Genetic and functional diversification of chemosensory pathway receptors in mosquito-borne filarial nematodes

Homologs of Caenorhabditis elegans chemosensory genes have roles in behaviour and chemotaxis in the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita

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Inherent biomechanical traits enable infective filariae to disseminate through collecting lymphatic vessels

(2019) Witold W. Kilarski et al.   Nature Communications

A Critical Role for Thermosensation in Host Seeking by Skin-Penetrating Nematodes

(2018) Astra S. Bryant et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Predator-secreted sulfolipids induce defensive responses in C. elegans

(2018) Zheng Liu et al.   Nature Communications

An atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans chemoreceptor expression

(2018) Berta Vidal et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Discovery of genomic intervals that underlie nematode responses to benzimidazoles

(2018) Mostafa Zamanian et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Development of a toolkit for piggyBac-mediated integrative transfection of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi

(2018) Canhui Liu et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A natural variant and engineered mutation in a GPCR promote DEET resistance in C. elegans

(2018) Emily J. Dennis et al.   NATURE

Nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase controls behavior, neurodegeneration and lifespan by regulating neuronal autophagy

(2018) Kathrin Schmeisser et al.   PLoS Genetics

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

(2018) Spencer L James et al.   LANCET

Comparative genomics of the major parasitic worms

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A Trial of a Triple-Drug Treatment for Lymphatic Filariasis

(2018) Christopher L. King et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Terror in the dirt: Sensory determinants of host seeking in soil-transmitted mammalian-parasitic nematodes

(2018) Astra S. Bryant et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance

Venestatin, a Ca ++ -binding protein from the parasitic nematode Strongyloides venezuelensis , is involved in the larval migration process

(2017) Daigo Tsubokawa et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

WormBase ParaSite − a comprehensive resource for helminth genomics

(2017) Kevin L. Howe et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Nextflow enables reproducible computational workflows

(2017) Paolo Di Tommaso et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Targeted mutagenesis in a human-parasitic nematode

(2017) Spencer S. Gang et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Experience-dependent olfactory behaviors of the parasitic nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus

(2017) Felicitas Ruiz et al.   PLoS Pathogens

C. elegans avoids toxin-producing Streptomyces using a seven transmembrane domain chemosensory receptor

(2017) Alan Tran et al.   eLife

Contribution of the cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit, CNG-3, to olfactory plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2017) Damien M. O’Halloran et al.   Scientific Reports

Host seeking parasitic nematodes use specific odors to assess host resources

(2017) Tiffany Baiocchi et al.   Scientific Reports

Prospects and challenges of CRISPR/Cas genome editing for the study and control of neglected vector-borne nematode diseases

(2016) Mostafa Zamanian et al.   FEBS Journal

The Signaling Pathway ofCaenorhabditis elegansMediates Chemotaxis Response to the Attractant 2-Heptanone in a Trojan Horse-like Pathogenesis

(2016) Chunmei Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Mechanisms of host seeking by parasitic nematodes

(2016) Spencer S. Gang et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

TMC-1 Mediates Alkaline Sensation in C. elegans through Nociceptive Neurons

(2016) Xiang Wang et al.   NEURON

The cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit CNG-1 instructs behavioral outputs in Caenorhabditis elegans by coincidence detection of nutritional status and olfactory input

(2016) Chao He et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Nicotinamide is an endogenous agonist for a C. elegans TRPV OSM-9 and OCR-4 channel

(2016) Awani Upadhyay et al.   Nature Communications

ggtree: anrpackage for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data

(2016) Guangchuang Yu et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Effect of In Vitro Cultivation on the Transcriptome of Adult Brugia malayi

(2016) Cristina Ballesteros et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Regulatory changes in two chemoreceptor genes contribute to a Caenorhabditis elegans QTL for foraging behavior

(2016) Joshua S Greene et al.   eLife

The genome of Onchocerca volvulus, agent of river blindness

(2016) James A. Cotton et al.   Nature Microbiology

Comparative Metabolomic Profiling Reveals That Dysregulated Glycolysis Stemming from Lack of Salvage NAD+Biosynthesis Impairs Reproductive Development inCaenorhabditis elegans

(2015) Wenqing Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

(2015) Mihaela Pertea et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

(2015) Daehwan Kim et al.   NATURE METHODS

The evolution of parasite genomes and the origins of parasitism

(2015) ANDREW P. JACKSON   PARASITOLOGY

The burden of mental health in lymphatic filariasis

(2015) Thanh G.N. Ton et al.   Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The evolution of parasitism in Nematoda

(2014) MARK BLAXTER et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Insights into the Origin of Nematode Chemosensory GPCRs: Putative Orthologs of the Srw Family Are Found across Several Phyla of Protostomes

(2014) Arunkumar Krishnan et al.   PLoS One

Screening of Odor-Receptor Pairs in Caenorhabditis elegans Reveals Different Receptors for High and Low Odor Concentrations

(2014) G. Taniguchi et al.   Science Signaling

Diverse Host-Seeking Behaviors of Skin-Penetrating Nematodes

(2014) Michelle L. Castelletto et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Utilization of computer processed high definition video imaging for measuring motility of microscopic nematode stages on a quantitative scale: “The Worminator”

(2014) Bob Storey et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance

Infection barriers and responses in mosquito–filarial worm interactions

(2014) Lyric C Bartholomay   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Defining Specificity Determinants of cGMP Mediated Gustatory Sensory Transduction in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2013) Heidi K. Smith et al.   GENETICS

The Draft Genome and Transcriptome of Panagrellus redivivus Are Shaped by the Harsh Demands of a Free-Living Lifestyle

(2013) J. Srinivasan et al.   GENETICS

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Role of sirtuins in lifespan regulation is linked to methylation of nicotinamide

(2013) Kathrin Schmeisser et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Genomics of Loa loa, a Wolbachia-free filarial parasite of humans

(2013) Christopher A Desjardins et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions

(2013) Jaina Mistry et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): high-performance genomics data visualization and exploration

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The Influence of Rate Heterogeneity among Sites on the Time Dependence of Molecular Rates

(2012) Julien Soubrier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

(2012) Johannes Schindelin et al.   NATURE METHODS

Primer3—new capabilities and interfaces

(2012) Andreas Untergasser et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Interaction of structure-specific and promiscuous G-protein-coupled receptors mediates small-molecule signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2012) D. Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Olfaction shapes host-parasite interactions in parasitic nematodes

(2012) A. R. Dillman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

WormAssay: A Novel Computer Application for Whole-Plate Motion-based Screening of Macroscopic Parasites

(2012) Chris Marcellino et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

A Sensory Code for Host Seeking in Parasitic Nematodes

(2011) Elissa A. Hallem et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Heat Avoidance Is Regulated by Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels and a Neuropeptide Signaling Pathway inCaenorhabditis elegans

(2011) Dominique A. Glauser et al.   GENETICS

In vitro chemotactic responses of Brugia pahangi infective larvae to sodium ions

(2011) Y. Mitsui et al.   JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY

Parallel evolution of domesticated Caenorhabditis species targets pheromone receptor genes

(2011) Patrick T. McGrath et al.   NATURE

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The NIH-NIAID Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center

(2011) Michelle L. Michalski et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Development of an In Vivo RNAi Protocol to Investigate Gene Function in the Filarial Nematode, Brugia malayi

(2010) Chuanzhe Song et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide extends the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans mediated by sir-2.1 and daf-16

(2009) Teppei Hashimoto et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Nicotinamidase modulation of NAD+ biosynthesis and nicotinamide levels separately affect reproductive development and cell survival in C. elegans

(2009) T. L. Vrablik et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A hub-and-spoke circuit drives pheromone attraction and social behaviour in C. elegans

(2009) Evan Z. Macosko et al.   NATURE

WormBase: a comprehensive resource for nematode research

(2009) Todd W. Harris et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Two Chemoreceptors Mediate Developmental Effects of Dauer Pheromone in C. elegans

(2009) K. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Mosquito Infection Responses to Developing Filarial Worms

(2009) Sara M. Erickson et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Caenorhabditis chemoreceptor gene families

(2008) James H Thomas et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Sensory Regulation of C. elegans Male Mate-Searching Behavior

(2008) Arantza Barrios et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

3′ UTRs Are the Primary Regulators of Gene Expression in the C. elegans Germline

(2008) Christopher Merritt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Highly Ca2+-selective TRPM Channels Regulate IP3-dependent Oscillatory Ca2+Signaling in theC. elegansIntestine

(2008) Juan Xing et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

(2008) Thomas D Schmittgen et al.   Nature Protocols

Stigma and the Social Burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases

(2008) Mitchell G. Weiss   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

In vitro chemotaxis of Brugia pahangi infective larvae to the sera and hemolymph of mammals and lower animals

(2007) Teruyo Kusaba et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL