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BMC Biology - the flagship biology journal of the BMC series - publishes research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest in any area of biology and biomedical sciences. BMC Biology (ISSN 1741-7007) is covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Biology 2009, 7 :5
The Zera peptide promotes the biogenesis of protein bodies in evolutionarily divergent eukaryotic cell types and by permitting large amounts of storage, these ER-derived organelles provide an efficient means of producing recombinant proteins.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :4
A novel transgenic lethality system in the male Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata results in all progeny dying during embryogenesis, ensuring 100% effective pest control without the need for irradiation.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :3
A new internet portal for microbial taxonomy allows unknown bacterial strains to be assigned to species via the automated comparison of multilocus sequence data available in a curated sequence database.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :2
The extracellular bacterial symbionts of stinkbugs have cospeciated with their hosts and experienced a drastic reduction in genome size that resembles the evolution of bacterial endosymbionts in other insect species that occur intracellularly.
BMC Biology 2009, 7 :1
Following amputation, transcription is initially similar in innervated and denervated axolotl limbs, but without nerves there is a lack of cell proliferation and protracted wound healing takes place instead of regeneration.
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Eukaryotic protein production in designed storage organelles Margarita Torrent, Blanca Llompart, Sabine Lasserre-Ramassamy, Immaculada Llop-Tous, Miriam Bastida, Pau Marzabal, Ann Westerholm-Pavinen, Markku Saloheimo, Peter B Heifetz, M Dolors Ludevid BMC Biology 2009, 7 :5 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Marc F Schetelig, Carlos Caceres, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Gerald Franz, Ernst A. Wimmer BMC Biology 2009, 7 :4 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Assigning strains to bacterial species via the internet Cynthia J Bishop, David M Aanensen, Gregory E Jordan, Mogens Kilian, William P Hanage, Brian G Spratt BMC Biology 2009, 7 :3 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Yoichi Kamagata, Takema Fukatsu BMC Biology 2009, 7 :2 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Microarray and cDNA sequence analysis of transcription during nerve-dependent limb regeneration James R Monaghan, Leonard G Epp, Srikrishna Putta, Robert B Page, John A Walker, Chris K Beachy, Wei Zhu, Gerald M Pao, Inder M Verma, Tony Hunter, Susan V Bryant, David M Gardiner, Tim T Harkins, S Randal Voss BMC Biology 2009, 7 :1 (13 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Divergence and diversification in North American Psoraleeae (Fabaceae) due to climate change Ashley N. Egan, Keith A. Crandall BMC Biology 2008, 6 :55 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees Thomas LP Couvreur, Lars W Chatrou, Marc SM Sosef, James E Richardson BMC Biology 2008, 6 :54 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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BMC Biology turns five Elizabeth C Moylan, Matt J Hodgkinson, Maria Kowalczuk, Scott C Edmunds, Penelope A Webb BMC Biology 2008, 6 :53 (16 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evolution of a polymodal sensory response network Jagan Srinivasan, Omer Durak, Paul W Sternberg BMC Biology 2008, 6 :52 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [Cited on BioMed Central ]
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An internal ribosome entry site element directs the synthesis of the 80 kDa isoforms of protein 4.1R Eva Lospitao, Carmen M P BMC Biology 2008, 6 :51 (4 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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