Illumina TruSeq Synthetic Long-Reads Empower De Novo Assembly and Resolve Complex, Highly-Repetitive Transposable Elements

RC McCoy, RW Taylor, TA Blauwkamp, JL Kelley… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genomic analysis,
including the de novo assembly of whole genomes. Nevertheless, assembly of complex …

Blobology: exploring raw genome data for contaminants, symbionts and parasites using taxon-annotated GC-coverage plots

S Kumar, M Jones, G Koutsovoulos, M Clarke… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Generating the raw data for a de novo genome assembly project for a target eukaryotic
species is relatively easy. This democratization of access to large-scale data has allowed …

Palaeosymbiosis Revealed by Genomic Fossils of Wolbachia in a Strongyloidean Nematode

G Koutsovoulos, B Makepeace, VN Tanya… - PLoS genetics, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are common endosymbionts of terrestrial arthropods, and are also found in
nematodes: the animal-parasitic filaria, and the plant-parasite Radopholus similis. Lateral …

Establishing evidenced-based best practice for the de novo assembly and evaluation of transcriptomes from non-model organisms

MD MacManes - BioRxiv, 2015 - biorxiv.org
Characterizing transcriptomes in both model and non-model organisms has resulted in a
massive increase in our understanding of biological phenomena. This boon, largely made …

Single Cell Genomics of Uncultured, Health-Associated Tannerella BU063 (Oral Taxon 286) and Comparison to the Closely Related Pathogen Tannerella forsythia

CJ Beall, AG Campbell, DM Dayeh, AL Griffen… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The uncultivated bacterium Tannerella BU063 (oral taxon 286) is the closest relative to the
periodontal pathogen Tannerella forsythia, but is not disease-associated itself. Using a …

Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis

BM Jones, WT Wcislo… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomes provide excellent foundational resources for mechanistic and evolutionary
analyses of complex traits. We present a developmental transcriptome for the facultatively …

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BM Jones, WT Wcislo, GE Robinson - 2013 - lab.igb.illinois.edu
Transcriptomes provide excellent foundational resources for mechanistic and evolutionary
analyses of complex traits. We present a developmental transcriptome for the facultatively …