Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens related to Fungi. These organisms have a
unique invasion organelle, the polar tube, which upon appropriate environmental …

Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Oleaginous microalgae are promising feedstock for biofuels, yet the genetic diversity, origin
and evolution of oleaginous traits remain largely unknown. Here we present a detailed …

Significant progress has been achieved in silkworm (Bombyx mori) research since the last
review on this insect was published in this journal in 2005. In this article, we review the new …

Microsporidia are eukaryotic parasites of many animals that appear to have adapted to an
obligate intracellular lifestyle by modifying the morphology and content of their cells. Living …

Microsporidia represent an evolutionary outlier in the tree of life and occupy the extreme
edge of the eukaryotic domain with some of their biological features. Many of these …

We present a novel method to measure the local GC-content bias in genomes and a survey
of published fungal species. The method, enacted as “OcculterCut”(https://sourceforge …

VennPainter is a program for depicting unique and shared sets of genes lists and generating
Venn diagrams, by using the Qt C++ framework. The software produces Classic Venn …

Pathogens use a variety of secreted and surface proteins to interact with and manipulate
their hosts, but a systematic approach for identifying such proteins has been lacking. To …

Microsporidia have attracted much attention because they infect a variety of species ranging
from protists to mammals, including immunocompromised patients with AIDS or cancer …