Effects of aneuploidy on cell behaviour and function

R Li, J Zhu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, a genomic alternation characterized by deviations in the copy number of
chromosomes, affects organisms from early development through to aging. Although it is a …

Cellular stress associated with aneuploidy

J Zhu, HJ Tsai, MR Gordon, R Li - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Aneuploidy, chromosome stoichiometry that deviates from exact multiples of the haploid
compliment of an organism, exists in eukaryotic microbes, several normal human tissues …

Laboratory diagnostics for human Leishmania infections: a polymerase chain reaction-focussed review of detection and identification methods

I Gow, NC Smith, D Stark, J Ellis - Parasites & Vectors, 2022 - Springer
Leishmania infections span a range of clinical syndromes and impact humans from many
geographic foci, but primarily the world's poorest regions. Transmitted by the bite of a female …

Ancestral aneuploidy and stable chromosomal duplication resulting in differential genome structure and gene expression control in trypanosomatid parasites

JL Reis-Cunha, SA Pimenta-Carvalho… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Aneuploidy is widely observed in both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes, usually
associated with adaptation to stress conditions. Chromosomal duplication stability is a …

Global genome diversity of the Leishmania donovani complex

SU Franssen, C Durrant, O Stark, B Moser, T Downing… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Protozoan parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex–L. donovani and L. infantum–
cause the fatal disease visceral leishmaniasis. We present the first comprehensive genome …

Aneuploidy in yeast: Segregation error or adaptation mechanism?

C Gilchrist, R Stelkens - Yeast, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aneuploidy is the loss or gain of chromosomes within a genome. It is often detrimental and
has been associated with cell death and genetic disorders. However, aneuploidy can also …

Leishmania Genome Dynamics during Environmental Adaptation Reveal Strain-Specific Differences in Gene Copy Number Variation, Karyotype Instability, and …

G Bussotti, E Gouzelou, M Côrtes Boité, I Kherachi… - MBio, 2018 - journals.asm.org
Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania adapt to environmental change through
chromosome and gene copy number variations. Only little is known about external or …

Drug resistance in Leishmania: does it really matter?

MA Domagalska, MP Barrett, JC Dujardin - Trends in Parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Treatment failure (TF) jeopardizes the management of parasitic diseases, including
leishmaniasis. From the parasite's point of view, drug resistance (DR) is generally …

Whole genome sequencing of experimental hybrids supports meiosis-like sexual recombination in Leishmania

E Inbar, J Shaik, SA Iantorno, A Romano… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hybrid genotypes have been repeatedly described among natural isolates of Leishmania,
and the recovery of experimental hybrids from sand flies co-infected with different strains or …

Leishmania Spp-Host Interaction: There Is Always an Onset, but Is There an End?

F Conceição-Silva, FN Morgado - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
For a long time Leishmaniasis had been considered as a neglected tropical disease.
Recently, it has become a priority in public health all over the world for different aspects such …