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  • Emergent adaptive behaviour of GRN-controlled simulated robots in a changing environment 
    Yao, Yao; Storme, Veronique; Marchal, Kathleen; Van de Peer, Yves (PeerJ, 2016-12-21)
    We developed a bio-inspired robot controller combining an artificial genome with an agent-based control system. The genome encodes a gene regulatory network (GRN) that is switched on by environmental cues and, following ...
  • Endophyte isolations from Syzygium cordatum and a Eucalyptus clone (Myrtaceae) reveal new host and geographical reports for the Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae 
    Marsberg, Angelica; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Gryzenhout, Marieka (Springer, 2014-09)
    Speci e s of Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae (Ascomycetes) cause important leaf, shoot and canker diseases globally on a broad range of hosts, including Eucalyptus and other Myrtaceae. Recently, species of the ...
  • Energetic basis of microbial growth and persistence in desert ecosystems 
    Leung, Pok Man; Bay, Sean K.; Meier, Dimitri V.; Chiri, Eleonora; Cowan, Don A.; Gillor, Osnat; Woebken, Dagmar; Greening, Chris (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-03)
    Microbial life is surprisingly abundant and diverse in global desert ecosystems. In these environments, microorganisms endure a multitude of physicochemical stresses, including low water potential, carbon and nitrogen ...
  • The energy cost of protein turnover is arbitrarily distributed between maintenance requirements and protein retention efficiency – response by Roux 
    Roux, Carl Z. (Cambridge University Press, 2009-10)
    In my investigation of the problem of the allocation of the cost of body protein resynthesis, I found in all the examples that I was able to examine that conventional multiple regression efficiency satisfactorily approximates ...
  • Energy from thin air  
    Cowan, Don A.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-12-06)
    Advanced genomic-analysis techniques now suggest that microbial communities in cold, nutrient-poor Antarctic soils can acquire their energy from the oxidation of trace gases, rather than by photosynthesis.
  • Engineering pyruvate decarboxylase-mediated ethanol production in the thermophilic host Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius 
    Van Zyl, Leonardo J.; Taylor, M.P.; Eley, K.; Tuffin, Marla I.; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2014-02)
    This study reports the expression, purification and kinetic characterization of a PDC from Gluconobacter oxydans. Kinetic analyses showed the enzyme to have high affinity for pyruvate (120μM at pH 5), high catalytic ...
  • Enhanced production of withaferin - a in shoot cultures of Withania somnifera (L) Dunal 
    Mir, Bilal Ahmad; Khazir, Jabeena; Hakeem, Khalid R.; Koul, Sushma; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2014-10)
    Withania somnifera (L) Dunal, commonly known as ashwagandha or Indian ginseng, is the source of large number of pharmacologically active withanolides. Withaferin-A (WS-3), a major withanolide of W. somnifera, has been ...
  • Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics 
    Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Kramer, Rolf; Van Goethem, Marc W.; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Hogg, Ian D.; Cowan, Don A. (BioMed Central, 2017-07-19)
    BACKGROUND : The Antarctic continent is considered the coldest and driest place on earth with simple ecosystems, devoid of higher plants. Soils in the ice-free regions of Antarctica are known to harbor a wide range ...
  • Environmentally friendly methods for controlling pine pitch canker 
    Martin-Garcia, J.; Zas, R.; Solla, A.; Woodward, S.; Hantula, Jarkko; Vainio, E.J.; Mullett, Martin S.; Morales-Rodriguez, C.; Vannini, A.; Martinez-Alvarez, P.; Pinto, G.; Alves, A.; Amaral, J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Fourie, Gerda; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Ahumada, R.; Sera, B.; Sanz-Ros, A.V.; Raposo, R.; Elvira-Recuenco, M.; Iturritxa, E.; Gordon, T.R.; Diez, J.J. (Wiley, 2019-06)
    Fusarium circinatum is a highly virulent invasive pathogen that causes the disease commonly known as pine pitch canker (PPC). On mature trees, the most common symptoms of PPC include resin bleeding, resinous cankers, wilting ...
  • Epidemiological aspects of the persistent transmission of rabies during an outbreak (2010 – 2017) in Harare, Zimbabwe 
    Coetzer, Andre; Gwenhure, Lambert; Makaya, Pious; Markotter, Wanda; Nel, Louis Hendrik (Public Library of Science, 2019-01-10)
    Canine-mediated human rabies is endemic to the entire African continent, where the disease burden is often highest in rural communities of resource-limited countries. In this study, we analysed an animal rabies outbreak, ...
  • Epigenetic inhibitors target multiple stages of Plasmodium falciparum parasites 
    Coetzee, Nanika; Von Gruning, Hilde; Opperman, Daniel; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Reader, Janette; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-02-11)
    The epigenome of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is associated with regulation of various essential processes in the parasite including control of proliferation during asexual development as well as control ...
  • The epistatic landscape of antibiotic resistance of different clades of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
    Muzondiwa, Dillon; Hlanze, Hleliwe; Reva, Oleg N. (MDPI, 2021-07-15)
    Drug resistance (DR) remains a global challenge in tuberculosis (TB) control. In order to develop molecular-based diagnostic methods to replace the traditional culture-based diagnostics, there is a need for a thorough ...
  • Epitypification of Ceratocystis fimbriata 
    Marincowitz, Seonju; Barnes, Irene; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J. (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2020-12)
    Ceratocystis accommodates many important pathogens of agricultural crops and woody plants. Ceratocystis fimbriata, the type species of the genus is based on a type that is unsuitable for a precise application and ...
  • Establishment of an entirely plasmid-based reverse genetics system for Bluetongue virus 
    Pretorius, Jakobus Maree; Huismans, H. (Henk), 1942-; Theron, Jacques (Elsevier, 2015-12)
    Bluetongue virus (BTV), the type species of the genus Orbivirus within the family Reoviridae, has a genome consisting of 10 linear double-stranded RNA genome segments. Current reverse genetics approaches for engineering ...
  • Estimating the total number of phosphoproteins and phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteomes 
    Vlastaridis, Panayotis; Kyriakidou, Pelagia; Chaliotis, Anargyros; Van de Peer, Yves; Oliver, Stephen G.; Amoutzias, Grigoris D. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    BACKGROUND : Phosphorylation is the most frequent post-translational modification made to proteins and may regulate protein activity as either a molecular digital switch or a rheostat. Despite the cornucopia of high-throughput ...
  • The Eucalyptus grandis NBS-LRR gene family : physical clustering and expression hotspots 
    Christie, Nanette; Tobias, Peri A.; Naidoo, Sanushka; Kulheim, Carsten (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-01-12)
    Eucalyptus grandis is a commercially important hardwood species and is known to be susceptible to a number of pests and pathogens. Determining mechanisms of defense is therefore a research priority. The published genome ...
  • The Eucalyptus terpene synthase gene family 
    Kulheim, Carsten; Padovan, Amanda; Hefer, Charles; Krause, Sandra T.; Kollner, Tobias G.; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Degenhardt, Jorg; Foley, William J. (BioMed Central, 2015-06-11)
    BACKGROUND : Terpenoids are abundant in the foliage of Eucalyptus, providing the characteristic smell as well as being valuable economically and influencing ecological interactions. Quantitative and qualitative inter- ...
  • EuGI : a novel resource for studying genomic islands to facilitate horizontal gene transfer detection in eukaryotes 
    Clasen, Frederick Johannes; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Slippers, Bernard; Reva, Oleg N. (BioMed Central, 2018-05-03)
    BACKGROUND : Genomic islands (GIs) are inserts of foreign DNA that have potentially arisen through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). There are evidences that GIs can contribute significantly to the evolution of prokaryotes. ...
  • The Euscaphis japonica genome and the evolution of malvids 
    Sun, Wei-Hong; Li, Zhen; Xiang, Shuang; Ni, Lin; Zhang, Diyang; Chen, De-Qiang; Qiu, Meng-Yuan; Zhang, Qi-Gong; Xiao, Lin; Din, Le; Li, Yifan; Liao, Xing-Yu; Liu, Xue-Die; Jiang, Yu-Ting; Zhang, Pei-Lan; Ni, Hui; Wang, Yifan; Yue, Yi-Xun; Wu, Xi; Din, Xiang-Qing; Huang, Wei; Wang, Zhi-Wen; Ma, Xiaokai; Liu, Bobin; Zou, Xiao-Xing; Van de Peer, Yves; Liu, Zhong-Jian; Zou, Shuang-Quan (Wiley, 2021-12)
    Malvids is one of the largest clades of rosids, includes 58 families and exhibits remarkable morphological and ecological diversity. Here, we report a high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly for Euscaphis japonica, ...
  • Euwallacea perbrevis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), a confirmed pest on Acacia crassicarpa in Riau, Indonesia, and a new fungal symbiont; Fusarium rekanum sp. nov. 
    Lynn, Kira Mary Theresa; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duran, Alvaro; Marincowitz, Seonju; Oliveira, Leonardo S.S.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Barnes, Irene (Springer, 2020-06)
    Non-native Acacia plantations in Indonesia were first reported to be infested by a native ambrosia beetle species, identified as Euwallacea fornicatus in 1993. Recently the level of infestation in these plantations by ...