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  • Architecture and distribution of introns in core genes of four Fusarium species 
    Phasha, Mmatshepho Malekgale; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Santana, Quentin C.; Fourie, Gerda; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Genetics Society of America, 2017-11)
    Removal of introns from transcribed RNA represents a crucial step during the production of mRNA in eukaryotes. Available whole-genome sequences and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have increased our knowledge of this ...
  • Armillaria root rot spreading into a natural woody ecosystem in South Africa 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Musasira, N.Y.; Roux, Jolanda; Roets, F.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2018-05)
    Signs and symptoms of a disease similar to those of armillaria root rot have recently been observed on various native woody plants on the foothills of Table Mountain in South Africa, one of the most botanically diverse ...
  • Armillaria root rot threatens Cameroon’s Penja pepper (Piper nigrum L.) 
    Tigang, Sandrine Petchayo; Tchotet Tchoumi, James Michel; Roux, Jolanda; Nguefack, Julienne; Begoude Boyogueno, Aime Didier; Mbenoun, Michael; Mfegue, Crescence Virginie; Nyasse, Salomon; Nkeng, Michel Ndoumbe; Ten Hoopen, Gerben Martijn (Sociedade Brasileira de Fitopatologia, 2020-10)
    Penja pepper (Piper nigrum) produced in Cameroon has long been recognized for its exceptional organoleptic quality. The pepper vine is grown using a support tree (Spondias mombin) in Cameroon. A root disease is associated ...
  • Armillaria root-rot pathogens : species boundaries and global distribution 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (MDPI, 2018-10-24)
    This review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha ...
  • The artemiside-artemisox-artemisone-m1 tetrad : efficacies against blood stage p. falciparum parasites, dmpk properties, and the case for artemiside 
    Gibhard, Liezl; Coertzen, Dina; Reader, Janette; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Wong, Ho Ning; Batty, Kevin T.; Haynes, Richard K.; Wiesner, Lubbe (MDPI, 2021-12-03)
    Because of the need to replace the current clinical artemisinins in artemisinin combination therapies, we are evaluating fitness of amino-artemisinins for this purpose. These include the thiomorpholine derivative artemiside ...
  • An artificial inoculation protocol for Uromycladium acaciae, cause of a serious disease of Acacia mearnsii in southern Africa 
    Fraser, Stuart; McTaggart, Alistair R.; Chan, Julian Moreno; Nxumalo, Thobile; Shuey, Louise S.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2019)
    Uromycladium acaciae is the cause of a severe wattle rust epidemic in plantations of Acacia mearnsii (black wattle) in southern Africa. Research on the biology of this damaging rust is assisting in the development of control ...
  • ASP-G : an ASP-based method for finding attractors in genetic regulatory networks 
    Mushthofa, Mushthofa; Torres, Gustavo; Van de Peer, Yves; Marchal, Kathleen; De Cock, Martine; Valencia, Alfonso (Oxford University Press, 2014-07-15)
    MOTIVATION : Boolean network models are suitable to simulate gene regulatory networks (GRNs) in the absence of detailed kinetic information. However, reducing the biological reality implies making assumptions on how ...
  • Assembling metagenomes, one community at a time 
    Van der Walt, Andries Johannes; Van Goethem, Marc W.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Reva, Oleg N.; Cowan, Don A. (BioMed Central, 2017-07-10)
    BACKGROUND : Metagenomics allows unprecedented access to uncultured environmental microorganisms. The analysis of metagenomic sequences facilitates gene prediction and annotation, and enables the assembly of draft genomes, ...
  • Assembly of complete genome sequences of negative-control and experimental strain variants of staphylococcus aureus ATCC BAA-39 selected under the effect of the drug FS-1, which induces antibiotic resistance reversion 
    Joubert, Monique; Reva, Oleg N.; Korotetskiy, Ilya S.; Shvidko, Sergey V.; Shilov, Sergey V.; Jumagaziyeva, Ardak B.; Kenesheva, Sabina T.; Suldina, Natalya A.; Ilin, Aleksandr I. (American Society for Microbiology, 2019-07)
    Staphylococcus aureus ATCC BAA-39 is the reference organism for a multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain that was used to study druginduced resistance reversion by an iodine-containing nanomolecular ...
  • Assessing associations between the AURKAHMMR-TPX2-TUBG1 functional module and breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers 
    Blanco, Ignacio; Kuchenbaecker, Karoline; Cuadras, Daniel; Wang, Xianshu; Barrowdale, Daniel; De Garibay, Gorka Ruiz; Librado, Pablo; Sanchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Rozas, Julio; Bonifaci, Nuria; McGuffog, Lesley; Pankratz, Vernon S.; Islam, Abul; Mateo, Francesca; Berenguer, Antoni; Petit, Anna; Catala, Isabel; Brunet, Joan; Feliubadalo, Lidia; Tornero, Eva; Benitez, Javier; Osorio, Ana; Cajal, Teresa Ramony; Nevanlinna, Heli; Aittomaki, Kristiina; Arun, Banu K.; Toland, Amanda Ewart; Karlan, Beth Y.; Walsh, Christine; Lester, Jenny; Greene, Mark H.; Mai, Phuong L.; Nussbaum, Robert L.; Andrulis, Irene L.; Domchek, Susan M.; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Rebbeck, Timothy R.; Barkardottir, Rosa B.; Jakubowska, Anna; Lubinski, Jan; Durda, Katarzyna; Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna; Claes, Kathleen; Van Maerken, T.; Diez, Orland; Hansen, Thomas V.O.; Jonson, Lars; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Ejlertsen, Bent; De la Hoya, Miguel; Caldes, Trinidad; Dunning, Alison M.; Oliver, Clare; Fineberg, Elena; Cook, Margaret; Peock, Susan; McCann, Emma; Murray, Alex; Jacobs, Chris; Pichert, Gabriella; Lalloo, Fiona; Chu, Carol; Dorkins, Huw; Paterson, Joan; Ong, Kai-Ren; Teixeira, Manuel R.; Teixeira; Hogervorst, Frans B.L.; Van der Hout, Annemarie H.; Seynaeve, Caroline; Van der Luijt, Rob B.; Ligtenberg, Marjolijn J.L.; Devilee, Peter; Wijnen, Juul T.; Rookus, Matti A.; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E.J.; Blok, Marinus J.; Van den Ouweland, Ans M.W.; Aalfs, Cora M.; Rodriguez, Gustavo C.; Phillips, Kelly-Anne A.; Piedmonte, Marion; Nerenstone, Stacy R.; Bae-Jump, Victoria L.; O'Malley, David M.; Ratner, Elena S.; Schmutzler, Rita K.; Wappenschmidt, Barbara; Rhiem, Kerstin; Engel, Christoph; Meindl, Alfons; Ditsch, Nina; Arnold, Norbert; Plendl, Hansjoerg; Niederacher, Dieter; Sutter, Christian; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Steinemann, Doris; Preisler-Adams, Sabine; Kast, Karin; Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda; Gehrig, Andrea; Bojesen, Anders; Pedersen, Inge Sokilde; Sunde, Lone; Jensen, Uffe Birk; Thomassen, Mads; Kruse, Torben A.; Foretova, Lenka; Peterlongo, Paolo; Bernard, Loris; Peissel, Bernard; Scuvera, Giulietta; Manoukian, Siranoush; Radice, Paolo; Ottini, Laura; Montagna, Marco; Agata, Simona; Maugard, Christine; Simard, Jacques; Soucy, Penny; Berger, Andreas; Fink-Retter, Anneliese; Singer, Christian F.; Rappaport, Christine; Geschwantler-Kaulich, Daphne; Tea, Muy-Kheng; Pfeiler, Georg; BCFR (Breast Cancer Family Registry); John, Esther M.; Miron, Alexander; Neuhausen, Susan L.; Terry, Mary Beth; Chung, Wendy K.; Daly, Mary B.; Goldgar, David E.; Janavicius, Ramunas; Dorfling, Cecilia Maria; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth; Fostira, Florentia; Konstantopoulou, Irene; Garber, Judy; Godwin, Andrew K.; Olah, Edith; Narod, Steven A.; Rennert, Gad; Paluch, Shani Shimon; Laitman, Yael; Friedman, Eitan; SWE-BRCA; Liljegren, Annelie; Rantala, Johanna; Stenmark-Askmalm, Marie; Loman, Niklas; Imyanitov, Evgeny N.; Hamann, Ute; Investigators, kConFab; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Healey, Sue; Weitzel, Jeffrey N.; Herzog, Josef; Margileth, David; Gorrini, Chiara; Esteller, Manel; Gomez, Antonio; Sayols, Sergi; Vidal, Enrique; Heyn, Holger; GEMO; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Leone, Melanie; Barjhoux, Laure; Fassy-Colcombet, Marion; De Pauw, Antoine; Lasset, Christine; Ferrer, Sandra Fert; Castera, Laurent; Berthet, Pascaline; Cornelis, Francois; Bignon, Yves-Jean; Damiola, Francesca; Mazoyer, Sylvie; Sinilnikova, Olga M.; Maxwell, Christopher A.; Vijai, Joseph; Robson, Mark; Kauff, Noah; Corines, Marina J.; Villano, Danylko; Cunningham, Julie M.; Lee, Adam; Lindor, Noralane; Lázaro, Conxi; Easton, Douglas F.; Offit, Kenneth; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Couch, Fergus J.; Antoniou, Antonis C.; Pujana, Miguel Angel (Public Library of Science, 2015-04-01)
    While interplay between BRCA1 and AURKA-RHAMM-TPX2-TUBG1 regulates mammary epithelial polarization, common genetic variation in HMMR (gene product RHAMM) may be associated with risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation ...
  • Assessment of genome-wide DArT-seq markers for tea Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze germplasm analysis 
    Malebe, Pelly Masixolise; Mphangwe, N.I.K.; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Apostolides, Zeno (Springer, 2019-06)
    Tea is the world’s most consumed beverage, next to water. This makes it an economically important crop. However, the genetic relationship between the cultivars at the Tea Research Foundation of Central Africa (TRFCA) have ...
  • Assessment of temporal and spatial evolution of bacterial communities in a biological sand filter mesocosm treating winery wastewater 
    Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Welz, Pamela J.; Tuffin, Marla I.; Burton, Stephanie G.; Cowan, Don A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
    AIMS : To assess the impact of winery wastewater (WW) on biological sand filter (BSF) bacterial community structures, and to evaluate whether BSFs can constitute alternative and valuable treatment- processes to remediate ...
  • Association between AFLP-based genetic distance and hybrid performance in tropical maize 
    Kiula, Barnabas Anthony; Lyimo, N.G.; Botha, Anna-Maria (Blackwell, 2008-04)
    Please refer to abstract in the article
  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer 
    Rebbeck, Timothy R.; Mitra, Ruchira; Wan, F.; Sinilnikova, Olga M.; Healey, Sue; McGuffog, Lesley; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Easton, Douglas F.; Antoniou, Antonis C.; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Laitman, Yael; Kushnir, A.; Paluch-Shimon, S.; Berger, R.; Zidan, Jamal; Friedman, Eitan; Ehrencrona, Hans; Stenmark-Askmalm, Marie; Einbeigi, Zakaria; Loman, Niklas; Harbst, K.; Rantala, Johanna; Melin, B.; Huo, Dezheng; Olopade, O.I.; Seldon, J.; Ganz, Patricia A.; Nussbaum, Robert L.; Chan, S.B.; Odunsi, Kunle; Gayther, Simon; Domchek, Susan M.; Arun, Banu K.; Lu, Karen H.; Mitchell, Graham; Karlan, Beth Y.; Walsh, Christine; Lester, Jenny; Godwin, Andrew K.; Pathak, H.,; Ross, E.; Daly, Mary B.; Whittemore, Alice S.; John, Esther M.; Miron, Alexander; Terry, Mary Beth; Chung, Wendy K.; Goldgar, David E.; Buys, Saundra S.; Janavičius, R.; Tihomirova, Laima; Tung, Nadine; Dorfling, Cecilia Maria; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth (American Medical Association, 2015-04)
    IMPORTANCE : Limited information about the relationship between specific mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) and cancer risk exists. OBJECTIVE : To identify mutation-specific cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1/2. DESIGN, ...
  • Autophagy efficacy and vitamin D status : population effects 
    Abhimanyu; Meyer, Vanessa; Jones, Brandon R.; Bornman, Liza (Elsevier, 2020-06)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Bacterial nitrogen fixation in sand bioreactors treating winery wastewater with a high carbon to nitrogen ratio 
    Welz, Pamela J.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Braun, Lorenz; Vikram, Surendra; Le Roes-Hill, Marilize (Elsevier, 2018-02)
    Heterotrophic bacteria proliferate in organic-rich environments and systems containing sufficient essential nutrients. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are the nutrients required in the highest concentrations. The ratio ...
  • Bacterial vaginosis : current diagnostic avenues and future opportunities 
    Redelinghuys, Mathys J.; Geldenhuys, Janri; Jung, Hyun-Sul; Kock, Marleen M. (Frontiers Media, 2020-08-11)
    A healthy female genital tract harbors a microbiome dominated by lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria, which provide protection against infections by maintaining a low pH. Changes in the bacterial ...
  • Balancing redox cofactor generation and ATP synthesis : key microaerobic responses in thermophilic fermentations 
    Loftie-Eaton, Wesley; Taylor, Mark; Horne, Kerry; Tuffin, Marla I.; Burton, Stephanie G.; Cowan, Don A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-04)
    Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius is a Gram-positive, thermophilic bacterium capable of ethanologenic fermentation of both C5 and C6 sugars and may have possible use for commercial bioethanol production [Tang et al., 2009; ...
  • Bark beetle mycobiome : collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis 
    Hulcr, Jiri; Barnes, Irene; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Duong, Tuan A.; Gazis, Romina; Johnson, Andrew J.; Jusino, Michelle A.; Kasson, Matthew T.; Li, You; Lynch, Shannon; Mayers, Chase; Musvuugwa, Tendai; Roets, Francois; Seltmann, Katja C.; Six, Diana; Vanderpool, Dan; Villari, Caterina (Springer, 2020-06-03)
    One of the main threats to forests in the Anthropocene are novel or altered interactions among trees, insects and fungi. To critically assess the contemporary research on bark beetles, their associated fungi, and their ...
  • The bark-beetle-associated fungus, endoconidiophora polonica, utilizes the phenolic defense compounds of its host as a carbon source 
    Wadke, Namita; Kandasamy, Dineshkumar; Vogel, Heiko; Lah, Ljerka; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Paetz, Christian; Wright, Louwrance Peter; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Hammerbacher, Almuth (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2016-06)
    Norway spruce (Picea abies) is periodically attacked by the bark beetle Ips typographus and its fungal associate, Endoconidiophora polonica, whose infection is thought to be required for successful beetle attack. Norway ...