Population genomic footprints of environmental pollution pressure in natural populations of the Mediterranean mussel.

Bivalve molluscs of the genus Mytilus are considered a model organism in ecotoxicology and are known to be well adapted to marine ecosystems affected by multiple anthropogenic factors, including pollution. In order to assess whether pollution interferes with the reproductive success of Mytilus and affects the diversity within and between populations, we sequenced the transcriptomes of 72 individuals from 9 populations of Mytilus galloprovincialis collected along a ca. 130-km north-south transect on the Western coast of the Iberian Peninsula.

Draft genome sequence of LMTR 21 isolated from Lima bean () in Peru.

is a prevalent species in root nodules of the Lima bean () in Peru. LMTR 21 is the type strain of the species and was isolated from a root nodule collected in an agricultural field in the Peruvian central coast. Its 8.

Genome sequence of sp. LMTR 3, a diazotrophic symbiont of Lima bean ().

sp. LMTR 3 is a representative strain of one of the geno(species) of diazotrophic symbionts associated with Lima bean () in Peru. Its 7.

GANNPhos: a new phosphorylation site predictor based on a genetic algorithm integrated neural network.

With the advance of modern molecular biology it has become increasingly clear that few cellular processes are unaffected by protein phosphorylation. Therefore, computational identification of phosphorylation sites is very helpful to accelerate the functional understanding of huge available protein sequences obtained from genomic and proteomic studies. Using a genetic algorithm integrated neural network (GANN), a new bioinformatics method named GANNPhos has been developed to predict phosphorylation sites in proteins.