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    • A consensus linkage map for molecular markers and Quantitative Trait Loci associated with economically important traits in melon (Cucumis melo L.) 

      Diaz, Aurora; Fergany, Mohamed; Formisano, Gelsomina; Ziarsolo, Peio; Blanca, José; Fei, Zhanjun; Staub, Jack E.; Zalapa, Juan E.; Cuevas, Hugo E.; Dace, Gayle; Oliver, Marc; Boissot, Nathalie; Dogimont, Catherine; Pitrat, Michel; Hofstede, René; van Koert, Paul; Harel-Beja, Rotem; Tzuri, Galil; Portnoy, Vitaly; Cohen, Shahar; Schaffer, Arthur; Katzir, Nurit; Xu, Yong; Zhang, Haiying; Fukino, Nobuko; Matsumoto, Satoru; Garcia-Mas, Jordi; Monforte, Antonio J. (BMC Plant Biology, 2011-07-28) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: A number of molecular marker linkage maps have been developed for melon (Cucumis melo L.) over the last two decades. However, these maps were constructed using different marker sets, thus, ...

    • A set of EST-SNPs for map saturation and cultivar identification in melon 

      Deleu, Wim; Esteras, Cristina; Roig, Cristina; González-To, Mireia; Fernández-Silva, Iria; Gonzalez-Ibeas, Daniel; Blanca, José; Aranda, Miguel A; Arús, Pere; Nuez, Fernando; MONFORTE, Antonio José; Picó, Maria Belén; Garcia-Mas, Jordi (BMC Plant Biology, 2009-07-15) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: There are few genomic tools available in melon (Cucumis melo L.), a member of the Cucurbitaceae, despite its importance as a crop. Among these tools, genetic maps have been constructed ...

    • Almond population genomics and non-additive GWAS reveal new insights into almond dissemination history and candidate genes for nut traits and blooming time 

      Pérez de los Cobos, Felipe; Coindre, Eva; Dlalah, Naïma; Quilot-Turion, Bénédicte; Batlle, Ignasi; Arús, Pere; Eduardo, Iban; Duval, Henri (Horticulture Research, 2023-09-25) Fructicultura; Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Domestication drastically changed crop genomes, fixing alleles of interest and creating different genetic populations. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are a powerful tool to detect these alleles ...

    • An association analysis between a polymorphism in the SEC24A gene and lipid traits recorded in Duroc pigs 

      Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Quintanilla, Raquel; Luigi-Sierra, María Gracia; Amills, Marcel (Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2021-10-05) Genètica i Millora Animal
      By regulating the expression of low-density lipoprotein receptors (LDLR), the SEC24A protein modulates the clearance of plasma cholesterol in mice. The whole-genome sequencing of five Duroc boars that ...

    • An oligo-based microarray offers novel transcriptomic approaches for the analysis of pathogen resistance and fruit quality traits in melon (Cucumis melo L.) 

      Mascarell-Creus, Albert; Cañizares, Joaquin; Vilarrasa-Blasi, Josep; Mora-García, Santiago; Blanca, José; Gonzalez-Ibeas, Daniel; Saladié, Montserrat; Roig, Cristina; Deleu, Wim; Picó-Silvent, Belén; López-Bigas, Nuria; Aranda, Miguel A; Garcia-Mas, Jordi; Nuez, Fernando; Puigdomènech, Pere; Caño-Delgado, Ana I (BMC Genomics, 2009-10-12) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: Melon (Cucumis melo) is a horticultural specie of significant nutritional value, which belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance is second only to the Solanaceae. Its ...

    • Analysis of expressed sequence tags generated from full-length enriched cDNA libraries of melon 

      Clepet, Christian; Joobeur, Tarek; Zheng, Yi; Jublot, Delphine; Huang, Mingyun; Truniger, Veronica; Boualem, Adnane; Hernandez-Gonzalez, Maria Elena; Dolcet-Sanjuan, Ramon; Portnoy, Vitaly; Mascarell-Creus, Albert; Caño-Delgado, Ana I.; Katzir, Nurit; Bendahmane, Abdelhafid; Giovannoni, James J.; Aranda, Miguel A.; Garcia-Mas, Jordi; Fei, Zhangjun (BMC Genomics, 2011-05-20) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: Melon (Cucumis melo), an economically important vegetable crop, belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family which includes several other important crops such as watermelon, cucumber, and pumpkin. ...

    • Analysis of porcine MUC4 gene as a candidate gene for prolificacy QTL on SSC13 in an Iberian × Meishan F2 population 

      Balcells, Ingrid; Castelló, Anna; Mercadé, Anna; Noguera, José Luis; Fernández-Rodríguez, Amanda; Sànchez, Armand; Tomàs, Anna (BMC Genetics, 2011-10-31) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background: Reproductive traits, such as prolificacy, are of great interest to the pig industry. Better understanding of their genetic architecture should help to increase the efficiency of pig ...

    • Analysis of the melon (Cucumis melo) small RNAome by high-throughput pyrosequencing 

      Gonzalez-Ibeas, Daniel; Blanca, José; Donaire, Livia; Saladié, Montserrat; Mascarell-Creus, Albert; Cano-Delgado, Ana; Garcia-Mas, Jordi; Llave, Cesar; Aranda, Miguel A. (BMC Genomics, 2011-08-03) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a commercially important fruit crop that is cultivated worldwide. The melon research community has recently benefited from the determination of a complete draft ...

    • Annotated 18S and 28S rDNA reference sequences of taxa in the planktonic diatom family Chaetocerotaceae 

      Gaonkar, Chetan C.; Piredda, Roberta; Minucci, Carmen; Mann, David G.; Montresor, Marina; Sarno, Diana; Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F. (PLOS ONE, 2018-12-26) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      The species-rich diatom family Chaetocerotaceae is common in the coastal marine phytoplankton worldwide where it is responsible for a substantial part of the primary production. Despite its relevance ...

    • Comparative analysis of rosaceous genomes and the reconstruction of a putative ancestral genome for the family 

      Illa, Eudald; Sargent, Daniel J.; Lopez Girona, Elena; Bushakra, Jill; Cestaro, Alessandro; Crowhurst, Ross; Pindo, Massimo; Cabrera, Antonio; van der Knaap, Esther; Iezzoni, Amy; Gardiner, Susan; Velasco, Riccardo; Arús, Pere; Chagné, David; Troggio, Michela (BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2011-01-12) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: Comparative genome mapping studies in Rosaceae have been conducted until now by aligning genetic maps within the same genus, or closely related genera and using a limited number of common ...

    • Competing risk analyses of longevity in Duroc sows with a special emphasis on leg conformation 

      Fernández de Sevilla, X.; Fàbrega-Romans, Emma; Tibau , Joan; Casellas, Joaquim (Animal, 2009-01-01) Benestar Animal; Genètica i Millora Animal
      A competing risk approach was used to evaluate the influence of several factors on culling risk for 587 Duroc sows. Three different analyses were performed according to whether sow failure was due to ...

    • Construction of an almond linkage map in an Australian population Nonpareil × Lauranne 

      Tavassolian, Iraj; Rabiei, Gholmereza; Gregory, Davina; Mnejja, Mourad; Wirthensohn, Michelle G; Hunt, Peter W; Gibson, John P; Ford, Christopher M; Sedgley, Margaret; Wu, Shu-Biao (BMC Genomics, 2010-10-09) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: Despite a high genetic similarity to peach, almonds (Prunus dulcis) have a fleshless fruit and edible kernel, produced as a crop for human consumption. While the release of peach genome ...

    • Copy number variation in the porcine genome inferred from a 60 k SNP BeadChip 

      Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Castelló, Anna; Pena, Romi; Alves, Estefania; Mercadé, Anna; Souza, Carla A; Fernández, Ana I; Perez-Enciso, Miguel; Folch, Josep M (BMC Genomics, 2010-10-22) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background: Recent studies in pigs have detected copy number variants (CNVs) using the Comparative Genomic Hybridization technique in arrays designed to cover specific porcine chromosomes. The goal of ...

    • Determination of the melon chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences reveals that the largest reported mitochondrial genome in plants contains a significant amount of DNA having a nuclear origin 

      Rodríguez-Moreno, Luis; González, Víctor M.; Benjak, Andrej; Martí, M. Carmen; Puigdomènech, Pere; Aranda, Miguel A.; Garcia-Mas, Jordi (BMC Genomics, 2011-08-20) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: The melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance among vegetable crops is second only to Solanaceae. The melon has a small genome size (454 Mb), which makes it ...

    • Development and Evaluation of a 9K SNP Array for Peach by Internationally Coordinated SNP Detection and Validation in Breeding Germplasm 

      Verde, Ignazio; Bassil, Nahla; Scalabrin, Simone; Gilmore, Barbara; Lawley, Cynthia T.; Gasic, Ksenija; Micheletti, Diego; Rosyara, Umesh R.; Cattonaro, Federica; Vendramin, Elisa; Main, Dorrie; Aramini, Valeria; Blas, Andrea L.; Mockler, Todd C.; Bryant, Douglas W.; Wilhelm, Larry; Troggio, Michela; Sosinski, Bryon; Aranzana, Maria Jose; Arús, Pere; Iezzoni, Amy; Morgante, Michele; Peace, Cameron (PLoS ONE, 2012-04-20) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Although a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers covering the entire genome are needed to enable molecular breeding efforts such as genome wide association studies, fine mapping, ...

    • Direct and reverse pollen-mediated gene flow between GM rice and red rice weed 

      Serrat, X.; Esteban, R.; Peñas, G.; Català, M.M.; Mele, E.; Messeguer, J. (AoB PLANTS, 2013-11-07) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles; Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Potential risks of genetically modified (GM) crops must be identified before their commercialization, as happens with all new technologies. One of the major concerns is the proper risk assessment of ...

    • Efect of feed restriction on the environmental variability of birth weight in divergently selected lines of mice 

      Formoso‑Raferty, Nora; Cervantes, Isabel; Sánchez, Juan Pablo; Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo; Bodin, Loys (Genetics Selection Evolution, 2019-06-13) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Selection of mice for decreased environmental variability of birth weight has achieved higher survivability and larger litter size as a correlated response to canalized selection, which suggests higher ...

    • Expression-based GWAS identifies variants, gene interactions and key regulators affecting intramuscular fatty acid content and composition in porcine meat 

      Puig-Oliveras, Anna; Revilla, Manuel; Castelló, Anna; Fernández, Ana I.; Folch, Josep M.; Ballester, Maria (Scientific Reports, 2016-08-18) Genètica i Millora Animal
      The aim of this work is to better understand the genetic mechanisms determining two complex traits affecting porcine meat quality: intramuscular fat (IMF) content and its fatty acid (FA) composition. ...

    • Functional and association studies on the pig HMGCR gene, a cholesterol-synthesis limiting enzyme 

      Cánovas, A.; Quintanilla, Raquel; Gallardo, D.; Díaz, Isabel; Noguera, José Luis; Ramírez, O.; Pena, Romi (Animal, 2009-10-23) Genètica i Millora Animal; Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
      The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGCR) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. We have studied the role of the HMGCR gene in pig lipid metabolism by means of ...

    • Gene and QTL detection in a three-way barley cross under selection by a mixed model with kinship information using SNPs 

      Malosetti, Marcos; van Eeuwijk, Fred A.; Boer, Martin P.; Casas, Ana M.; Elía, Mónica; Moralejo, Marian; Bhat, Prasanna R.; Ramsay, Luke; Molina-Cano, José-Luis (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2011-03-04) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles
      Quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection is commonly performed by analysis of designed segregating populations derived from two inbred parental lines, where absence of selection, mutation and genetic ...