Author Archives: Alex

Genetic diversity of Atlantic Bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea: insights from genome-wide SNPs and microsatellites

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Aglaia Antoniou, Panagiotis Kasapidis, Georgios Kotoulas, Constantinos C. Mylonas and Antonios Magoulas Info: Scientists from the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research used ddRAD-seq to analyze genome-wide SNPs in the Atlantic Bluefin tuna, with the goal of understanding … more »

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Co-chaperone Hsp70/Hsp90 organizing protein (Hop) is Required for Transposon Silencing and piRNA Biogenesis

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Joseph A. Karam, Rasesh Y. Parikh, Dhananjaya Nayak, David Rosenkranz and Vamsi K. Gangaraju Info: Scientists from South Carolina and Mainz, Germany, studied Hop, a co-chaperone that interacts with a piRNA in Drosophila. They found that knocking … more »

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Metagenomic survey of the taxonomic and functional microbial communities of seawater and sea ice from the Canadian Arctic

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Etienne Yergeau, Christine Michel, Julien Tremblay, Andrea Niemi, Thomas L. King, Joanne Wyglinski, Kenneth Lee, and Charles W. Greera Info: Scientists from Canada and Australia studied how climate change may be affecting microbial communities by performing metagenomic … more »

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Two stable variants of Burkholderia pseudomallei strain MSHR5848 express broadly divergent in vitro phenotypes associated with their virulence differences

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: A. A. Shea, R. C. Bernhards, C. K. Cote, C. J. Chase, et al. Info: Scientists from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases compared two strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei to find variants that … more »

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Detection of individual ploidy levels with genotyping‐by‐sequencing (GBS) analysis

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Zachariah Gompert, Karen E. Mock Info: Utah State University researchers developed a statistical approach to detect low-level ploidy variants using genotyping data from a sequencing workflow. The method does not require prior ploidy information to function. An … more »

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Rapid genetic and morphologic divergence between captive and wild populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Andrew N. Black, Heidi A. Seears, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, and Paul B. Samollow Info: Scientists studied members of two remaining populations of the endangered Leon Springs pupfish, one in a desert spring and the other in captivity. … more »

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De Novo Genome and Transcriptome Assembly of the Canadian Beaver (Castor canadensis)

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Alex

February 2017 Authors: Si Lok, Tara A. Paton, Zhuozhi Wang, Gaganjot Kaur, et al. Info: Researchers in Toronto report a high-quality draft assembly of the 2.7 Gb beaver genome using SMRT Sequencing. They include an analysis of gene content, such … more »

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Q&A: How SageHLS Brings Back the ‘Lost Art’ of HMW DNA Prep

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Alex

Chris Boles is Chief Scientific Officer of Sage Science, where he’s been helping the R&D team develop the new SageHLS (that’s short for HMW Library System), a platform designed to rapidly purify high molecular weight DNA directly from samples. We … more »

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Complete genome sequence of Lutibacter profundi LP1Tisolated from an Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vent system

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Alex

January 2017 Authors: Juliane Wissuwa, Sven Le Moine Bauer, Ida Helene Steen, and Runar Stokke Info: Scientists from the University of Bergen used PacBio sequencing to produce a complete genome assembly for Lutibacter profundi LP1T, an extremophile isolated from a … more »

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Antibiotic discovery throughout the Small World Initiative: A molecular strategy to identify biosynthetic gene clusters involved in antagonistic activity

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Alex

January 2017 Authors: Elizabeth Davis, Tyler Sloan, Krista Aurelius, Angela Barbour, et al. Info: Through a citizen science program, college students analyzed 77 soil-derived bacteria to promote genetic characterization and antibiotic discovery for the fight against drug-resistant pathogens. They chose … more »

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