Van Uffelen, Alexander; Posadas, Andres; Roosens, Nancy H.C.; Marchal, Kathleen; De Keersmaecker, Sigrid C. J.; Vanneste, Kevin(Nature Research, 2024-08)
Taxonomic classification is crucial in identifying organisms within diverse microbial communities when using metagenomics shotgun sequencing. While second-generation Illumina sequencing still dominates, third-generation ...
The Tragelaphini, also known as spiral-horned antelope, is a phenotypically diverse mammalian tribe comprising a single genus, Tragelaphus. The evolutionary history of this tribe has attracted the attention of taxonomists ...
Poaching and the international trade in wildlife are escalating problems
driven by poverty and greed and coordinated by increasingly sophisticated
criminal networks. Biodiversity loss, caused by habitat change, is ...
Pine trees are globally important agricultural and ecological species, with Pinus patula being a key species in South Africa’s economically valuable forestry industry. Natural and commercial pine forests are significantly ...
Flynn, Raquel F.; Haraguchi, Lumi; Mcquaid, Jeff; Burger, Jessica M.; Lunga, Percy Mutseka; Stirnimann, Luca; Samanta, Saumik; Roychoudhury, Alakendra N.; Fawcett, Sarah E.(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023-12)
Across the Southern Ocean, large (≥20 μm) diatoms are generally assumed to be the primary vector for carbon export, although this assumption derives mainly from summertime observations. Here, we investigated carbon production ...
Shaffer, Justin P.; Nothias, Louis-Felix; Thompson, Luke R.; Sanders, Jon G.; Salido, Rodolfo A.; Couvillion, Sneha P.; Brejnrod, Asker D.; Lejzerowicz, Franck; Haiminen, Niina; Huang, Shi; Lutz, Holly L.; Zhu, Qiyun; Martino, Cameron; Morton, James T.; Karthikeyan, Smruthi; Nothias-Esposito, Melissa; Duhrkop, Kai; Bocker, Sebastian; Kim, Hyun Woo; Aksenov, Alexander A.; Bittremieux, Wout; Minich, Jeremiah J.; Marotz, Clarisse; Bryant, MacKenzie M.; Sanders, Karenina; Schwartz, Tara; Humphrey, Greg; Vasquez-Baeza, Yoshiki; Tripathi, Anupriya; Parida, Laxmi; Carrieri, Anna Paola; Beck, Kristen L.; Das, Promi; Gonzalez, Antonio; McDonald, Daniel; Ladau, Joshua; Karst, Soren M.; Albertsen, Mads; Ackermann, Gail; DeReus, Jeff; Thomas, Torsten; Petras, Daniel; Shade, Ashley; Stegen, James; Song, Se Jin; Metz, Thomas O.; Swafford, Austin D.; Dorrestein, Pieter C.; Jansson, Janet K.; Gilbert, Jack A.; Knight, Rob; The Earth Microbiome Project 500 (EMP500) Consortium; Angenant, Lars T.; Berry, Alison M.; Bittleston, Leonora S.; Bowen, Jennifer L.; Chavarria, Max; Cowan, Don A.; Distel, Dan; Girguis, Peter R.; Huerta-Cepas, Jaime; Jensen, Paul R.; Jiang, Lingjing; King, Gary M.; Lavrinienko, Anton; MacRae-Crerar, Aurora; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Mappes, Tapio; Marzinelli, Ezequiel M.; Mayer, Gregory; McMahon, Katherine D.; Metcalf, Jessica L.; Miyake, Sou; Mousseau, Timothy A.; Murillo-Cruz, Catalina; Myrold, David; Palenik, Brian; Pinto-Tomas, Adrian A.; Porazinska, Dorota L.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; owher, Forest R.; RoyChowdhury, Taniya; Sandin, Stuart A.; Schmidt, Steven K.; Seedorf, Henning; Shade, Ashley; Shipway, J. Reuben; Smith, Jennifer E.; Stegen, James; Stewart, Frank J.; Tait, Karen; Thomas, Torsten; Tucker, Yael; U’Ren, Jana M.; Watts, Phillip C.; Webster, Nicole S.; Zaneveld, Jesse R.; Zhang, Shan(Nature Research, 2022-12)
Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes
comparisons across studies challenging and hampers insights into
the structure and function of microbial communities across multiple
habitats on a planetary ...
The contribution of germline copy number variants (CNVs) to risk of developing cancer in
individuals with pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 variants remains relatively unknown. We conducted
the largest genome-wide analysis of ...
Zhang, Ticao; Qiao, Qin; Du, Xiao; Zhang, Xiao; Hou, Yali; Wei, Xin; Sun, Chao; Zhang, Rengang; Yun, Quanzheng; Crabbe, M. James C.; Van de Peer, Yves; Dong, Wenxuan(Wiley, 2022-08)
Cultivated hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida var.
major) is an important medicinal and edible plant
with a long history of use for health protection in
China. Herein, we provide a de novo chromosomelevel
genome sequence ...
Nikolaidis, Marios; Markoulatos, Panayotis; Van de Peer, Yves; Oliver, Stephen G.; Amoutzias, Grigorios D.(Oxford University Press, 2022-01)
Coronaviruses (CoVs) have very large RNA viral genomes with a distinct genomic architecture of core and accessory open reading frames (ORFs). It is of utmost importance to understand their patterns and limits of homologous ...
Zhang, Yue; Yang, Xingyu; Van de Peer, Yves; Chen, Jinming; Marchal, Kathleen; Shi, Tao(Wiley, 2022-11)
Both gene duplication and alternative splicing (AS) drive the functional diversity of gene products in plants, yet the relative contributions of the two key mechanisms to the evolution of gene function are largely unclear. ...
Xu, Hui; Li, Zhen; Jiang, Peng-Fei; Zhao, Li; Qu, Chang; Van de Peer, Yves; Liu, Yan-Jing; Zeng, Qing-Yin(Wiley, 2022-04)
Enzymes are essential components of all biological systems. The key characteristics of proteins functioning as enzymes are their substrate specificities and catalytic efficiencies. In plants, most genes encoding enzymes ...
Reader, Janette; Opperman, Daniel; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Theron, Anjo; Leshabane, Meta Kgaogelo; Da Rocha, Michelle; Turner, Jonathan; Garrabrant, Kathleen; Pina, Ivett; Mills, Catherine; Woster, Patrick M.; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie(Wiley, 2022-11)
Malaria elimination requires multipronged approaches, including
the application of antimalarial drugs able to block humanto-
mosquito transmission of malaria parasites. The transmissible
gametocytes of Plasmodium ...
Almeida-Silva, Fabricio; Zhao, Tao; Ullrich, Kristian K.; Schranz, M. Eric; Van de Peer, Yves(Oxford University Press, 2023-01)
Interpreting and visualizing synteny relationships across several genomes is a challenging task. We previously proposed a network-based approach for better visualization and interpretation of large-scale microsynteny ...
Van Wyk, Tanya(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)
This article explores the range of the construct “family” in light of the author’s
experience of how the death of a congregation-member exposed the strength,
persistence and immovability of the construct, “family”. Despite ...
Slater, K.; De Jager, Deon; Van Wyk, A.M.; Dalton, Desire Lee; Kropff, Anna S.; Du Preez, Ilse(Wiley, 2022-09)
Globally, levels of human–wildlife conflict are increasing as a direct consequence of the expansion of people into natural areas resulting in competition with wildlife for food and other resources. By being forced into ...
Molina, Lucia; Rajchenberg, Mario; De Errasti, Andres; Vogel, Braian; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Aime, Mary Catherine; Pildain, Maria Belen(Wiley, 2023-12)
Global forests are increasingly being threatened by altered climatic conditions and increased attacks by pests and pathogens. The complex ecological interactions among pathogens, microbial communities, tree hosts and the ...
Lakeman, Inge M.M.; Van den Broek, Alexandra J.; Vos, Julien A.M.; Barnes, Daniel R.; Adlard, Julian; Andrulis, Irene L.; Arason, Adalgeir; Arnold, Norbert; Arun, Banu K.; Balmana, Judith; Barrowdale, Daniel; Benitez, Javier; Borg, Ake; Caldes, Trinidad; Caligo, Maria A.; Chung, Wendy K.; Claes, Kathleen B.M.; GEMO Study Collaborators; EMBRACE Collaborators; Collee, J. Margriet; Couch, Fergus J.; Daly, Mary B.; Dennis, Joe; Dhawan, Mallika; Domchek, Susan M.; Eeles, Ros; Engel, Christoph; Evans, D. Gareth; Feliubadalo, Lidia; Foretova, Lenka; Friedman, Eitan; Frost, Debra; Ganz, Patricia A.; Garber, Judy; Gayther, Simon A.; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Godwin, Andrew K.; Goldgar, David E.; Hahnen, Eric; Hake, Christopher R.; Hamann, Ute; Hogervorst, Frans B.L.; Hooning, Maartje J.; Hopper, John L.; Hulick, Peter J.; Imyanitov, Evgeny N.; OCGN Investigators; HEBON Investigators; KconFab Investigators; Isaacs, Claudine; Izatt, Louise; Jakubowska, Anna; James, Paul A.; Janavicius, Ramunas; Jensen, Uffe Birk; Jiao, Yue; John, Esther M.; Joseph, Vijai; Karlan, Beth Y.; Kets, Carolien M.; Konstantopoulou, Irene; Kwong, Ava; Legrand, Clementine; Leslie, Goska; Lesueur, Fabienne; Loud, Jennifer T.; Lubinski, Jan; Manoukian, Siranoush; McGuffog, Lesley; Miller, Austin; Gomes, Denise Molina; Montagna, Marco; Mouret-Fourme, Emmanuelle; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Neuhausen, Susan L.; Nevanlinna, Heli; Yuen Yie, Joanne Ngeow; Olah, Edith; Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.; Park, Sue K.; Parsons, Michael T.; Peterlongo, Paolo; Piedmonte, Marion; Radice, Paolo; Rantala, Johanna; Rennert, Gad; Risch, Harvey A.; Schmutzler, Rita K.; Sharma, Priyanka; Simard, Jacques; Singer, Christian F.; Stadler, Zsofia; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Sutter, Christian; Tan, Yen Yen; Teixeira, Manuel R.; Teo, Soo Hwang; Teule, Alex; Thomassen, Mads; Thull, Darcy L.; Tischkowitz, Marc; Toland, Amanda E.; Tung, Nadine; Janse van Rensburg, Elizabeth(Elsevier, 2021-06-10)
PURPOSE : To evaluate the association between a previously published 313 variant–based breast cancer (BC) polygenic risk score
(PRS313) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant ...