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Genes, Volume 11, Issue 9

September 2020 - 159 articles

Cover Story: The beetle–fungus symbioses of drugstore and cigarette beetles with their symbiont Symbiotaphrina are a forgotten system of animal–fungus interactions. Several features make them unique research organisms, including 1) the symbiont is both extracellular and intracellular during the life cycle of the host, and 2) both beetle and fungus can be cultured in isolation. Fungal symbionts intracellularly infect cells in the larval and adult beetle gut, while accessory glands in adult females harbor extracellular fungi that are passed to the next generation. Modern methods provide incredible opportunities for these systems to emerge as model organisms for research spanning the microbiota, pathogenesis/infection, and mutualism. View this paper
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Articles (159)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,882 Views
11 Pages

22 September 2020

Embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) is an aggressive and rare pediatric embryonal brain tumor. Amplification of C19MC microRNA cluster and expression of LIN28 are distinctive features of ETMR. Despite the increasing efforts to decipher...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
13,937 Views
27 Pages

An Overview of Alternative Splicing Defects Implicated in Myotonic Dystrophy Type I

  • Andrea López-Martínez,
  • Patricia Soblechero-Martín,
  • Laura de-la-Puente-Ovejero,
  • Gisela Nogales-Gadea and
  • Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza

22 September 2020

Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy, caused by expansion of a CTG triplet repeat in the 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR) of the myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) gene. The pathological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,889 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2020

Grapevine Pinot gris virus (GPGV) is a putative causal agent of grapevine leaf mottling and deformation disease that has been reported worldwide throughout the grapevine-growing regions. Fifty-four grapevines collected from five Algerian grapevine-gr...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,819 Views
11 Pages

22 September 2020

Most of the circRNAs reported to date originate from back splicing of a pre-mRNA, and these exonic circRNAs are termed canonical circRNAs. Our objective was to provide an overview of all other (non-canonical) circRNAs that do not originate from the j...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,105 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2020

The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has provided unprecedented insight into the molecular complexity of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). This has led to the emergence of biomarker-driven treatment paradigms that challenge empiric t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,924 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2020

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified tens of genetic variants associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Nevertheless, the genes or DNA elements that affect traits through these genetic variations are usually undiscovered. This study...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,538 Views
13 Pages

21 September 2020

Genome instability is a crucial and early event associated with an increased predisposition to tumor formation. In the absence of any exogenous agent, a single human cell is subjected to about 70,000 DNA lesions each day. It has now been shown that p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,658 Views
14 Pages

Gene Polymorphisms of TLR4 and TLR9 and Haemophilus influenzae Meningitis in Angolan Children

  • Elina Tenhu,
  • Johanna Teräsjärvi,
  • Manuel Leite Cruzeiro,
  • Okko Savonius,
  • Emilie Rugemalira,
  • Irmeli Roine,
  • Qiushui He and
  • Tuula Pelkonen

21 September 2020

Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a severe disease caused by various bacterial pathogens. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) protect humans from invading pathogens. In this study, we determined whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TLR4 and TLR9 are a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,606 Views
10 Pages

An Ensemble Approach to Predict the Pathogenicity of Synonymous Variants

  • Satishkumar Ranganathan Ganakammal and
  • Emil Alexov

21 September 2020

Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) are a major form of genetic variation in the human genome that contribute to various disorders. There are two types of SNVs, namely non-synonymous (missense) variants (nsSNVs) and synonymous variants (sSNVs), predomi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,772 Views
16 Pages

Aliarcobacter butzleri from Water Poultry: Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence and Heavy Metal Resistance

  • Eva Müller,
  • Mostafa Y. Abdel-Glil,
  • Helmut Hotzel,
  • Ingrid Hänel and
  • Herbert Tomaso

21 September 2020

Aliarcobacter butzleri is the most prevalent Aliarcobacter species and has been isolated from a wide variety of sources. This species is an emerging foodborne and zoonotic pathogen because the bacteria can be transmitted by contaminated food or water...

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