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G3 (Bethesda) 2022 Aug 16. Epub 2022 Aug 16.

Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.

The European earwig Forficula auricularia is an important model for studies of maternal care, sexual selection, sociality and host-parasite interactions. However, detailed genetic investigations of this species are hindered by a lack of genomic resources. Here we present a high-quality hybrid genome assembly for F. Read More

J Virol 2022 Aug 16:e0077222. Epub 2022 Aug 16.

State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot and Mouth Diseases Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.

Bats are reservoirs for diverse coronaviruses, including swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV). SADS-CoV was first identified in diarrheal piglets in 2017. As a novel alphacoronavirus, SADS-CoV shares ~95% identity with bat alphacoronavirus HKU2. Read More

Mol Cell Biol 2022 Aug 16:e0024422. Epub 2022 Aug 16.

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical Schoolgrid.471403.5, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The 3' ends of eukaryotic mRNAs are generated by cleavage of nascent transcripts followed by polyadenylation, which occurs at numerous sites within 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs) but rarely within coding regions. An individual gene can yield many 3'-mRNA isoforms with distinct half-lives. We dissect the relative contributions of protein-coding sequences (open reading frames [ORFs]) and 3' UTRs to polyadenylation profiles in yeast. Read More

BMC Genomics 2022 Aug 15;23(1):594. Epub 2022 Aug 15.

Faculty of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, No. 95 of Jinhei Road, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.

Background: Carcass backfat thickness (BFT), carcass lean percentage (CLP) and carcass fat percentage (CFP) are important to the commercial pig industry. Nevertheless, the genetic architecture of BFT, CLP and CFP is still elusive. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) based on specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) to analyze seven fatness-related traits, including five BFTs, CLP, and CFP on 223 four-way crossbred pigs. Read More

Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2022 Aug 12. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

The Public Service Platform for Industrialization Development Technology of Marine Biological Medicine and Products of the State Oceanic Administration, Center of Engineering Technology Research for Microalga Germplasm Improvement of Fujian, Fujian Key Laboratory of Special Marine Bioresource Sustainable Utilization, Key Laboratory of Developmental and Neural Biology, Southern Institute of Oceanography, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China. Electronic address:

Isochrysis galbana is considered an ideal bait for functional foods and nutraceuticals of humans because of its high fucoxanthin (Fx) content. However, multi-omics analysis of the regulation networks for Fx biosynthesis in I. galbana has not been reported. Read More