Nematodes are abundant and diverse, and include many parasitic species. Molecular
phylogenetic analyses have shown that parasitism of plants and animals has arisen at least 15 …

… Lastly, different genomes can have very different proportions of G and C bases, and mixing
low GC genome data with balanced GC genome data may result in assemblies biased …

… dujardini genome to have similar proportion of G + C bases (GC%), and to have the same
coverage in the raw data (because each segment is represented equally in every cell of the …

… Filariasis” focused research project (SICA; contract number 242131); G. Koutsovoulos is
funded by a BBSRC School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh PhD studentship. …

… Here, we report a high quality draft genome of a Ro1 isolate of G. rostochiensis, in combination
with replicated transcriptome data from four key life stages, and genome sequence from …

… model with Gamma distribution of rates model, GTR+G) and PhyloBayes (using a GTR plus
rate categories model, GTR-CAT+G). We also explored bipartition support from individual …

While components of the pathway that establishes left-right asymmetry have been identified
in diverse animals, from vertebrates to flies, it is striking that the genes involved in the first …

The heartworm Dirofilaria immitis is an important parasite of dogs. Transmitted by mosquitoes
in warmer climatic zones, it is spreading across southern Europe and the Americas at an …

… RdRPs and those that initiate in a primer-dependent manner is the presence of an extra loop
in de novo polymerases, often containing aromatic residues, which enables the initiating G …

… GBS was successfully used to compare worldwide populations of G. rostochiensis and to …
Similarly, GBS was used to reveal the phylogenetic links between the new populations of G. …