The Genome of the Great Gerbil Reveals Species-Specific Duplication of an MHCII Gene

P Nilsson, MH Solbakken, BV Schmid… - Genome Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a social rodent living in permanent, complex
burrow systems distributed throughout Central Asia, where it serves as the main host of …

The genome of the plague-resistant great gerbil reveals species-specific duplication of an MHCII gene

P Nilsson, MH Solbakken, BV Schmid, RJS Orr, R Lv… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Background: The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a social rodent living in
permanent, complex burrow systems distributed throughout Central Asia, where it serves as …

Mining the Leishmania genome for novel antigens and vaccine candidates

C Herrera‐Najera, R Piña‐Aguilar, F Xacur‐Garcia… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Leishmaniasis is a neglected disease with an estimated 12 million infected people. The
recent completion of the sequencing of the Leishmania major genome has opened …

Annotation of immune genes in the extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

E Peel, S Frankenberg, CJ Hogg, A Pask, K Belov - Immunogenetics, 2021 - Springer
Advances in genome sequencing technology have enabled genomes of extinct species to
be sequenced. However, given the fragmented nature of these genome assemblies, it is not …

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

EF Kirkness, BJ Haas, W Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
As an obligatory parasite of humans, the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) is an
important vector for human diseases, including epidemic typhus, relapsing fever, and trench …

[HTML][HTML] Chromosome-scale genome sequencing, assembly and annotation of six genomes from subfamily Leishmaniinae

H Almutairi, MD Urbaniak, MD Bates, N Jariyapan… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
We provide the raw and processed data produced during the genome sequencing of
isolates from six species of parasites from the sub-family Leishmaniinae: Leishmania …

Correction for Mesquita et al., Genome of Rhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

RD Mesquita - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of …, 2016 - hal.science
Rhodnius prolixus not only has served as a model organism for the study of insect
physiology, but also is a major vector of Chagas disease, an illness that affects …

[PDF][PDF] Long-Read Genome Sequencing Provides Molecular Insights into Scavenging and Societal Complexity in Spotted Hyena Crocuta crocuta

Y Shao, XB Wang, ML Zhang, Y Liu… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is a large and unique terrestrial carnivore. It is a
particularly fascinating species due to its distinct phenotypic traits, especially its complex …

[PDF][PDF] Using genomic information to understand Leishmania biology

JS de Toledo, EJR Vasconcelos, TR Ferreira… - Open Parasitol J, 2010 - academia.edu
The genomes of different species of Leishmania have been deciphered in recent years. We
learned that the genome content and organization of Leishmania major, Leishmania …

The Genome Sequence of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis: Functional Annotation and Extended Analysis of Gene Models

F Real, RO Vidal, MF Carazzolle, JMC Mondego… - DNA …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present the sequencing and annotation of the Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis
genome, an etiological agent of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Amazon region of …