The number of publicly available parasitic worm genome sequences has increased
dramatically in the past three years, and research interest in helminth functional genomics is …

Dirofilaria immitis, also known as heartworm, is a major parasitic threat for dogs and cats
around the world. Because of its impact on the health and welfare of companion animals …

Parasitic nematodes (roundworms) and platyhelminths (flatworms) cause debilitating
chronic infections of humans and animals, decimate crop production and are a major …

White spruce (Picea glauca) is a dominant conifer of the boreal forests of North America, and
providing genomics resources for this commercially valuable tree will help improve forest …

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 …

Generating the raw data for a de novo genome assembly project for a target eukaryotic
species is relatively easy. This democratization of access to large-scale data has allowed …

Background Globodera pallida is a devastating pathogen of potato crops, making it one of
the most economically important plant parasitic nematodes. It is also an important model for …

Anthelmintic resistance has a great impact on livestock production systems worldwide, is an
emerging concern in companion animal medicine, and represents a threat to our ongoing …

The most common intracellular symbiont on the planet—Wolbachia pipientis—is infamous
largely for the reproductive manipulations induced in its host. However, more recent …

Macrocyclic lactone (ML) endectocides are used as chemoprophylaxis for heartworm
infection (Dirofilaria immitis) in dogs and cats. Claims of loss of efficacy (LOE) of ML …