Lost and Found: Piwi and Argonaute Pathways in Flatworms

Functional analysis of vasa/PL10-like genes in the ovary of Schistosoma mansoni

(2020) Danielle E. Skinner et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

The piRNA pathway in planarian flatworms: new model, new insights

(2020) Iana V. Kim et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of 4 Paragonimus species provide insights into lung fluke parasitism and pathogenesis

(2020) Bruce A Rosa et al.   GigaScience

Programmed genome editing of the omega-1 ribonuclease of the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni

(2019) Wannaporn Ittiprasert et al.   eLife

Adaptive Radiation of the Flukes of the Family Fasciolidae Inferred from Genome-Wide Comparisons of Key Species

(2019) Young-Jun Choi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Transposable elements: genome innovation, chromosome diversity, and centromere conflict

(2018) Savannah J. Klein et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Functions of the Vasa gene in Schistosoma japonicum as assessed by RNA interference

(2018) Siyu He et al.   GENE

MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms

(2018) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rewired RNAi-mediated genome surveillance in house dust mites

(2018) Mosharrof Mondal et al.   PLoS Genetics

Whole-genome sequence of the oriental lung fluke Paragonimus westermani

(2018) Harald Oey et al.   GigaScience

SMS: Smart Model Selection in PhyML

(2017) Vincent Lefort et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Human Argonaute3 has slicer activity

(2017) Mi Seul Park et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomes of Fasciola hepatica from the Americas Reveal Colonization with Neorickettsia Endobacteria Related to the Agents of Potomac Horse and Human Sennetsu Fevers

(2017) Samantha N. McNulty et al.   PLoS Genetics

MiR-277/4989 regulate transcriptional landscape during juvenile to adult transition in the parasitic helminth Schistosoma mansoni

(2017) Anna V. Protasio et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Embryonic origin of adult stem cells required for tissue homeostasis and regeneration

(2017) Erin L Davies et al.   eLife

The evolution of animal Argonautes: evidence for the absence of antiviral AGO Argonautes in vertebrates

(2017) Niels Wynant et al.   Scientific Reports

A novel type I cystatin of parasite origin with atypical legumain-binding domain

(2017) Jana Ilgová et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolview v2: an online visualization and management tool for customized and annotated phylogenetic trees

(2016) Zilong He et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transgenesis in Strongyloides and related parasitic nematodes: historical perspectives, current functional genomic applications and progress towards gene disruption and editing

(2016) J. B. LOK et al.   PARASITOLOGY

MicroRNAs in Parasitic Helminthiases: Current Status and Future Perspectives

(2016) Pengfei Cai et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

HIV-1 Integrates Widely throughout the Genome of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma mansoni

(2016) Sutas Suttiprapa et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A Transcriptomic-Phylogenomic Analysis of the Evolutionary Relationships of Flatworms

(2015) Bernhard Egger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Antagonistic roles of Nibbler and Hen1 in modulating piRNA 3′ ends inDrosophila

(2015) Hui Wang et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The miRnome of Fasciola hepatica juveniles endorses the existence of a reduced set of highly divergent micro RNAs in parasitic flatworms

(2015) Santiago Fontenla et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification

(2015) S. Blair Hedges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Dual functions of Macpiwi1 in transposon silencing and stem cell maintenance in the flatwormMacrostomum lignano

(2015) Xin Zhou et al.   RNA

RNA–RNA interactions in gene regulation: the coding and noncoding players

(2015) Sonia Guil et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Respective Functions of Two Distinct Siwi Complexes Assembled during PIWI-Interacting RNA Biogenesis in Bombyx Germ Cells

(2015) Kazumichi M. Nishida et al.   Cell Reports

Ancient and Novel Small RNA Pathways Compensate for the Loss of piRNAs in Multiple Independent Nematode Lineages

(2015) Peter Sarkies et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Transfection of Platyhelminthes

(2015) Bárbara Moguel et al.   Biomed Research International

Nuclear genomic signals of the ‘microturbellarian’ roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation

(2015) Christopher E Laumer et al.   eLife

Inclusive taxon sampling suggests a single, stepwise origin of ectolecithality in Platyhelminthes

(2014) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

RNA Clamping by Vasa Assembles a piRNA Amplifier Complex on Transposon Transcripts

(2014) Jordi Xiol et al.   CELL

piRNAs: from biogenesis to function

(2014) E.-M. Weick et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Comparative Genomics of Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) Reveals Shared Genomic Features of Ecto- and Endoparastic Neodermata

(2014) Christoph Hahn et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

RNA interference in Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles: Long dsRNA induces more persistent silencing than siRNA

(2014) Nicolás Dell’Oca et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Regulatory non-coding RNAs: revolutionizing the RNA world

(2014) Biao Huang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Endoribonuclease Dicer Family

(2014) Zeqian Gao et al.   PLoS One

MicroRNA-Specific Argonaute 2 Protein Inhibitors

(2013) Marco F. Schmidt et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Substantial Loss of Conserved and Gain of Novel MicroRNA Families in Flatworms

(2013) Bastian Fromm et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism

(2013) Isheng J. Tsai et al.   NATURE

The Structure of Human Argonaute-2 in Complex with miR-20a

(2012) Elad Elkayam et al.   CELL

Identification of small non-coding RNAs in the planarian Dugesia japonica via deep sequencing

(2012) Yun-Fei Qin et al.   GENOMICS

Phylogenetic analysis of the Argonaute protein family in platyhelminths

(2012) Yadong Zheng   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Amplification of siRNA in Caenorhabditis elegans generates a transgenerational sequence-targeted histone H3 lysine 9 methylation footprint

(2012) Sam Guoping Gu et al.   NATURE GENETICS

PIWI Associated siRNAs and piRNAs Specifically Require the Caenorhabditis elegans HEN1 Ortholog henn-1

(2012) Taiowa A. Montgomery et al.   PLoS Genetics

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Identification and Characterization of Argonaute Protein, Ago2 and Its Associated Small RNAs in Schistosoma japonicum

(2012) Pengfei Cai et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vasa-Like DEAD-Box RNA Helicases of Schistosoma mansoni

(2012) Danielle E. Skinner et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Germline Transgenesis and Insertional Mutagenesis in Schistosoma mansoni Mediated by Murine Leukemia Virus

(2012) Gabriel Rinaldi et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Boule-like genes regulate male and female gametogenesis in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano

(2011) Georg Kuales et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Identification of Echinococcus granulosus microRNAs and their expression in different life cycle stages and parasite genotypes

(2011) M. Cucher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Recent advances in Schistosoma genomics

(2011) M. M. MOURÃO et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

The head-regeneration transcriptome of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

(2011) Thomas Sandmann et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

CD-HIT Suite: a web server for clustering and comparing biological sequences

(2010) Ying Huang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Hidden Markov model speed heuristic and iterative HMM search procedure

(2010) L Steven Johnson et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Somatic stem cells express Piwi and Vasa genes in an adult ctenophore: Ancient association of “germline genes” with stemness

(2010) Alexandre Alié et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Dual Platform Approach to Transcript Discovery for the Planarian Schmidtea Mediterranea to Establish RNAseq for Stem Cell and Regeneration Biology

(2010) Martin J. Blythe et al.   PLoS One

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

High-resolution profiling and discovery of planarian small RNAs

(2009) Marc R. Friedländer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny of Catenulida and support for Platyhelminthes

(2008) K LARSSON et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The PIWI proteins SMEDWI-2 and SMEDWI-3 are required for stem cell function and piRNA expression in planarians

(2008) D. Palakodeti et al.   RNA

Development of Functional Genomic Tools in Trematodes: RNA Interference and Luciferase Reporter Gene Activity in Fasciola hepatica

(2008) Gabriel Rinaldi et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases