Host-malaria parasite interactions and impacts on mutual evolution

X Su, C Zhang, DA Joy - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is the most deadly parasitic disease, affecting hundreds of millions of people
worldwide. Malaria parasites have been associated with their hosts for millions of years …

Population genomic and evolutionary modelling analyses reveal a single major QTL for ivermectin drug resistance in the pathogenic nematode, Haemonchus …

SR Doyle, CJR Illingworth, R Laing, DJ Bartley… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Infections with helminths cause an enormous disease burden in billions of
animals and plants worldwide. Large scale use of anthelmintics has driven the evolution of …

Bulk segregant linkage mapping for rodent and human malaria parasites

X Li, S Kumar, KV Brenneman, TJC Anderson - Parasitology International, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2005 Richard Carter's group surprised the malaria genetics community with an
elegant approach to rapidly mapping the genetic basis of phenotypic traits in rodent malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Forward genetic analysis of monensin and diclazuril resistance in Eimeria tenella

H Zhang, L Zhang, G Ren, H Si, X Song, X Liu… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Worldwide distributed coccidiosis is caused by infection of both Eimeria species and
Cystoisospora in the host intestine and causes huge economic losses to the livestock …

Genetic mapping of fitness determinants across the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum life cycle

X Li, S Kumar, M McDew-White, M Haile… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Determining the genetic basis of fitness is central to understanding evolution and
transmission of microbial pathogens. In human malaria parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) …

A Malaria Parasite Cross Reveals Genetic Determinants of Plasmodium falciparum Growth in Different Culture Media

S Kumar, X Li, M McDew-White, A Reyes… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
What genes determine in vitro growth and nutrient utilization in asexual blood-stage malaria
parasites? Competition experiments between NF54, clone 3D7, a lab-adapted African …

The power and promise of genetic mapping from Plasmodium falciparum crosses utilizing human liver-chimeric mice

KA Button-Simons, S Kumar, N Carmago… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic crosses are most powerful for linkage analysis when progeny numbers are high,
parental alleles segregate evenly and numbers of inbred progeny are minimized. We …

Optimizing bulk segregant analysis of drug resistance using Plasmodium falciparum genetic crosses conducted in humanized mice

KV Brenneman, X Li, S Kumar, E Delgado… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Classical malaria parasite genetic crosses involve isolation, genotyping, and phenotyping of
progeny parasites, which is time consuming and laborious. We tested a rapid alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis of the response to ivermectin treatment by a Swedish field population of Haemonchus contortus

P Baltrušis, SR Doyle, P Halvarsson… - International Journal for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Haemonchus contortus is a pathogenic gastrointestinal nematode of small ruminants and, in
part due to its capacity to develop resistance to drugs, contributes to significant losses in the …

Genetic mapping of determinants in drug resistance, virulence, disease susceptibility, and interaction of host-rodent malaria parasites

X Su, J Wu, F Xu, S Pattaradilokrat - Parasitology international, 2022 - Elsevier
Genetic mapping has been widely employed to search for genes linked to phenotypes/traits
of interest. Because of the ease of maintaining rodent malaria parasites in laboratory mice …