The clove (Syzygium aromaticum) genome provides insights into the eugenol biosynthesis pathway by Sonia Ouadi, Nicolas Sierro, Simon Goepfert, Lucien Bovet, Gaetan Glauser, Armelle Vallat, Manuel C. Peitsch, Felix Kessler, Nikolai V. Ivanov

“…Here, we present a 370-Mb high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly for clove. Comparative genomic analysis between S. aromaticum and Eucalyptus grandis—both species of the Myrtaceae family—reveals good genome structure conservation and intrachromosomal rearrangements on seven of the eleven chromosomes. …”
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Development of a set of monosomic alien addition lines from Gossypium raimondii in Gossypium hirsutum toward breeding applications in cotton by Zhenzhen Xu, Xiaoxi Lu, Wenjie Ding, Wei Ji, Wuzhimu Ali, Heyang Wang, Shan Meng, Qi Guo, Peng Xu, Xianglong Chen, Liang Zhao, Huan Yu, Xinlian Shen

“…Analysis of its mitotic metaphase plates revealed the presence of 78 chromosomes, with each of the six chromosome-specific fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes (3D5, 5D5, 6D5, 7D5, 9D5, and 10D5) of G. raimondii exhibiting bright and distinct signals on its respective pair of chromosomes. …”
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Embryo Mosaicism Rate in National Referral Hospital of Indonesia Detected Using Next-Generation Sequencing: A Retrospective Study by Achmad Kemal Harzif, Muhammad Ikhsan, Pritta Ameilia Iffanolida, Kresna Mutia, Budi Wiweko, R Muharam, Kanadi Sumapraja, Gita Pratama, Mila Maidarti, Vita Silvana, Amalia Shadrina, Irene Sinta Febriana, Nafi'atul Ummah, Aisyah Retno Puspawardani, Andon Hestiantoro

“…Notably, low-level mosaicism predominated in chromosome 9 (n=10,5.1%), whereas abnormality prevalence was highest in chromosome 21 (n=20, 10.2%). …”
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Identification of positive selection signatures associated with milk and composition traits in Murciano-Granadina and Barki by Hossein Mohammadi, amir hossien khaltabadi farahani, Mohammad Hossein Moradi

“…GeneCards (http://www.genecards.org) and UniProtKB (http://www.uniprot.org) databases were also used to interpret the function of the obtained genes.Results and Discussion Using FST approach, we identified seven genomic regions on chromosomes 4, 6, 14, 15 (two regions per chromosome), 17, and 23 chromosomes. …”
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Characterization of an IncR Plasmid with Two Copies of ISCR-Linked qnrB6 from ST968 Klebsiella pneumoniae by Changrui Qian, Xinyi Zhu, Junwan Lu, Kai Shen, Qianqian Chen, Wangxiao Zhou, Hongmao Liu, Wei Lu, Danying Zhou, Zhewei Sun, Xi Lin, Kewei Li, Qiyu Bao, Teng Xu, Shunfei Lu

“…The IncR backbone sequence of P. mirabilis AOUC-001 chromosome shows the highest identity with that of pR50-74. …”
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Genome-wide association study reveals major loci for resistance to septoria tritici blotch in a Tunisian durum wheat collection. by Maroua Ouaja, Bikash Ghimire, Bochra Amina Bahri, Medini Maher, Sahbi Ferjaoui, Sripada Udupa, Sonia Hamza

“…A major QTL was identified on each of chromosomes 1B, 4B, 5A, and 7B, respectively. The QTL on 7B chromosome colocalized with Stb8 identified in bread wheat. …”
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Phenotypic and Cytogenetic Characterization of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in De Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes by A. J. I. S. Rathnayake, H. W. W. Goonasekera, V. H. W. Dissanayake

“…No significant growth differences were observed between control MSCs and MDS-MSCs of all subtypes (p>0.05). 31% of MDS-MSCs had chromosomal aberrations (der(3),del(6q),del(7p), loss of chromosomes) whose BM karyotypes were normal. …”
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Diagnostic Overlap between Fanconi Anemia and the Cohesinopathies: Roberts Syndrome and Warsaw Breakage Syndrome by Petra van der Lelij, Anneke B. Oostra, Martin A. Rooimans, Hans Joenje, Johan P. de Winter

“…This complication may be avoided by scoring metaphase chromosomes—in addition to chromosomal breakage—for spontaneously occurring premature centromere division, which is characteristic for RBS and WABS, but not for FA.…”
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Identification of the CaCRT gene family and function of CaCRT1 under low-temperature stress in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) by Yanzhuang Wang, Ping Yang, Jian Li, Juan Li, Keyan Zhu, Minkun Pei, Jie Li, Hongbin Du

“…The genes were found to be located on different chromosomes, and phylogenetic tree and collinearity analyses were performed. …”
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Uncovering the genetic basis of milk production traits in Mexican Holstein cattle based on individual markers and genomic windows. by José G Cortes-Hernández, Adriana García-Ruiz, Francisco Peñagaricano, Hugo H Montaldo, Felipe J Ruiz-López

“…A total of 162 markers were significantly associated (p<0.01) with the phenotypic traits evaluated, and the SNP markers were distributed across chromosomes 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 29. …”
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The unconventional Xer recombination machinery of Streptococci/Lactococci. by Pascal Le Bourgeois, Marie Bugarel, Nathalie Campo, Marie-Line Daveran-Mingot, Jessica Labonté, Daniel Lanfranchi, Thomas Lautier, Carine Pagès, Paul Ritzenthaler

“…Homologous recombination between circular sister chromosomes during DNA replication in bacteria can generate chromosome dimers that must be resolved into monomers prior to cell division. …”
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Higher Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Patients with Well-Controlled HIV Infection: Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome by Bradley T. Williamson, Heather A. Leitch

“…All had deletions involving chromosomes 5 and 7. MDS treatment of 2 was not reported and one received palliation; all died of AML. …”
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Short Telomere Length in Plasma of Sudanese Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Chronic Liver Diseases by Fayza A. Rahamtalla, Iman M. Shammat, Salma B. M. Mudawi, Maram Abbas, Mohammed A. H. Kheir Elsid, Mohammed S. M. Abdalla

“… Background: Telomeres, a protective sequence of DNA at the end of chromosomes, are essential for the maintenance of chromosomal integrity and stability. …”
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The study of the regulatory region of the Drosophila melanogaster Notch gene by new methods of directed genome editing by O. V. Andreyenkov, E. I. Volkova, N. G. Andreyenkova, S. A. Demakov

“…The regulatory zone of the Notch gene is in the region of open chromatin state that corresponds to the 3C6/3C7 interband on the cytological map of polytene chromosomes of D. melanogaster salivary glands. The development of new methods for directed genome editing made it possible to create a system for introducing directed changes into the regulatory zone of the gene. …”
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Mapping of Novel QTL Regulating Grain Shattering Using Doubled Haploid Population in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Gyu-Ho Lee, In-Kyu Kang, Kyung-Min Kim

“…Two regions of the QTLs related to BTS on chromosome 1 and chromosome 6 were detected. Several important genes are distributed in 1 Mbp region of the QTL on chromosome 6 and they are related to the formation of abscission layer. …”
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Optimizing Ontology Alignment through Linkage Learning on Entity Correspondences by Xingsi Xue, Chaofan Yang, Chao Jiang, Pei-Wei Tsai, Guojun Mao, Hai Zhu

“…Compact encoding mechanism does not need to store and maintain the whole population in the memory during the evolving process, and the utilization of linkage learning protects the chromosome’s building blocks, which is able to reduce the algorithm’s running time and ensure the alignment’s quality. …”
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Biphasic Chromatin Structure and FISH Signals Reflect Intranuclear Order by Jyoti P. Chaudhuri, Eva Kasprzycki, Mathew Battaglia, John R. McGill, Anton Brøgger, Joachim-U. Walther, Albrecht Reith

“…The biphasic chromatin structure with equitable distribution of the homologous FISH signals may correspond to the two sets of chromosomes, supporting observations on ploidywise intranuclear order. …”
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Characterization of Chromatin Structure-associated Histone Modifications in Breast Cancer Cells by Chang Pyo Hong, Moon Kyung Choe, Tae-Young Roh

“…To understand the relationship between histone modifications and regulatory elements in breast cancer cells, we compared our chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-Seq) histone modification patterns for histone H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K9/16ac, and H3K27me3 in MCF-7 cells with publicly available formaldehyde-assisted isolation of regulatory elements (FAIRE)-chip signals in human chromosomes 8, 11, and 12, identified by a method called FAIRE. …”
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Identification and Expression Profiling of the BTB Domain-Containing Protein Gene Family in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori by Daojun Cheng, Wenliang Qian, Meng Meng, Yonghu Wang, Jian Peng, Qingyou Xia

“…Silkworm BTB protein genes were classified into nine subfamilies according to their domain architecture, and most of them could be mapped on the different chromosomes. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that silkworm BTB protein genes may have undergone a duplication event in three subfamilies: BTB-BACK-Kelch, BTB-BACK-PHR, and BTB-FLYWCH. …”
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Unusual Presentation with Orbital Mass in a Child with Precursor B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Lalita Sathitsamitphong, Rungrote Natesirinilkul, Worawut Choeyprasert, Pimlak Charoenkwan

“…The cytogenetic study showed 46,XX chromosomes. After 4 weeks of induction chemotherapy for very high-risk ALL, although the bone marrow was in remission, the proptosis was partially resolved. …”
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