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The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a popular unicellular organism for studying photosynthesis, cilia biogenesis, and micronutrient homeostasis. Ten years since its genome project was initiated an iterative process of improvements to the genome and gene predictions has propelled this organism to the forefront of the omics era. Housed at Phytozome, the plant genomics portal of the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the most up-to-date genomic data include a genome arranged on chromosomes and high-quality gene models with alternative splice forms supported by an abundance of whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) data. We present here the past, present, and future of Chlamydomonas genomics. Specifically, we detail progress on genome assembly and gene model refinement, discuss resources for gene annotations, functional predictions, and locus ID mapping between versions and, importantly, outline a standardized framework for naming genes.
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Plant Cell Rep
September 2025
College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fu'zhou, 350002, People's Republic of China.
GA participates in FR light-induced internode elongation of cucumber by regulating the expression of genes/proteins related to aquaporins, expansins, cell wall biosynthesis, hormone metabolism, and signal transduction. This study investigated the effects of the interaction between far-red (FR) light and gibberellin (GA) on the internode elongation of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. 'Zhongnong No.
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September 2025
Human Phenome Institute, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Fudan University, 825 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Accurate variant calling is essential for next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based diagnosis of rare diseases, yet most benchmarking studies have focused on standard cell lines or trio-based samples, with limited relevance to sporadic cases. Here, we systematically compared the performance of DeepVariant and GATK HaplotypeCaller in two Chinese cohorts of patients with sporadic epilepsy (EP) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). DeepVariant exhibited higher precision and sensitivity in detecting single nucleotide variants (SNVs), while GATK showed a distinct advantage in identifying rare variants, which are often key to understanding the genetic basis of rare diseases.
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September 2025
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michael Smith Laboratories, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are vital pollinators in fruit-producing agroecosystems like highbush blueberry (HBB) and cranberry (CRA). However, their health is threatened by multiple interacting stressors, including pesticides, pathogens, and nutritional changes. We tested the hypothesis that distinct agricultural ecosystems-with different combinations of agrochemical exposure, pathogen loads, and floral resources-elicit ecosystem-specific, tissue-level molecular responses in honey bees.
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September 2025
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Objective: Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies and genome-wide association study (GWAS) suggests the involvement of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and striatum dysfunction in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa (AN). However, identifying the causal role of circuit-specific genes in the development of the AN-like phenotype remains challenging and requires the combination of novel molecular tools and preclinical models.
Methods: We used the activity-based anorexia (ABA) rat model in combination with a novel viral-based translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP) technique to identify transcriptional differences within a specific neural pathway that we have previously demonstrated to mediate pathological weight loss in ABA rats (i.
J Cell Mol Med
September 2025
Centre for Global Health Research, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, India.
Antibiotic resistance is the never-ending war among medical researchers and microbial life forms. The extensive evolving potential of the microorganisms, in combination with improper usage, storage and disposal of the marketed antibiotics generated from natural or artificial sources, always calls for the need for novel antimicrobial agents with different modes of action. In this project, azo-oxime complexes of iron and manganese (seven in total) have been applied to wild multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacterial strains (isolated from sewage water of hospital).
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