Plasmodium genomics: an approach for learning about and ending human malaria

JA Garrido-Cardenas, L González-Cerón… - Parasitology …, 2019 - Springer
Malaria causes high levels of morbidity and mortality in human beings worldwide. According
to the World Health Organization (WHO), about half a million people die of this disease each …

Systems biology of malaria explored with nonhuman primates

MR Galinski - Malaria journal, 2022 - Springer
Abstract “The Primate Malarias” book has been a uniquely important resource for multiple
generations of scientists, since its debut in 1971, and remains pertinent to the present day …

Identification of errors in draft genome assemblies at single-nucleotide resolution for quality assessment and improvement

K Li, P Xu, J Wang, X Yi, Y Jiao - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Assembly of a high-quality genome is important for downstream comparative and functional
genomic studies. However, most tools for genome assembly assessment only give …

The Juicebox Assembly Tools module facilitates de novo assembly of mammalian genomes with chromosome-length scaffolds for under $1000

O Dudchenko, MS Shamim, SS Batra, NC Durand… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Hi-C contact maps are valuable for genome assembly (;;). Recently, we developed Juicebox,
a system for the visual exploration of Hi-C data, and 3D-DNA, an automated pipeline for …

A novel CRISPR-based malaria diagnostic capable of Plasmodium detection, species differentiation, and drug-resistance genoty**

CH Cunningham, CM Hennelly, JT Lin, R Ubalee… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background CRISPR-based diagnostics are a new class of highly sensitive and specific
assays with multiple applications in infectious disease diagnosis. SHERLOCK, or Specific …

Changes in genome organization of parasite-specific gene families during the Plasmodium transmission stages

EM Bunnik, KB Cook, N Varoquaux… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The development of malaria parasites throughout their various life cycle stages is
coordinated by changes in gene expression. We previously showed that the three …

Comparative 3D genome organization in apicomplexan parasites

EM Bunnik, A Venkat, J Shao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The positioning of chromosomes in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell is highly organized and
has a complex and dynamic relationship with gene expression. In the human malaria …

Malaria genomics, vaccine development, and microbiome

X Su, RV Stadler, F Xu, J Wu - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in malaria genetics and genomics have transformed many aspects of
malaria research in areas of molecular evolution, epidemiology, transmission, host–parasite …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct amino acid and lipid perturbations characterize acute versus chronic malaria

RJ Cordy, R Patrapuvich, LN Lili, M Cabrera-Mora… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic malaria is a major public health problem and significant challenge for disease
eradication efforts. Despite its importance, the biological factors underpinning chronic …

Third-generation sequencing revises the molecular karyotype for Toxoplasma gondii and identifies emerging copy number variants in sexual recombinants

J **a, A Venkat, RE Bainbridge, ML Reese… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Toxoplasma gondii is a useful model for intracellular parasitism given its ease of culture in
the laboratory and genomic resources. However, as for many other eukaryotes, the T. gondii …