julio, Field, Linda M., Ashton, Peter D., Campbell, Peter, Carolan, James C., Douglas, Angela E., Fitzroy, Carol I. J., Reardon, Karen T., Reeck, Gerald R., Singh, Karam, Wilkinson, Thomas L., Huybrechts, Jurgen, Abdel-latief, Mohatmed, Robichon, Alain, Veenstra, Jan A., Hauser, Frank, Cazzamali, Giuseppe, Schneider, Martina, Williamson, Michael, Stafflinger, Elisabeth, Hansen, Karina K., Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P., Price, Daniel R. G., Caillaud, Marina, van Fleet, Eric, Ren, Qinghu, Gatehouse, John A., Brault, Veronique, Monsion, Baptiste, Diaz, Jason, Hunnicutt, Laura, Ju, Ho-Jong, Pechuan, Ximo, Aguilar, Jose, Cortes, Teresa, Ortiz-Rivas, Benjamin, Martinez-Torres, David, Dombrovsky, Aviv, Dale, Richard P., Davies, T. G. Emyr, Williamson, Martin S., Jones, Andrew, Sattelle, David, Williamson, Sally, Wolstenholme, Adrian, Cottret, Ludovic, Sagot, Marie France, Heckel, David G., and Hunter, Wayne

Abstract

Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme phenotypic plasticity. Here we present the 464 Mb draft genome assembly of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. This first published whole genome sequence of a basal hemimetabolous insect provides an outgroup to the multiple published genomes of holometabolous insects. Pea aphids are host-plant specialists, they can reproduce both sexually and asexually, and they have coevolved with an obligate bacterial symbiont. Here we highlight findings from whole genome analysis that may be related to these unusual biological features. These findings include discovery of extensive gene duplication in more than 2000 gene families as well as loss of evolutionarily conserved genes. Gene family expansions relative to other published genomes include genes involved in chromatin modification, miRNA synthesis, and sugar transport. Gene losses include genes central to the IMD immune pathway, selenoprotein utilization, purine salvage, and the entire urea cycle. The pea aphid genome reveals that only a limited number of genes have been acquired from bacteria; thus the reduced gene count of Buchnera does not reflect gene transfer to the host genome. The inventory of metabolic genes in the pea aphid genome suggests that there is extensive metabolite exchange between the aphid and Buchnera, including sharing of amino acid biosynthesis between the aphid and Buchnera. The pea aphid genome provides a foundation for post-genomic studies of fundamental biological questions and applied agricultural problems.

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2010
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34. Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

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Werren, John H, Richards, Stephen, Desjardins, Christopher A, Niehuis, Oliver, Gadau, Jürgen, Colbourne, John K, Beukeboom, Leo W, Desplan, Claude, Elsik, Christine G, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J P, Kitts, Paul, Lynch, Jeremy A, Murphy, Terence, Oliveira, Deodoro C S G, Smith, Christopher D, van de Zande, Louis, Worley, Kim C, Zdobnov, Evgeny M, Aerts, Maarten, Albert, Stefan, Anaya, Victor H, Anzola, Juan M, Barchuk, Angel R, Behura, Susanta K, Bera, Agata N, Berenbaum, May R, Bertossa, Rinaldo C, Bitondi, Márcia M G, Bordenstein, Seth R, Bork, Peer, Bornberg-Bauer, Erich, Brunain, Marleen, Cazzamali, Giuseppe, Chaboub, Lesley, Chacko, Joseph, Chavez, Dean, Childers, Christopher P, Choi, Jeong-Hyeon, Clark, Michael E, Claudianos, Charles, Clinton, Rochelle A, Cree, Andrew G, Cristino, Alexandre S, Dang, Phat M, Darby, Alistair C, de Graaf, Dirk C, Devreese, Bart, Dinh, Huyen H, Edwards, Rachel, Elango, Navin, Elhaik, Eran, Ermolaeva, Olga, Evans, Jay D, Foret, Sylvain, Fowler, Gerald R, Gerlach, Daniel, Gibson, Joshua D, Gilbert, Donald G, Graur, Dan, Gründer, Stefan, Hagen, Darren E, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Hultmark, Dan, Hunter, Henry C, Hurst, Gregory D D, Jhangian, Shalini N, Jiang, Huaiyang, Johnson, Reed M, Jones, Andrew K, Junier, Thomas, Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Kamping, Albert, Kapustin, Yuri, Kechavarzi, Bobak, Kim, Jaebum, Kim, Jay, Kiryutin, Boris, Koevoets, Tosca, Kovar, Christie L, Kriventseva, Evgenia V, Kucharski, Robert, Lee, Heewook, Lee, Sandra L, Lees, Kristin, Lewis, Lora R, Loehlin, David W, Logsdon, John M, Lopez, Jacqueline A, Lozado, Ryan J, Maglott, Donna, Maleszka, Ryszard, Mayampurath, Anoop, Mazur, Danielle J, McClure, Marcella A, Moore, Andrew D, Morgan, Margaret B, Muller, Jean, Munoz-Torres, Monica C, Muzny, Donna M, Nazareth, Lynne V, Neupert, Susanne, Nguyen, Ngoc B, Nunes, Francis M F, Oakeshott, John G, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O, Pannebakker, Bart A, Pejaver, Vikas R, Peng, Zuogang, Pratt, Stephen C, Predel, Reinhard, Pu, Ling-Ling, Ranson, Hilary, Raychoudhury, Rhitoban, Rechtsteiner, Andreas, Reese, Justin T, Reid, Jeffrey G, Riddle, Megan, Robertson, Hugh M, Romero-Severson, Jeanne, Rosenberg, Miriam, Sackton, Timothy B, Sattelle, David B, Schlüns, Helge, Schmitt, Thomas, Schneider, Martina, Schüler, Andreas, Schurko, Andrew M, Shuker, David M, Simões, Zilá L P, Sinha, Saurabh, Smith, Zachary, Solovyev, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Springauf, Andreas, Stafflinger, Elisabeth, Stage, Deborah E, Stanke, Mario, Tanaka, Yoshiaki, Telschow, Arndt, Trent, Carol, Vattathil, Selina, Verhulst, Eveline C, Viljakainen, Lumi, Wanner, Kevin W, Waterhouse, Robert M, Whitfield, James B, Wilkes, Timothy E, Williamson, Michael, Willis, Judith H, Wolschin, Florian, Wyder, Stefan, Yamada, Takuji, Yi, Soojin V, Zecher, Courtney N, Zhang, Lan, Gibbs, Richard A, Werren, John H, Richards, Stephen, Desjardins, Christopher A, Niehuis, Oliver, Gadau, Jürgen, Colbourne, John K, Beukeboom, Leo W, Desplan, Claude, Elsik, Christine G, Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J P, Kitts, Paul, Lynch, Jeremy A, Murphy, Terence, Oliveira, Deodoro C S G, Smith, Christopher D, van de Zande, Louis, Worley, Kim C, Zdobnov, Evgeny M, Aerts, Maarten, Albert, Stefan, Anaya, Victor H, Anzola, Juan M, Barchuk, Angel R, Behura, Susanta K, Bera, Agata N, Berenbaum, May R, Bertossa, Rinaldo C, Bitondi, Márcia M G, Bordenstein, Seth R, Bork, Peer, Bornberg-Bauer, Erich, Brunain, Marleen, Cazzamali, Giuseppe, Chaboub, Lesley, Chacko, Joseph, Chavez, Dean, Childers, Christopher P, Choi, Jeong-Hyeon, Clark, Michael E, Claudianos, Charles, Clinton, Rochelle A, Cree, Andrew G, Cristino, Alexandre S, Dang, Phat M, Darby, Alistair C, de Graaf, Dirk C, Devreese, Bart, Dinh, Huyen H, Edwards, Rachel, Elango, Navin, Elhaik, Eran, Ermolaeva, Olga, Evans, Jay D, Foret, Sylvain, Fowler, Gerald R, Gerlach, Daniel, Gibson, Joshua D, Gilbert, Donald G, Graur, Dan, Gründer, Stefan, Hagen, Darren E, Han, Yi, Hauser, Frank, Hultmark, Dan, Hunter, Henry C, Hurst, Gregory D D, Jhangian, Shalini N, Jiang, Huaiyang, Johnson, Reed M, Jones, Andrew K, Junier, Thomas, Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Kamping, Albert, Kapustin, Yuri, Kechavarzi, Bobak, Kim, Jaebum, Kim, Jay, Kiryutin, Boris, Koevoets, Tosca, Kovar, Christie L, Kriventseva, Evgenia V, Kucharski, Robert, Lee, Heewook, Lee, Sandra L, Lees, Kristin, Lewis, Lora R, Loehlin, David W, Logsdon, John M, Lopez, Jacqueline A, Lozado, Ryan J, Maglott, Donna, Maleszka, Ryszard, Mayampurath, Anoop, Mazur, Danielle J, McClure, Marcella A, Moore, Andrew D, Morgan, Margaret B, Muller, Jean, Munoz-Torres, Monica C, Muzny, Donna M, Nazareth, Lynne V, Neupert, Susanne, Nguyen, Ngoc B, Nunes, Francis M F, Oakeshott, John G, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O, Pannebakker, Bart A, Pejaver, Vikas R, Peng, Zuogang, Pratt, Stephen C, Predel, Reinhard, Pu, Ling-Ling, Ranson, Hilary, Raychoudhury, Rhitoban, Rechtsteiner, Andreas, Reese, Justin T, Reid, Jeffrey G, Riddle, Megan, Robertson, Hugh M, Romero-Severson, Jeanne, Rosenberg, Miriam, Sackton, Timothy B, Sattelle, David B, Schlüns, Helge, Schmitt, Thomas, Schneider, Martina, Schüler, Andreas, Schurko, Andrew M, Shuker, David M, Simões, Zilá L P, Sinha, Saurabh, Smith, Zachary, Solovyev, Victor, Souvorov, Alexandre, Springauf, Andreas, Stafflinger, Elisabeth, Stage, Deborah E, Stanke, Mario, Tanaka, Yoshiaki, Telschow, Arndt, Trent, Carol, Vattathil, Selina, Verhulst, Eveline C, Viljakainen, Lumi, Wanner, Kevin W, Waterhouse, Robert M, Whitfield, James B, Wilkes, Timothy E, Williamson, Michael, Willis, Judith H, Wolschin, Florian, Wyder, Stefan, Yamada, Takuji, Yi, Soojin V, Zecher, Courtney N, Zhang, Lan, and Gibbs, Richard A

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We report here genome sequences and comparative analyses of three closely related parasitoid wasps: Nasonia vitripennis, N. giraulti, and N. longicornis. Parasitoids are important regulators of arthropod populations, including major agricultural pests and disease vectors, and Nasonia is an emerging genetic model, particularly for evolutionary and developmental genetics. Key findings include the identification of a functional DNA methylation tool kit; hymenopteran-specific genes including diverse venoms; lateral gene transfers among Pox viruses, Wolbachia, and Nasonia; and the rapid evolution of genes involved in nuclear-mitochondrial interactions that are implicated in speciation. Newly developed genome resources advance Nasonia for genetic research, accelerate mapping and cloning of quantitative trait loci, and will ultimately provide tools and knowledge for further increasing the utility of parasitoids as pest insect-control agents.

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2010
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35. Analyses of deep mammalian sequence alignments and constraint predictions for 1% of the human genome

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Margulies, Elliott H, Cooper, Gregory M, Asimenos, George, Thomas, Daryl J, Dewey, Colin N, Siepel, Adam, Birney, Ewan, Keefe, Damian, Schwartz, Ariel S, Hou, Minmei, Taylor, James, Nikolaev, Sergey, Montoya-Burgos, Juan I, Löytynoja, Ari, Whelan, Simon, Pardi, Fabio, Massingham, Tim, Brown, James B, Bickel, Peter, Holmes, Ian, Mullikin, James C, Ureta-Vidal, Abel, Paten, Benedict, Stone, Eric A, Rosenbloom, Kate R, Kent, W James, Bouffard, Gerard G, Guan, Xiaobin, Hansen, Nancy F, Idol, Jacquelyn R, Maduro, Valerie V B, Maskeri, Baishali, McDowell, Jennifer C, Park, Morgan, Thomas, Pamela J, Young, Alice C, Blakesley, Robert W, Muzny, Donna M, Sodergren, Erica, Wheeler, David A, Worley, Kim C, Jiang, Huaiyang, Weinstock, George M, Gibbs, Richard A, Graves, Tina, Fulton, Robert, Mardis, Elaine R, Wilson, Richard K, Clamp, Michele, Cuff, James, Gnerre, Sante, Jaffe, David B, Chang, Jean L, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Lander, Eric S, Hinrichs, Angie, Trumbower, Heather, Clawson, Hiram, Zweig, Ann, Kuhn, Robert M, Barber, Galt, Harte, Rachel, Karolchik, Donna, Field, Matthew A, Moore, Richard A, Matthewson, Carrie A, Schein, Jacqueline E, Marra, Marco A, Antonarakis, Stylianos E, Batzoglou, Serafim, Goldman, Nick, Hardison, Ross, Haussler, David, Miller, Webb, Pachter, Lior, Green, Eric D, Sidow, Arend, Margulies, Elliott H, Cooper, Gregory M, Asimenos, George, Thomas, Daryl J, Dewey, Colin N, Siepel, Adam, Birney, Ewan, Keefe, Damian, Schwartz, Ariel S, Hou, Minmei, Taylor, James, Nikolaev, Sergey, Montoya-Burgos, Juan I, Löytynoja, Ari, Whelan, Simon, Pardi, Fabio, Massingham, Tim, Brown, James B, Bickel, Peter, Holmes, Ian, Mullikin, James C, Ureta-Vidal, Abel, Paten, Benedict, Stone, Eric A, Rosenbloom, Kate R, Kent, W James, Bouffard, Gerard G, Guan, Xiaobin, Hansen, Nancy F, Idol, Jacquelyn R, Maduro, Valerie V B, Maskeri, Baishali, McDowell, Jennifer C, Park, Morgan, Thomas, Pamela J, Young, Alice C, Blakesley, Robert W, Muzny, Donna M, Sodergren, Erica, Wheeler, David A, Worley, Kim C, Jiang, Huaiyang, Weinstock, George M, Gibbs, Richard A, Graves, Tina, Fulton, Robert, Mardis, Elaine R, Wilson, Richard K, Clamp, Michele, Cuff, James, Gnerre, Sante, Jaffe, David B, Chang, Jean L, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Lander, Eric S, Hinrichs, Angie, Trumbower, Heather, Clawson, Hiram, Zweig, Ann, Kuhn, Robert M, Barber, Galt, Harte, Rachel, Karolchik, Donna, Field, Matthew A, Moore, Richard A, Matthewson, Carrie A, Schein, Jacqueline E, Marra, Marco A, Antonarakis, Stylianos E, Batzoglou, Serafim, Goldman, Nick, Hardison, Ross, Haussler, David, Miller, Webb, Pachter, Lior, Green, Eric D, and Sidow, Arend

Abstract

A key component of the ongoing ENCODE project involves rigorous comparative sequence analyses for the initially targeted 1% of the human genome. Here, we present orthologous sequence generation, alignment, and evolutionary constraint analyses of 23 mammalian species for all ENCODE targets. Alignments were generated using four different methods; comparisons of these methods reveal large-scale consistency but substantial differences in terms of small genomic rearrangements, sensitivity (sequence coverage), and specificity (alignment accuracy). We describe the quantitative and qualitative trade-offs concomitant with alignment method choice and the levels of technical error that need to be accounted for in applications that require multisequence alignments. Using the generated alignments, we identified constrained regions using three different methods. While the different constraint-detecting methods are in general agreement, there are important discrepancies relating to both the underlying alignments and the specific algorithms. However, by integrating the results across the alignments and constraint-detecting methods, we produced constraint annotations that were found to be robust based on multiple independent measures. Analyses of these annotations illustrate that most classes of experimentally annotated functional elements are enriched for constrained sequences; however, large portions of each class (with the exception of protein-coding sequences) do not overlap constrained regions. The latter elements might not be under primary sequence constraint, might not be constrained across all mammals, or might have expendable molecular functions. Conversely, 40% of the constrained sequences do not overlap any of the functional elements that have been experimentally identified. Together, these findings demonstrate and quantify how many genomic functional elements await basic molecular characterization.

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2007
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36. Bos taurus genome assembly

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Liu, Yue, primary, Qin, Xiang, additional, Song, Xing-Zhi Henry, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Shen, Yufeng, additional, Durbin, K James, additional, Lien, Sigbjørn, additional, Kent, Matthew Peter, additional, Sodeland, Marte, additional, Ren, Yanru, additional, Zhang, Lan, additional, Sodergren, Erica, additional, Havlak, Paul, additional, Worley, Kim C, additional, Weinstock, George M, additional, and Gibbs, Richard A, additional

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2009
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37. Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF

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Bourgogne, Agathe, primary, Garsin, Danielle A, additional, Qin, Xiang, additional, Singh, Kavindra V, additional, Sillanpaa, Jouko, additional, Yerrapragada, Shailaja, additional, Ding, Yan, additional, Dugan-Rocha, Shannon, additional, Buhay, Christian, additional, Shen, Hua, additional, Chen, Guan, additional, Williams, Gabrielle, additional, Muzny, Donna, additional, Maadani, Arash, additional, Fox, Kristina A, additional, Gioia, Jason, additional, Chen, Lei, additional, Shang, Yue, additional, Arias, Cesar A, additional, Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R, additional, Zhao, Meng, additional, Prakash, Vittal P, additional, Chowdhury, Shahreen, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Gibbs, Richard A, additional, Murray, Barbara E, additional, Highlander, Sarah K, additional, and Weinstock, George M, additional

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2008
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38. Subtle genetic changes enhance virulence of methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

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Highlander, Sarah K, primary, Hultén, Kristina G, additional, Qin, Xiang, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Yerrapragada, Shailaja, additional, Mason, Edward O, additional, Shang, Yue, additional, Williams, Tiffany M, additional, Fortunov, Régine M, additional, Liu, Yamei, additional, Igboeli, Okezie, additional, Petrosino, Joseph, additional, Tirumalai, Madhan, additional, Uzman, Akif, additional, Fox, George E, additional, Cardenas, Ana Maria, additional, Muzny, Donna M, additional, Hemphill, Lisa, additional, Ding, Yan, additional, Dugan, Shannon, additional, Blyth, Peter R, additional, Buhay, Christian J, additional, Dinh, Huyen H, additional, Hawes, Alicia C, additional, Holder, Michael, additional, Kovar, Christie L, additional, Lee, Sandra L, additional, Liu, Wen, additional, Nazareth, Lynne V, additional, Wang, Qiaoyan, additional, Zhou, Jianling, additional, Kaplan, Sheldon L, additional, and Weinstock, George M, additional

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2007
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39. Paradoxical DNA Repair and Peroxide Resistance Gene Conservation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032

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Gioia, Jason, primary, Yerrapragada, Shailaja, additional, Qin, Xiang, additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Igboeli, Okezie C., additional, Muzny, Donna, additional, Dugan-Rocha, Shannon, additional, Ding, Yan, additional, Hawes, Alicia, additional, Liu, Wen, additional, Perez, Lesette, additional, Kovar, Christie, additional, Dinh, Huyen, additional, Lee, Sandra, additional, Nazareth, Lynne, additional, Blyth, Peter, additional, Holder, Michael, additional, Buhay, Christian, additional, Tirumalai, Madhan R., additional, Liu, Yamei, additional, Dasgupta, Indrani, additional, Bokhetache, Lina, additional, Fujita, Masaya, additional, Karouia, Fathi, additional, Eswara Moorthy, Prahathees, additional, Siefert, Johnathan, additional, Uzman, Akif, additional, Buzumbo, Prince, additional, Verma, Avani, additional, Zwiya, Hiba, additional, McWilliams, Brian D., additional, Olowu, Adeola, additional, Clinkenbeard, Kenneth D., additional, Newcombe, David, additional, Golebiewski, Lisa, additional, Petrosino, Joseph F., additional, Nicholson, Wayne L., additional, Fox, George E., additional, Venkateswaran, Kasthuri, additional, Highlander, Sarah K., additional, and Weinstock, George M., additional

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2007
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41. Analyses of deep mammalian sequence alignments and constraint predictions for 1% of the human genome

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Margulies, Elliott H., primary, Cooper, Gregory M., additional, Asimenos, George, additional, Thomas, Daryl J., additional, Dewey, Colin N., additional, Siepel, Adam, additional, Birney, Ewan, additional, Keefe, Damian, additional, Schwartz, Ariel S., additional, Hou, Minmei, additional, Taylor, James, additional, Nikolaev, Sergey, additional, Montoya-Burgos, Juan I., additional, Löytynoja, Ari, additional, Whelan, Simon, additional, Pardi, Fabio, additional, Massingham, Tim, additional, Brown, James B., additional, Bickel, Peter, additional, Holmes, Ian, additional, Mullikin, James C., additional, Ureta-Vidal, Abel, additional, Paten, Benedict, additional, Stone, Eric A., additional, Rosenbloom, Kate R., additional, Kent, W. James, additional, Bouffard, Gerard G., additional, Guan, Xiaobin, additional, Hansen, Nancy F., additional, Idol, Jacquelyn R., additional, Maduro, Valerie V.B., additional, Maskeri, Baishali, additional, McDowell, Jennifer C., additional, Park, Morgan, additional, Thomas, Pamela J., additional, Young, Alice C., additional, Blakesley, Robert W., additional, Muzny, Donna M., additional, Sodergren, Erica, additional, Wheeler, David A., additional, Worley, Kim C., additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Weinstock, George M., additional, Gibbs, Richard A., additional, Graves, Tina, additional, Fulton, Robert, additional, Mardis, Elaine R., additional, Wilson, Richard K., additional, Clamp, Michele, additional, Cuff, James, additional, Gnerre, Sante, additional, Jaffe, David B., additional, Chang, Jean L., additional, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, additional, Lander, Eric S., additional, Hinrichs, Angie, additional, Trumbower, Heather, additional, Clawson, Hiram, additional, Zweig, Ann, additional, Kuhn, Robert M., additional, Barber, Galt, additional, Harte, Rachel, additional, Karolchik, Donna, additional, Field, Matthew A., additional, Moore, Richard A., additional, Matthewson, Carrie A., additional, Schein, Jacqueline E., additional, Marra, Marco A., additional, Antonarakis, Stylianos E., additional, Batzoglou, Serafim, additional, Goldman, Nick, additional, Hardison, Ross, additional, Haussler, David, additional, Miller, Webb, additional, Pachter, Lior, additional, Green, Eric D., additional, and Sidow, Arend, additional

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2007
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42. Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome

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Gibbs, Richard A., primary, Rogers, Jeffrey, additional, Katze, Michael G., additional, Bumgarner, Roger, additional, Weinstock, George M., additional, Mardis, Elaine R., additional, Remington, Karin A., additional, Strausberg, Robert L., additional, Venter, J. Craig, additional, Wilson, Richard K., additional, Batzer, Mark A., additional, Bustamante, Carlos D., additional, Eichler, Evan E., additional, Hahn, Matthew W., additional, Hardison, Ross C., additional, Makova, Kateryna D., additional, Miller, Webb, additional, Milosavljevic, Aleksandar, additional, Palermo, Robert E., additional, Siepel, Adam, additional, Sikela, James M., additional, Attaway, Tony, additional, Bell, Stephanie, additional, Bernard, Kelly E., additional, Buhay, Christian J., additional, Chandrabose, Mimi N., additional, Dao, Marvin, additional, Davis, Clay, additional, Delehaunty, Kimberly D., additional, Ding, Yan, additional, Dinh, Huyen H., additional, Dugan-Rocha, Shannon, additional, Fulton, Lucinda A., additional, Gabisi, Ramatu Ayiesha, additional, Garner, Toni T., additional, Godfrey, Jennifer, additional, Hawes, Alicia C., additional, Hernandez, Judith, additional, Hines, Sandra, additional, Holder, Michael, additional, Hume, Jennifer, additional, Jhangiani, Shalini N., additional, Joshi, Vandita, additional, Khan, Ziad Mohid, additional, Kirkness, Ewen F., additional, Cree, Andrew, additional, Fowler, R. Gerald, additional, Lee, Sandra, additional, Lewis, Lora R., additional, Li, Zhangwan, additional, Liu, Yih-shin, additional, Moore, Stephanie M., additional, Muzny, Donna, additional, Nazareth, Lynne V., additional, Ngo, Dinh Ngoc, additional, Okwuonu, Geoffrey O., additional, Pai, Grace, additional, Parker, David, additional, Paul, Heidie A., additional, Pfannkoch, Cynthia, additional, Pohl, Craig S., additional, Rogers, Yu-Hui, additional, Ruiz, San Juana, additional, Sabo, Aniko, additional, Santibanez, Jireh, additional, Schneider, Brian W., additional, Smith, Scott M., additional, Sodergren, Erica, additional, Svatek, Amanda F., additional, Utterback, Teresa R., additional, Vattathil, Selina, additional, Warren, Wesley, additional, White, Courtney Sherell, additional, Chinwalla, Asif T., additional, Feng, Yucheng, additional, Halpern, Aaron L., additional, Hillier, LaDeana W., additional, Huang, Xiaoqiu, additional, Minx, Pat, additional, Nelson, Joanne O., additional, Pepin, Kymberlie H., additional, Qin, Xiang, additional, Sutton, Granger G., additional, Venter, Eli, additional, Walenz, Brian P., additional, Wallis, John W., additional, Worley, Kim C., additional, Yang, Shiaw-Pyng, additional, Jones, Steven M., additional, Marra, Marco A., additional, Rocchi, Mariano, additional, Schein, Jacqueline E., additional, Baertsch, Robert, additional, Clarke, Laura, additional, Csürös, Miklós, additional, Glasscock, Jarret, additional, Harris, R. Alan, additional, Havlak, Paul, additional, Jackson, Andrew R., additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Liu, Yue, additional, Messina, David N., additional, Shen, Yufeng, additional, Song, Henry Xing-Zhi, additional, Wylie, Todd, additional, Zhang, Lan, additional, Birney, Ewan, additional, Han, Kyudong, additional, Konkel, Miriam K., additional, Lee, Jungnam, additional, Smit, Arian F. A., additional, Ullmer, Brygg, additional, Wang, Hui, additional, Xing, Jinchuan, additional, Burhans, Richard, additional, Cheng, Ze, additional, Karro, John E., additional, Ma, Jian, additional, Raney, Brian, additional, She, Xinwei, additional, Cox, Michael J., additional, Demuth, Jeffery P., additional, Dumas, Laura J., additional, Han, Sang-Gook, additional, Hopkins, Janet, additional, Karimpour-Fard, Anis, additional, Kim, Young H., additional, Pollack, Jonathan R., additional, Vinar, Tomas, additional, Addo-Quaye, Charles, additional, Degenhardt, Jeremiah, additional, Denby, Alexandra, additional, Hubisz, Melissa J., additional, Indap, Amit, additional, Kosiol, Carolin, additional, Lahn, Bruce T., additional, Lawson, Heather A., additional, Marklein, Alison, additional, Nielsen, Rasmus, additional, Vallender, Eric J., additional, Clark, Andrew G., additional, Ferguson, Betsy, additional, Hernandez, Ryan D., additional, Hirani, Kashif, additional, Kehrer-Sawatzki, Hildegard, additional, Kolb, Jessica, additional, Patil, Shobha, additional, Pu, Ling-Ling, additional, Ren, Yanru, additional, Smith, David Glenn, additional, Wheeler, David A., additional, Schenck, Ian, additional, Ball, Edward V., additional, Chen, Rui, additional, Cooper, David N., additional, Giardine, Belinda, additional, Hsu, Fan, additional, Kent, W. James, additional, Lesk, Arthur, additional, Nelson, David L., additional, O'Brien, William E., additional, Prüfer, Kay, additional, Stenson, Peter D., additional, Wallace, James C., additional, Ke, Hui, additional, Liu, Xiao-Ming, additional, Wang, Peng, additional, Xiang, Andy Peng, additional, Yang, Fan, additional, Barber, Galt P., additional, Haussler, David, additional, Karolchik, Donna, additional, Kern, Andy D., additional, Kuhn, Robert M., additional, Smith, Kayla E., additional, and Zwieg, Ann S., additional

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2007
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43. Community annotation: Procedures, protocols, and supporting tools: Table 1.

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Elsik, Christine G., primary, Worley, Kim C., additional, Zhang, Lan, additional, Milshina, Natalia V., additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Reese, Justin T., additional, Childs, Kevin L., additional, Venkatraman, Anand, additional, Dickens, C. Michael, additional, Weinstock, George M., additional, and Gibbs, Richard A., additional

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2006
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44. Complete Genome Sequence ofRickettsia typhiand Comparison with Sequences of Other Rickettsiae

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McLeod, Michael P., primary, Qin, Xiang, additional, Karpathy, Sandor E., additional, Gioia, Jason, additional, Highlander, Sarah K., additional, Fox, George E., additional, McNeill, Thomas Z., additional, Jiang, Huaiyang, additional, Muzny, Donna, additional, Jacob, Leni S., additional, Hawes, Alicia C., additional, Sodergren, Erica, additional, Gill, Rachel, additional, Hume, Jennifer, additional, Morgan, Maggie, additional, Fan, Guangwei, additional, Amin, Anita G., additional, Gibbs, Richard A., additional, Hong, Chao, additional, Yu, Xue-jie, additional, Walker, David H., additional, and Weinstock, George M., additional

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2004
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45. MCM8 and MCM9 Nucleotide Variants in Women With Primary Ovarian Insufficiency

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Jelena Matic, Michelle A. Wood-Trageser, Massimiliano Cocca, Selma F. Witchel, Huaiyang Jiang, Caterina Barbieri, Jérôme Dulon, Anne Bachelot, Swapna S. Desai, Philippe Touraine, Jaqueline Chipkin, Aleksandar Rajkovic, Daniela Toniolo, Cinzia Sala, Desai, Swapna, Wood Trageser, Michelle, Matic, Jelena, Chipkin, Jaqueline, Jiang, Huaiyang, Bachelot, Anne, Dulon, Jerome, Sala, Cinzia, Barbieri, CATERINA MARIA, Cocca, Massimiliano, Toniolo, Daniela, Touraine, Philippe, Witchel, Selma, and Rajkovic, Aleksandar

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0301 basic medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Clinical Biochemistry, Biochemistry (medical), Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Aging, DNA Repair, DNA repair, DNA damage, Biology, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, Bioinformatics, 03 medical and health sciences, Exon, Follicle-stimulating hormone, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Nucleotide, Gene, Clinical Research Articles, chemistry.chemical_classification, Genetics, MCM8, Minichromosome Maintenance Proteins, Heterozygote advantage, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Diabetes and Metabolism, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, Female, DNA Damage
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of variants, including biallelic pathogenic variants, in MCM8 and MCM9, other genes related to MCM8/9 and DNA damage repair (DDR) pathway in participants with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI). DESIGN: MCM8, MCM9 and genes encoding DDR proteins that have been implicated in reproductive aging were sequenced among POI participants. SETTING: Academic research institution Participants: All were diagnosed with POI prior to the age of 40 and presented with elevated FSH levels. INTERVENTIONS: None Main Outcome Measures: We identified nucleotide variants in MCM8, MCM9, and genes thought to be involved in the DNA damage response pathway and/or implicated in reproductive aging. RESULTS: MCM8 was sequenced in 155 POI participants, while MCM9 was sequenced in 151 participants. Three out of 155 (2%) participants carried possibly damaging heterozygous variants in MCM8, while 7 of 151 (5%) individuals carried possibly damaging heterozygous variants in MCM9. One participant carried a novel homozygous variant, c.1651C>T, p.Gln551* in MCM9 which is predicted to introduce a premature stop codon in exon 9. Biallelic damaging heterozygous variants in both MCM8 and MCM9 were identified in one participant. Out of a total of 10 participants carrying damaging heterozygous variants in either MCM8 or MCM9, two individuals carried heterozygous damaging variants in genes associated with either MCM8-MCM9 or DDR pathway Conclusions: We identified a significant number of potentially damaging and novel variants in MCM8 and MCM9 among participants with POI, and examined multi-allelic association with variants in DDR and MCM8/MCM9 interactome genes.

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2016

46. Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade.

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Elsik CG, Worley KC, Bennett AK, Beye M, Camara F, Childers CP, de Graaf DC, Debyser G, Deng J, Devreese B, Elhaik E, Evans JD, Foster LJ, Graur D, Guigo R, Hoff KJ, Holder ME, Hudson ME, Hunt GJ, Jiang H, Joshi V, Khetani RS, Kosarev P, Kovar CL, Ma J, Maleszka R, Moritz RF, Munoz-Torres MC, Murphy TD, Muzny DM, Newsham IF, Reese JT, Robertson HM, Robinson GE, Rueppell O, Solovyev V, Stanke M, Stolle E, Tsuruda JM, Vaerenbergh MV, Waterhouse RM, Weaver DB, Whitfield CW, Wu Y, Zdobnov EM, Zhang L, Zhu D, and Gibbs RA

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Animals, Base Composition, Databases, Genetic, Interspersed Repetitive Sequences genetics, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Open Reading Frames genetics, Peptides analysis, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Bees genetics, Genes, Insect
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Background: The first generation of genome sequence assemblies and annotations have had a significant impact upon our understanding of the biology of the sequenced species, the phylogenetic relationships among species, the study of populations within and across species, and have informed the biology of humans. As only a few Metazoan genomes are approaching finished quality (human, mouse, fly and worm), there is room for improvement of most genome assemblies. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome, published in 2006, was noted for its bimodal GC content distribution that affected the quality of the assembly in some regions and for fewer genes in the initial gene set (OGSv1.0) compared to what would be expected based on other sequenced insect genomes., Results: Here, we report an improved honey bee genome assembly (Amel_4.5) with a new gene annotation set (OGSv3.2), and show that the honey bee genome contains a number of genes similar to that of other insect genomes, contrary to what was suggested in OGSv1.0. The new genome assembly is more contiguous and complete and the new gene set includes ~5000 more protein-coding genes, 50% more than previously reported. About 1/6 of the additional genes were due to improvements to the assembly, and the remaining were inferred based on new RNAseq and protein data., Conclusions: Lessons learned from this genome upgrade have important implications for future genome sequencing projects. Furthermore, the improvements significantly enhance genomic resources for the honey bee, a key model for social behavior and essential to global ecology through pollination.

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2014
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47. Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

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Werren JH, Richards S, Desjardins CA, Niehuis O, Gadau J, Colbourne JK, Werren JH, Richards S, Desjardins CA, Niehuis O, Gadau J, Colbourne JK, Beukeboom LW, Desplan C, Elsik CG, Grimmelikhuijzen CJ, Kitts P, Lynch JA, Murphy T, Oliveira DC, Smith CD, van de Zande L, Worley KC, Zdobnov EM, Aerts M, Albert S, Anaya VH, Anzola JM, Barchuk AR, Behura SK, Bera AN, Berenbaum MR, Bertossa RC, Bitondi MM, Bordenstein SR, Bork P, Bornberg-Bauer E, Brunain M, Cazzamali G, Chaboub L, Chacko J, Chavez D, Childers CP, Choi JH, Clark ME, Claudianos C, Clinton RA, Cree AG, Cristino AS, Dang PM, Darby AC, de Graaf DC, Devreese B, Dinh HH, Edwards R, Elango N, Elhaik E, Ermolaeva O, Evans JD, Foret S, Fowler GR, Gerlach D, Gibson JD, Gilbert DG, Graur D, Gründer S, Hagen DE, Han Y, Hauser F, Hultmark D, Hunter HC 4th, Hurst GD, Jhangian SN, Jiang H, Johnson RM, Jones AK, Junier T, Kadowaki T, Kamping A, Kapustin Y, Kechavarzi B, Kim J, Kim J, Kiryutin B, Koevoets T, Kovar CL, Kriventseva EV, Kucharski R, Lee H, Lee SL, Lees K, Lewis LR, Loehlin DW, Logsdon JM Jr, Lopez JA, Lozado RJ, Maglott D, Maleszka R, Mayampurath A, Mazur DJ, McClure MA, Moore AD, Morgan MB, Muller J, Munoz-Torres MC, Muzny DM, Nazareth LV, Neupert S, Nguyen NB, Nunes FM, Oakeshott JG, Okwuonu GO, Pannebakker BA, Pejaver VR, Peng Z, Pratt SC, Predel R, Pu LL, Ranson H, Raychoudhury R, Rechtsteiner A, Reese JT, Reid JG, Riddle M, Robertson HM, Romero-Severson J, Rosenberg M, Sackton TB, Sattelle DB, Schlüns H, Schmitt T, Schneider M, Schüler A, Schurko AM, Shuker DM, Simões ZL, Sinha S, Smith Z, Solovyev V, Souvorov A, Springauf A, Stafflinger E, Stage DE, Stanke M, Tanaka Y, Telschow A, Trent C, Vattathil S, Verhulst EC, Viljakainen L, Wanner KW, Waterhouse RM, Whitfield JB, Wilkes TE, Williamson M, Willis JH, Wolschin F, Wyder S, Yamada T, Yi SV, Zecher CN, Zhang L, and Gibbs RA

Subjects
Animals, Arthropods parasitology, DNA Methylation, DNA Transposable Elements, Female, Gene Transfer, Horizontal, Genes, Insect, Genetic Speciation, Genetic Variation, Host-Parasite Interactions, Insect Proteins genetics, Insect Proteins metabolism, Insect Viruses genetics, Insecta genetics, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Quantitative Trait Loci, Recombination, Genetic, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Wasp Venoms chemistry, Wasp Venoms toxicity, Wasps physiology, Wolbachia genetics, Biological Evolution, Genome, Insect, Wasps genetics
Abstract

We report here genome sequences and comparative analyses of three closely related parasitoid wasps: Nasonia vitripennis, N. giraulti, and N. longicornis. Parasitoids are important regulators of arthropod populations, including major agricultural pests and disease vectors, and Nasonia is an emerging genetic model, particularly for evolutionary and developmental genetics. Key findings include the identification of a functional DNA methylation tool kit; hymenopteran-specific genes including diverse venoms; lateral gene transfers among Pox viruses, Wolbachia, and Nasonia; and the rapid evolution of genes involved in nuclear-mitochondrial interactions that are implicated in speciation. Newly developed genome resources advance Nasonia for genetic research, accelerate mapping and cloning of quantitative trait loci, and will ultimately provide tools and knowledge for further increasing the utility of parasitoids as pest insect-control agents.

Published
2010
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