Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge

Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

(2014) Rei Kajitani et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

An abundant LEA protein in the anhydrobiotic midge, PvLEA4, acts as a molecular shield by limiting growth of aggregating protein particles

(2013) Rie Hatanaka et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Improved tolerance to salt and water stress in Drosophila melanogaster cells conferred by late embryogenesis abundant protein

(2013) Matthew R. Marunde et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Functional Roles of Slow Enzyme Conformational Changes in Network Dynamics

(2012) Zhanghan Wu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

Late embryogenesis abundant proteins protect human hepatoma cells during acute desiccation

(2012) S. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

LEA Proteins During Water Stress: Not Just for Plants Anymore

(2011) Steven C. Hand et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

The induction of anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid: Current status of our knowledge

(2011) Richard Cornette et al.   IUBMB LIFE

The Interplay between Protein L-Isoaspartyl Methyltransferase Activity and Insulin-Like Signaling to Extend Lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2011) Shilpi Khare et al.   PLoS One

Molecular phylogeny and the time of divergence of minges (Chironomidae, Nematocera, Diptera) inferred from a partial nucleotide sequence of the cytochrome oxidase I gene (COI)

(2011) A. G. Demin et al.   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Expression of heat shock protein-coding genes associated with anhydrobiosis in an African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki

(2010) Oleg Gusev et al.   CELL STRESS & CHAPERONES

Enzymatic control of anhydrobiosis-related accumulation of trehalose in the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki

(2010) Kanako Mitsumasu et al.   FEBS Journal

Phylogenetic inference of Indian malaria vectors from multilocus DNA sequences

(2010) Jyotsana Dixit et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Identification of Anhydrobiosis-related Genes from an Expressed Sequence Tag Database in the Cryptobiotic MidgePolypedilum vanderplanki(Diptera; Chironomidae)

(2010) Richard Cornette et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Aquaporin Gene Family of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti

(2010) Lisa L. Drake et al.   PLoS One

Anhydrobiosis-Associated Nuclear DNA Damage and Repair in the Sleeping Chironomid: Linkage with Radioresistance

(2010) Oleg Gusev et al.   PLoS One

Desiccation-Induced Structuralization and Glass Formation of Group 3 Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Model Peptides

(2009) Tempei Shimizu et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Tardigrade workbench: comparing stress-related proteins, sequence-similar and functional protein clusters as well as RNA elements in tardigrades

(2009) Frank Förster et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GSFlx

(2009) Eli Meyer et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The role of aquaporins in excretion in insects

(2009) J. H. Spring et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching

(2009) T. L. Bailey et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

High Hydrostatic Pressure Tolerance of Four Different Anhydrobiotic Animal Species

(2009) Daiki D. Horikawa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Using ESTs for phylogenomics: can one accurately infer a phylogenetic tree from a gappy alignment?

(2008) Stefanie Hartmann et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Inventory, evolution and expression profiling diversity of the LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) protein gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2008) Natacha Bies-Ethève et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Vitrification is essential for anhydrobiosis in an African chironomid,Polypedilum vanderplanki

(2008) Minoru Sakurai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2008) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   SCIENCE

Germination, Genetics, and Growth of an Ancient Date Seed

(2008) S. Sallon et al.   SCIENCE

Dehydration-inducible changes in expression of two aquaporins in the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki

(2007) Takahiro Kikawada et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Glutaredoxins and thioredoxins in plants

(2007) Yves Meyer et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH