CRISPR/Cas9: A new tool for the study and control of helminth parasites

X Du, DP McManus, JD French, MK Jones, H You - BioEssays, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent reports of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in parasitic helminths open up new
avenues for research on these dangerous pathogens. However, the complex morphology …

Transgenesis in parasitic helminths: a brief history and prospects for the future

MJ Quinzo, MJ Perteguer, PJ Brindley, A Loukas… - Parasites & vectors, 2022 - Springer
Helminth infections impact the health of hundreds of millions of persons globally and also
cause important economic losses in livestock farming. Methodological limitations as well as …

Conservation and diversification of small RNA pathways within flatworms

S Fontenla, G Rinaldi, P Smircich, JF Tort - BMC evolutionary biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Small non-coding RNAs, including miRNAs, and gene silencing
mediated by RNA interference have been described in free-living and parasitic lineages of …

Lost and found: Piwi and Argonaute pathways in flatworms

S Fontenla, G Rinaldi, JF Tort - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Platyhelminthes comprise one of the major phyla of invertebrate animals, inhabiting a wide
range of ecosystems, and one of the most successful in adapting to parasitic life. Small non …

Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of Clonorchis sinensis infection

GN Chelomina - Molecular Medical Microbiology, 2024 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews our current knowledge about genomics and transcriptomics of the
Chinese liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis, a causative agent of severe hepatobiliary diseases …

The Catenulida flatworm can express genes from its microbiome or from the DNA it ingests

MT Rosa, ELS Loreto - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Stenostomum are tiny planarians of the phylum Platyhelminthes that reproduce asexually.
We transfected these worms using plasmids containing a gfp reporter gene. Here we show …

Transient Transduction of the Strobilated Forms of Echinococcus granulosus

MA Mohammadi, A Afgar, A Faridi, SM Mousavi… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2022 - jove.com
Cystic echinococcosis or hydatid disease is one of the most important zoonotic parasitic
diseases caused by Echinococcus granulosus, a small tapeworm harbored in the intestine …

Genomics and transcriptomics of the Chinese liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis (Opisthorchiidae, Trematoda)

GN Chelomina - Molecular Biology, 2017 - Springer
The review summarizes the results of first genomic and transcriptomic investigations of the
liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis (Opisthorchiidae, Trematoda). The studies mark the dawn of …

Геномика и транскриптомика китайской печеночной двуустки, Clonorchis sinensis (Opisthorchiidae, Trematoda)

ГН Челомина - Молекулярная биология, 2017 - elibrary.ru
В настоящей работе обобщены результаты первых геномных и транскриптомных
исследований китайской двуустки (плоского червя-трематоды семейства описторхиид …