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  • Phylogenomic, pan-genomic, pathogenomic and evolutionary genomic insights into the agronomically relevant enterobacteria Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea stewartii 
    De Maayer, Pieter; Aliyu, Habibu; Vikram, Surendra; Blom, Jochem; Duffy, Brion; Cowan, Don A.; Smits, Theo H.M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Coutinho, Teresa A. (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-09-14)
    Pantoea ananatis is ubiquitously found in the environment and causes disease on a wide range of plant hosts. By contrast, its sister species, Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is the host-specific causative agent of the ...
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Pseudobarbus (Cyprinidae) : shedding light on the drainage history of rivers associated with the Cape Floristic Region 
    Swartz, E.R. (Ernst Roelof); Skelton, Paul H. (Paul Harvey); Bloomer, Paulette (Elsevier, 2009)
    Relationships among the historically isolated lineages of Pseudobarbus were reconstructed using molecular and morphological data. Contradictions between the molecular and morphological phylogenies suggest convergent evolution ...
  • Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Calonectria 
    Lombard, Lorenzo; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Cbs Publications / Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2010)
    Species of Calonectria are important plant pathogens, several of which have a worldwide distribution. Contemporary taxonomic studies on these fungi have chiefly relied on DNA sequence comparisons of the β-tubulin gene ...
  • Phylogeny and taxonomy of species in the Grosmannia serpens complex 
    Duong, Tuan A.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Mycological Society of America, 2011-11-28)
    Grosmannia serpens was first described from pine in Italy in 1936 and it has been recorded subsequently from many countries in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The fungus is vectored primarily by root-infesting ...
  • Phylogeny, classification and metagenomic bioprospecting of microbial acetyl xylan esterases 
    Adesioye, Fiyinfoluwa Adenike; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Biely, Peter; Cowan, Don A. (Elsevier, 2016-11)
    Acetyl xylan esterases (AcXEs), also termed xylan deacetylases, are broad specificity Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) that hydrolyse ester bonds to liberate acetic acid from acetylated hemicellulose (typically polymeric ...
  • Phylogeography of a morphologically cryptic golden mole assemblage from South-Eastern Africa 
    Mynhardt, Samantha; Maree, Sarita; Pelser, Illona; Bennett, Nigel Charles; Bronner, Gary N.; Wilson, John W.; Bloomer, Paulette (Public Library of Science, 2015-12-18)
    The Greater Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany (GMPA) region of southern Africa was recently designated as a centre of vertebrate endemism. The phylogeography of the vertebrate taxa occupying this region may provide insights ...
  • Physical ecology of hypolithic communities in the central Namib desert : the role of fog, rain, rock habitat, and light 
    Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley A.; McKay, Christopher P.; Boyle, Linda Ng; Wing, Michael R.; Kiekebusch, Elsita M.; Cowan, Don A.; Stomeo, Francesca; Pointing, Stephen B.; Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Eckardt, Frank; Henschel, Joh R.; Anisfeld, Ari; Seely, Mary; Rhodes, Kevin L. (American Geophysical Union, 2013-12)
    [1] Hypolithic microbial communities are productive niches in deserts worldwide, but many facets of their basic ecology remain unknown. The Namib Desert is an important site for hypolith study because it has abundant quartz ...
  • Physiological and molecular responses of ‘Dusa’ avocado rootstock to water stress : insights for drought adaptation 
    Guillermo, Moreno-Ortega; Adela, Zumaquero; Antonio, Matas; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Van den Berg, Noelani; Palomo-Ríos, Elena; Martínez-Ferri, Elsa; Clara, Pliego (MDPI, 2021-09)
    Avocado consumption is increasing year by year, and its cultivation has spread to many countries with low water availability, which threatens the sustainability and profitability of avocado orchards. However, to date, ...
  • Phytophthora species associated with roots of native and non-native trees in natural and managed forests 
    Bose, Tanay; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda; Vivas, Maria; Burgess, Treena I. (Springer, 2021-01)
    Roots act as a biological filter that exclusively allows only a portion of the soil-associated microbial diversity to infect the plant. This microbial diversity includes organisms both beneficial and detrimental to plants. ...
  • The plant disease pyramid : the relevance of the original vision of plant pathology in 2020 
    Slippers, Bernard (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)
    In 1926, Professor Paul A. van der Bijl made an address to the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in his capacity as President of Section C of the Association, entitled ‘Landmarks in the development ...
  • The plant genome integrative explorer resource : PlantGenIE.org 
    Sundell, David; Mannapperuma, Chanaka; Netotea, Sergiu; Delhomme, Nicolas; Lin, Yao-Cheng; Sjodin, Andreas; Van de Peer, Yves; Jansson, Stefan; Hvidsten, Torgeir R.; Street, Nathaniel R. (Wiley, 2015-12)
    Accessing and exploring large-scale genomics data sets remains a significant challenge to researchers without specialist bioinformatics training. We present the integrated PlantGenIE.org platform for exploration of ...
  • Plants of the fynbos biome harbour host species-specific bacterial communities 
    Miyambo, Tsakani Magdeline; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Cowan, Don A.; Valverde, Angel (Oxford University Press, 2016-08)
    The fynbos biome in South Africa is globally recognised as a plant biodiversity hotspot. However, very little is known about the bacterial communities associated with fynbos plants, despite interactions between primary ...
  • The plastid and mitochondrial genomes of Eucalyptus grandis 
    Pinard, Desre; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Mizrachi, Eshchar (BioMed Central, 2019-02-13)
    BACKGROUND : Land plant organellar genomes have significant impact on metabolism and adaptation, and as such, accurate assembly and annotation of plant organellar genomes is an important tool in understanding the evolutionary ...
  • PLAZA 3.0 : an access point for plant comparative genomics 
    Proost, Sebastian; Van Bel, Michiel; Vaneechoutte, Dries; Van de Peer, Yves; Inze, Dirk; Mueller-Roeber, Bernd; Vandepoele, Klaas (Oxford University Press, 2015-01)
    Comparative sequence analysis has significantly altered our view on the complexity of genome organization and gene functions in different kingdoms. PLAZA 3.0 is designed to make comparative genomics data for plants ...
  • PLAZA 4.0 : an integrative resource for functional, evolutionary and comparative plant genomics 
    Van Bel, Michiel; Diels, Tim; Vancaester, Emmelien; Kreft, Lukasz; Botzki, Alexander; Van de Peer, Yves; Coppens, Frederik; Vandepoele, Klaas (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    PLAZA (https://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/plaza) is a plant-oriented online resource for comparative, evolutionary and functional genomics. The PLAZA platform consists of multiple independent instances focusing on ...
  • Poaching forensics : animal victims in the courtroom 
    Harper, Cindy Kim (Annual Reviews, 2023)
    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 ...
  • Pollution shapes the microbial communities in river water and sediments from the Olifants River catchment, South Africa 
    Valverde, Angel; Cason, Errol D.; Gomez-Arias, Alba; Bozkale, Derya; Govender, Danny; Riddell, Eddie; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2021-01)
    Human activities such as agriculture and mining are leading causes of water pollution worldwide. Individual contaminants are known to negatively affect microbial communities. However, the effect of multifaceted pollution ...
  • Poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) antimalaria conjugates of membrane-disruptive peptides 
    Jokonya, Simbarashe; Langlais, Marvin; Leshabane, Meta Kgaogelo; Reader, Paul W.; Vosloo, Johan A.; Pfukwa, Rueben; Coertzen, Dina; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Rautenbach, Marina; Klumperman, Bert (American Chemical Society, 2020-11)
    The concepts of polymer–peptide conjugation and self-assembly were applied to antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the development of a targeted antimalaria drug delivery construct. This study describes the synthesis of α-acetal, ...
  • Polygamous farmed Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) : foetal membranes tell the story 
    Nothling, Johan Oliviette; Nothling, Johan Antowan; Myburgh, Jan G.; Harper, Cindy Kim (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-06)
    Multiple paternity in crocodilian broods would increase effective population size and slow down the loss of genetic variation due to inbreeding and random genetic drift in real populations. Multiple paternity may also ...
  • Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants 
    Barnes, Daniel R.; Rookus, Matti A.; McGuffog, Lesley; Leslie, Goska; Mooij, Thea M.; Dennis, Joe; Mavaddat, Nasim; Adlard, Julian; Ahmed, Munaza; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Andrieu, Nadine; Andrulis, Irene L.; Arnold, Norbert; Arun, Banu K.; Azzollini, Jacopo; Balmana, Judith; Barkardottir, Rosa B.; Barrowdale, Daniel; Benitez, Javier; Berthet, Pascaline; Białkowska, Katarzyna; Blanco, Amie M.; Blok, Marinus J.; Bonanni, Bernardo; Boonen, Susanne E.; Borg, Ake; Bozsik, Aniko; Bradbury, Angela R.; Brennan, Paul; Brewer, Carole; Brunet, Joan; Buys, Saundra S.; Caldes, Trinidad; Caligo, Maria A.; Campbell, Ian; Christensen, Lise Lotte; Chung, Wendy K.; Claes, Kathleen B.M.; Colas, Chrystelle; Collonge-Rame, Marie-Agnes; Cook, Jackie; Daly, Mary B.; Davidson, Rosemarie; De la Hoya, Miguel; De Putter, Robin; Delnatte, Capucine; Devilee, Peter; Diez, Orland; Ding, Yuan Chun; Domchek, Susan M.; Dorfling, Cecilia Maria; Ejlertsen, Bent; Engel, Christoph; Evans, D. Gareth; Faivre, Laurence; Foretova, Lenka; Fostira, Florentia; Friedlander, Michael; Friedman, Eitan; Frost, Debra; Ganz, Patricia A.; Garber, Judy; Gehrig, Andrea; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Gesta, Paul; Giraud, Sophie; Glendon, Gord; Godwin, Andrew K.; Goldgar, David E.; González-Neira, Anna; Greene, Mark H.; Gschwantler-Kaulich, Daphne; Hahnen, Eric; Hamann, Ute; Hanson, Helen; Hentschel, Julia; Hogervorst, Frans B.L.; Hooning, Maartje J.; Horvath, Judit; Hu, Chunling; Hulick, Peter J.; Imyanitov, Evgeny N.; Isaacs, Claudine; Izatt, Louise; Izquierdo, Angel; Jakubowska, Anna; James, Paul A.; Janavicius, Ramunas; John, Esther M.; Joseph, Vijai; Karlan, Beth Y.; Kast, Karin; Koudijs, Marco; Kruse, Torben A.; Kwong, Ava; Laitman, Yael; Lasset, Christine; Lazaro, Conxi; Lester, Jenny; Lesueur, Fabienne; Liljegren, Annelie; Loud, Jennifer T.; Lubinski, Jan; Mai, Phuong L.; Manoukian, Siranoush; Mari, Veronique; Mebirouk, Noura; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E.J.; Meindl, Alfons; Mensenkamp, Arjen R.; Miller, Austin; Montagna, Marco; Mouret-Fourme, Emmanuelle; Mukherjee, Semanti; Mulligan, Anna Marie; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Neuhausen, Susan L.; Nevanlinna, Heli; Niederacher, Dieter; Nielsen, Finn Cilius; Nikitina-Zake, Liene; Nogues, Catherine; Olah, Edith; Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.; Ong, Kai-ren; O’Shaughnessy-Kirwan, Aoife; Osorio, Ana; Ott, Claus-Eric; Papi, Laura; Park, Sue K.; Parsons, Michael T.; Pedersen, Inge Sokilde; Peissel, Bernard; Peixoto, Ana; Peterlongo, Paolo; Pfeiler, Georg; Phillips, Kelly-Anne; Prajzendanc, Karolina; Pujana, Miquel Angel; Radice, Paolo; Ramser, Juliane; Ramus, Susan J.; Rantala, Johanna; Rennert, Gad; Risch, Harvey A.; Robson, Mark; Ronlund, Karina; Salani, Ritu; Schuster, Helene; Senter, Leigha; Shah, Payal D.; Sharma, Priyanka; Side, Lucy E.; Singer, Christian F.; Slavin, Thomas P.; Soucy, Penny; Southey, Melissa C.; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Steinemann, Doris; Steinsnyder, Zoe; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Sutter, Christian; Tan, Yen Yen; Teixeira, Manuel R.; Teo, Soo Hwang; Thull, Darcy L.; Tischkowitz, Marc; Tognazzo, Silvia; Toland, Amanda E.; Trainer, Alison H.; Tung, Nadine; Van Engelen, Klaartje; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth; Vega, Ana; Vierstraete, Jeroen; Wagner, Gabriel; Walker, Lisa; Wang-Gohrke, Shan; Wappenschmidt, Barbara; Weitzel, Jeffrey N.; Yadav, Siddhartha; Yang, Xin; Yannoukakos, Drakoulis; Zimbalatti, Dario; Offit, Kenneth; Thomassen, Mads; Couch, Fergus J.; Schmutzler, Rita K.; Simard, Jacques; Easton, Douglas F.; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Antoniou, Antonis C. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-10)
    PURPOSE : We assessed the associations between population-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast (BC) or epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. METHODS ...