Christine G Elsik
Affiliation: Texas A and M University
- Computational and transcriptional evidence for microRNAs in the honey bee genomeDaniel B Weaver
Bee Power, LP, Lynn Grove Road, 16481 CR 319, Navasota, TX 77868, USA
Genome Biol 8:R97. 2007..The recently sequenced honey bee genome provides an opportunity to detect novel miRNAs in both this species and others, and to begin to infer the roles of miRNAs in honey bee development...
- Creating a honey bee consensus gene setChristine G Elsik
Department of Animal Science, Texas A and M University, TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Genome Biol 8:R13. 2007..Second, we wished to provide a single official gene list that the research community could further utilize for consistent and comparable analyses and functional annotation...
- Community annotation: procedures, protocols, and supporting toolsChristine G Elsik
Department of Animal Science, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Genome Res 16:1329-33. 2006..We present annotation procedures, standard protocols, and tools used for sequence analysis, data submission, and data management. We also report lessons learned from this dispersed community annotation effort for a metazoan genome...
- Development and application of bovine and porcine oligonucleotide arrays with protein-based annotationJohn R Garbe
Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
J Biomed Biotechnol 2010:453638. 2010..The porcine array contains 19,980 probes targeting 15,204 genes, about 76% of the genes in the Ensembl annotation of the pig genome. An initial experiment using the bovine array demonstrates the specificity and sensitivity of the array...
- Bovine Genome Database: supporting community annotation and analysis of the Bos taurus genomeJustin T Reese
Department of Animal Science, Texas A and M University, College Station, 77843, USA
BMC Genomics 11:645. 2010..Here we present our approach, challenges and solutions facilitating a large distributed annotation project...
- Discovery of candidate genes and pathways in the endometrium regulating ovine blastocyst growth and conceptus elongationM Carey Satterfield
Department of Animal Science, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843 2471, USA
Physiol Genomics 39:85-99. 2009..This transcriptomic data provides novel insights into the biology of endometrial function and preimplantation blastocyst growth and development in sheep...
- Patterns of conservation and change in honey bee developmental genesPeter K Dearden
Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Biochemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
Genome Res 16:1376-84. 2006....
- Manual superscaffolding of honey bee (Apis mellifera) chromosomes 12-16: implications for the draft genome assembly version 4, gene annotation, and chromosome structureHugh M Robertson
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana 61801, USA
Insect Mol Biol 16:401-10. 2007..Nine duplicate gene models on chromosomes 15 and 16 were made redundant, while another 15 gene models were improved, most spectacularly the MAD (MAX dimerization protein) gene which extends across 11 scaffolds for at least 400 kb...
- The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneumStephen Richards
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Nature 452:949-55. 2008..Systemic RNA interference in T. castaneum functions differently from that in Caenorhabditis elegans, but nevertheless offers similar power for the elucidation of gene function and identification of targets for selective insect control...