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 ...
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 P.; 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 ...
Euphyllophytes encompass almost all extant plants, including two sister clades, ferns and seed plants. Decoding genomes of ferns is the key to deep insight into the origin of euphyllophytes and the evolution of seed plants. ...
Chang, Jiyang; Marczuk-Rojas, Juan Pablo; Waterman, Carrie; Garcia-Llanos, Armando; Chen, Shiyu; Ma, Xiao; Hulse-Kemp, Amanda; Van Deynze, Allen; Van de Peer, Yves; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo(Wiley Open Access, 2022-09)
The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) selected the highly nutritious, fast
growing and drought tolerant tree crop moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) as one of
the first of 101 plant species to have its genome sequenced ...
Qiao, Qin; Edger, Patrick P.; Xue, Li; Qiong, La; Lu, Jie; Zhang, Yichen; Cao, Qiang; Yocca, Alan E.; Platts, Adrian E.; Knapp, Steven J.; Van Montagu, Marc; Van de Peer, Yves; Lei, Jiajun; Zhang, Ticao(National Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
Strawberry (Fragaria spp.) has emerged as a model system for various fundamental and applied research in recent years. In total, the genomes of five different species have been sequenced over the past 10 y. Here, we report ...
Hibiscus hamabo is a semi-mangrove species with strong tolerance to salt and waterlogging stress. However, the molecular basis and mechanisms that underlie this strong adaptability to harsh environments remain poorly ...
Modesto, Ines; Inacio, Vera; Van de Peer, Yves; Miguel, Celia(Nature Research, 2022-03-25)
Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, or pinewood nematode (PWN), is a serious threat to pine forests in Europe. Pinus pinaster is highly susceptible to the disease and it ...