Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii (2015)
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(2015). Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2693-2709. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.115.021436

The success of vector control strategies aiming to decrease disease transmission via the release of sterile or genetically-modified male mosquitoes critically depends on mating between laboratory-reared males and wild females. Unfortunately, mosquito... Read More about Heterosis Increases Fertility, Fecundity and Survival of Laboratory-Produced F1 Hybrid Males of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles coluzzii.

Does extreme asymmetric dominance promote hybridization between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s. in seasonal malaria mosquito communities of West Africa? (2015)
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(2015). Does extreme asymmetric dominance promote hybridization between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s. in seasonal malaria mosquito communities of West Africa?. Parasites and Vectors, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1190-x

Background
Anopheles gambiae s.s. and An. coluzzii are two of the most important malaria vector species in sub-Saharan Africa. These recently-diverged sibling species do not exhibit intrinsic post-zygotic barriers to reproduction and are thought to... Read More about Does extreme asymmetric dominance promote hybridization between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae s.s. in seasonal malaria mosquito communities of West Africa?.

Genomic dissection of the 1994 Cronobacter sakazakii outbreak in a French neonatal intensive care unit (2015)
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Masood. (2015). Genomic dissection of the 1994 Cronobacter sakazakii outbreak in a French neonatal intensive care unit. BMC Genomics, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1961-y

Background: Cronobacter sakazakii is a member of the genus Cronobacter that has frequently been isolated from powdered infant formula (PIF) and linked with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis. The Cron... Read More about Genomic dissection of the 1994 Cronobacter sakazakii outbreak in a French neonatal intensive care unit.

Cumulin, an Oocyte-secreted Heterodimer of the Transforming Growth Factor-ß Family, Is a Potent Activator of Granulosa Cells and Improves Oocyte Quality (2015)
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(2015). Cumulin, an Oocyte-secreted Heterodimer of the Transforming Growth Factor-ß Family, Is a Potent Activator of Granulosa Cells and Improves Oocyte Quality. Journal of biological chemistry, 24007 -24020. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M115.671487

Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) and bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) are oocyte-specific growth factors with central roles in mammalian reproduction, regulating species-specific fecundity, ovarian follicular somatic cell differentiation,... Read More about Cumulin, an Oocyte-secreted Heterodimer of the Transforming Growth Factor-ß Family, Is a Potent Activator of Granulosa Cells and Improves Oocyte Quality.

Global Gene Expression Profiling through the Complete Life Cycle of Trypanosoma vivax. (2015)
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(2015). Global Gene Expression Profiling through the Complete Life Cycle of Trypanosoma vivax. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, e0003975 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003975

The parasitic flagellate Trypanosoma vivax is a cause of animal trypanosomiasis across Africa and South America. The parasite has a digenetic life cycle, passing between mammalian hosts and insect vectors, and a series of developmental forms adapted... Read More about Global Gene Expression Profiling through the Complete Life Cycle of Trypanosoma vivax..

Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for Sporadic Giardiasis and Parasite Assemblages in North West England (2015)
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(2015). Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for Sporadic Giardiasis and Parasite Assemblages in North West England. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 3133 - 3140. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00715-15

Giardia duodenalis is a major cause of infectious gastroenteritis worldwide, and it is diversified into eight genetic assemblages (A to H), which are distinguishable only by molecular typing. There is some evidence that the assemblages infecting huma... Read More about Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for Sporadic Giardiasis and Parasite Assemblages in North West England.

Bumblebee pupae contain high levels of aluminium (2015)
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(2015). Bumblebee pupae contain high levels of aluminium. PloS one, e0127665 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.+pone.0127665

The causes of declines in bees and other pollinators remains an on-going debate. While recent attention has focussed upon pesticides, other environmental pollutants have largely been ignored. Aluminium is the most significant environmental contaminan... Read More about Bumblebee pupae contain high levels of aluminium.

A large-scale proteogenomics study of apicomplexan pathogens-Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum (2015)
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(2015). A large-scale proteogenomics study of apicomplexan pathogens-Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum. Proteomics, 2618 -2628. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201400553

Proteomics data can supplement genome annotation efforts, for example being used to confirm gene models or correct gene annotation errors. Here, we present a large-scale proteogenomics study of two important apicomplexan pathogens: Toxoplasma gondii... Read More about A large-scale proteogenomics study of apicomplexan pathogens-Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum.

Local mechanisms for loud sound-enhanced aminoglycoside entry into outer hair cells. (2015)
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(2015). Local mechanisms for loud sound-enhanced aminoglycoside entry into outer hair cells. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 130 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2015.00130

Loud sound exposure exacerbates aminoglycoside ototoxicity, increasing the risk of permanent hearing loss and degrading the quality of life in affected individuals. We previously reported that loud sound exposure induces temporary threshold shifts (T... Read More about Local mechanisms for loud sound-enhanced aminoglycoside entry into outer hair cells..

Targeting male mosquito mating behaviour for malaria control (2015)
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(2015). Targeting male mosquito mating behaviour for malaria control. Parasites and Vectors, 347. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0961-8

Malaria vector control relies heavily on the use of Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS). These, together with the combined drug administration efforts to control malaria, have reduced the death toll to less than... Read More about Targeting male mosquito mating behaviour for malaria control.