Background: Gossypium thurberi is a wild diploid species that has been used to improve cultivated allotetraploid cotton. G. thurberi belongs to D genome, which is an important wild bio-source for the cotton breeding and genetic research. To a certain degree, chloroplast DNA sequence information are a versatile tool for species identification and phylogenetic implications in plants. Different ch...

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem with enormous public health and economic impact. This study was carried out to get an overview of acquired antimicrobial resistance gene sequences in the genomes of Escherichia coli isolated from different food sources and the environment in Nigeria. Methods: To determine the acquired antimicrobial-resistant genes prevalence, genome asse...

Now, it is clear that protein is just one of the most functional products produced by the eukaryotic genome. Indeed, a major part of the human genome is transcribed to non-coding sequences than to the coding sequence of the protein. In this study, we selected three long non-coding RNAs namely AK082072, AK043754 and AK082467 which show brain expression and local region conservation among vertebr...

it is now universally accepted that dna is the main target for damages caused by physical and chemical genotoxicants. although there are different methods to measure directly the induced dna damages but due to fast repair processes in cellular environment, most of the damages would be repaired even before sampling, therefore processed dna damages, i.e. damages left unrepaired after acting repai...

myocardial infarction (mi) and its major determinant, coronary artery disease (cad), are complex diseases arising from the interaction between several genetic and environmental factors. until recently, the genetic basis of these diseases was poorly understood. genome-wide genetic association studies have afforded a comprehensive insight into the association between genetic variants and diseases...

the archaeological evidence suggests that iran has been one of the first origins of sheep domestication in the world. this study aims to investigate the genetic diversity of indigenous iranian sheep breeds using mitochondrial dna (mtdna) and to explore the evolutionary history of sheep domestication in iran. single nucleotide polymorphism (snp) markers in the control region of mtdna were used t...

the objective of the present study was to scan the whole genome in sheep for identifying the loci associated with wool diameter. blood samples were collected from 94 animals, consisting 47 samples per each lori-bakhtiary and zel breeds. genotyping of samples were performed using ovine 50k snp chip arrays. quality control filters were applied for the initial genotyping data and 48,056 snps belon...