Legumes (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are unique among cultivated plants for their ability to
carry out endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobial bacteria, a process that takes place …

The BioMart Community Portal ( www.biomart.org ) is a community-driven effort to provide a
unified interface to biomedical databases that are distributed worldwide. The portal provides …

Maritime pine ( P inus pinaster A it.) is a widely distributed conifer species in S outhwestern
E urope and one of the most advanced models for conifer research. In the current work, …

Bioinformatic analysis of the intergenic regions of Staphylococcus aureus predicted multiple
regulatory regions. From this analysis, we characterized 11 novel noncoding RNAs (RsaA‐K…

Background Cavefish populations belonging to the Mexican tetra species Astyanax
mexicanus are outstanding models to study the tempo and mode of adaptation to a radical …

Background Whole-genome sequencing studies have recently shown that osteosarcomas (OSs)
display high rates of structural variation, ie they contain many somatic mutations and …

G-quadruplexes (G4) are non-canonical DNA structures found in the genome of most species
including human. Small molecules stabilizing these structures, called G4 ligands, have …

Astyanax mexicanus, a teleost species with surface dwelling (surface fish) and cave adapted
(cavefish) morphs, is an important model system in evolutionary developmental biology (…

Background In a context of climate change, phenotypic plasticity provides long-lived species,
such as trees, with the means to adapt to environmental variations occurring within a single …

Background The metagenomic analysis of gut microbiomes has emerged as a powerful
strategy for the identification of biomass-degrading enzymes, which will be no doubt useful for …