Transcriptomic and proteomic insights into innate immunity and adaptations to a symbiotic lifestyle in the gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis

Closely coupled evolutionary history of ecto- and endosymbionts from two distantly related animal phyla

(2016) Judith Zimmermann et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Repurposed Transcriptomic Data Facilitate Discovery of Innate Immunity Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) Genes Across Lophotrochozoa

(2016) Kenneth M. Halanych et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Diversity of animal immune receptors and the origins of recognition complexity in the deuterostomes

(2015) Katherine M. Buckley et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Use of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by a bacteria-animal symbiosis from seagrass sediments

(2015) Manuel Kleiner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Articulating “Archiannelids”: Phylogenomics and Annelid Relationships, with Emphasis on Meiofaunal Taxa

(2015) Sónia C.S. Andrade et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

(2015) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Site-related differences in gene expression and bacterial densities in the mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus from the Menez Gwen and Lucky Strike deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites

(2014) Raul Bettencourt et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Symbiotic Bacterial Metabolites Regulate Gastrointestinal Barrier Function via the Xenobiotic Sensor PXR and Toll-like Receptor 4

(2014) Madhukumar Venkatesh et al.   IMMUNITY

Gene expression of TLR homologues identified by genome-wide screening of the earthworm Dendrobaena veneta

(2014) Trine F Fjøsne et al.   Innate Immunity

LocTree3 prediction of localization

(2014) Tatyana Goldberg et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Galectin from the Kuruma Shrimp (Marsupenaeus japonicus) Functions as an Opsonin and Promotes Bacterial Clearance from Hemolymph

(2014) Xiu-Zhen Shi et al.   PLoS One

Molecular cloning and expression of TLR in the Eisenia andrei earthworm

(2013) František Škanta et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

A tandem-repeat galectin from blood clam Tegillarca granosa and its induced mRNA expression response against bacterial challenge

(2013) Yongbo Bao et al.   Genes & Genomics

Identification and expression analysis of a novel R-type lectin from the coleopteran beetle, Tenebrio molitor

(2013) Dong Hyun Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

iLoc-Animal: a multi-label learning classifier for predicting subcellular localization of animal proteins

(2013) Wei-Zhong Lin et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Antibacterial membrane attack by a pore-forming intestinal C-type lectin

(2013) Sohini Mukherjee et al.   NATURE

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

(2013) Hiutung Chu et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Invertebrate lysozymes: Diversity and distribution, molecular mechanism and in vivo function

(2012) Joris M Van Herreweghe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Expression and Putative Function of Innate Immunity Genes under in situ Conditions in the Symbiotic Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae

(2012) Spencer V. Nyholm et al.   PLoS One

Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

(2012) M. Kleiner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System

(2012) L. V. Hooper et al.   SCIENCE

Toll-Like Receptors Promote Mutually Beneficial Commensal-Host Interactions

(2012) Jason L. Kubinak et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Two novel homologs of simple C-type lectin in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus): Potential role in immune response to bacteria

(2011) Feng Liu et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Sequence variability of the pattern recognition receptor Mermaid mediates specificity of marine nematode symbioses

(2011) Silvia Bulgheresi et al.   ISME Journal

Defining the Boundaries and Characterizing the Landscape of Functional Genome Expression in Vascular Tissues of Populus using Shotgun Proteomics

(2011) Paul Abraham et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

A novel antimicrobial peptide from skin secretions of the earthworm, Pheretima guillelmi (Michaelsen)

(2011) Wenliang Li et al.   PEPTIDES

Proteomic Characterization of Cellular and Molecular Processes that Enable the Nanoarchaeum equitans-Ignicoccus hospitalis Relationship

(2011) Richard J. Giannone et al.   PLoS One

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

EMIRGE: reconstruction of full-length ribosomal genes from microbial community short read sequencing data

(2011) Christopher S Miller et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Peptidoglycan Recognition Proteins Protect Mice from Experimental Colitis by Promoting Normal Gut Flora and Preventing Induction of Interferon-γ

(2010) Sukumar Saha et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

TIR domain-containing adaptor SARM is a late addition to the ongoing microbe–host dialog

(2010) Qing Zhang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Characterization and immune function of two intracellular sensors, HmTLR1 and HmNLR, in the injured CNS of an invertebrate

(2010) Virginie Cuvillier-Hot et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The Primary Role of Fibrinogen-Related Proteins in Invertebrates Is Defense, Not Coagulation

(2010) Patrick C. Hanington et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

The role of pattern-recognition receptors in innate immunity: update on Toll-like receptors

(2010) Taro Kawai et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

FrameDP: sensitive peptide detection on noisy matured sequences

(2009) J. Gouzy et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Interaction of notochord-derived fibrinogen-like protein with Notch regulates the patterning of the central nervous system of Ciona intestinalis embryos

(2009) Shigehiro Yamada et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

IDPicker 2.0: Improved Protein Assembly with High Discrimination Peptide Identification Filtering

(2009) Ze-Qiang Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Do symbiotic bacteria subvert host immunity?

(2009) Lora V. Hooper   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission

(2009) J. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crystal structures of the cadmium- and mercury-substituted metallo-β-lactamase from Bacteroides fragilis

(2009) Nestor O. Concha et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Experimental Approach for Deep Proteome Measurements from Small-Scale Microbial Biomass Samples

(2008) Melissa R. Thompson et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

The Drosophila Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein PGRP-LF Blocks PGRP-LC and IMD/JNK Pathway Activation

(2008) Frédéric Maillet et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

An ancient and variable mannose-binding lectin from the coral Acropora millepora binds both pathogens and symbionts

(2008) E. Charlotte E. Kvennefors et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The function of rhamnose-binding lectin in innate immunity by restricted binding to Gb3

(2008) Yasuharu Watanabe et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Multiple bacterial symbionts in two species of co-occurring gutless oligochaete worms from Mediterranean sea grass sediments

(2008) Caroline Ruehland et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Galectins: structure, function and therapeutic potential

(2008) Ri-Yao Yang et al.   EXPERT REVIEWS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Fibrinogen-related protein from amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri is a multivalent pattern recognition receptor with a bacteriolytic activity

(2008) Chunxin Fan et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Paneth cells directly sense gut commensals and maintain homeostasis at the intestinal host-microbial interface

(2008) S. Vaishnava et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism of Self-Sterility in a Hermaphroditic Chordate

(2008) Y. Harada et al.   SCIENCE

Toll-like receptor genes (TLRs) from Capitella capitata and Helobdella robusta (Annelida)

(2007) Charis R. Davidson et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY