Establishment and partial characterisation of a new cell line derived from adult tissues of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans

Autor: Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Lee R. Haines, Giovanni Petrucci, Alexandra Beliavskaia, Catherine Hartley, Jing Jing Khoo, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Adly M. M. Abd-Alla, Alistair C. Darby

Publikováno v: Parasites & Vectors, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2024)

Abstract Background Insect cell lines play a vital role in many aspects of research on disease vectors and agricultural pests. The tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans is an important vector of salivarian trypanosomes in sub-Saharan Africa and, as

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Spiroplasma Isolated From Third-Generation Laboratory Colony Ixodes persulcatus Ticks

Autor: Alexandra Beliavskaia, Vaclav Hönig, Jan Erhart, Tereza Vyhlidalova, Martin Palus, Jiri Cerny, Irina Kozlova, Daniel Ruzek, Ana M. Palomar, Lesley Bell-Sakyi

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Vol 8 (2021)

Spiroplasma are vertically-transmitted endosymbionts of ticks and other arthropods. Field-collected Ixodes persulcatus have been reported to harbour Spiroplasma, but nothing is known about their persistence during laboratory colonisation of this tick

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Isolation and Propagation of Laboratory Strains and a Novel Flea-Derived Field Strain of Wolbachia in Tick Cell Lines

Autor: Jing Jing Khoo, Timothy J. Kurtti, Nurul Aini Husin, Alexandra Beliavskaia, Fang Shiang Lim, Mulya Mustika Sari Zulkifli, Alaa M. Al-Khafaji, Catherine Hartley, Alistair C. Darby, Grant L. Hughes, Sazaly AbuBakar, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Lesley Bell-Sakyi

Publikováno v: Microorganisms, Vol 8, Iss 7, p 988 (2020)

Wolbachia are intracellular endosymbionts of several invertebrate taxa, including insects and nematodes. Although Wolbachia DNA has been detected in ticks, its presence is generally associated with parasitism by insects. To determine whether or not W

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Stepwise evolution of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 causing bloodstream infection in Africa

Autor: Rebecca J. Bennett, Melita A. Gordon, Rebecca J. Bengtsson, Mike P. Mautanga, Neil Hall, Jessica A. Bevington, Xiaojun Zhu, Alexandra Beliavskaia, P. Malaka De Silva, Arthur Bowers-Barnard, Kate S. Baker, Benjamin Kumwenda, Jay C. D. Hinton, Hermione J. Webster, François-Xavier Weill, George E. Stenhouse, Blanca M. Perez-Sepulveda, Happy C. Banda, Nicholas A. Feasey, Will P. M. Rowe, Reenesh Prakash, Ella V. Rodwell, Alexander V. Predeus, Caisey V. Pulford, Nicolas Wenner, Amy Dumigan, José A. Bengoechea, Alistair C. Darby, Rocío Canals, Alicia Tran-Dien, Lovemore Alufandika

Publikováno v: Nature Microbiology
Pulford, C V, Perez-Sepulveda, B M, Canals, R, Bevington, J A, Bengtsson, R J, Wenner, N, Rodwell, E V, Kumwenda, B, Zhu, X, Bennett, R J, Stenhouse, G E, Malaka De Silva, P, Webster, H J, Bengoechea, J A, Dumigan, A, Tran-Dien, A, Prakash, R, Banda, H C, Alufandika, L, Mautanga, M P, Bowers-Barnard, A, Beliavskaia, A Y, Predeus, A V, Rowe, W P M, Darby, A C, Hall, N, Weill, F X, Gordon, M A, Feasey, N A, Baker, K S & Hinton, J C D 2021, ' Stepwise evolution of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 causing bloodstream infection in Africa ', Nature Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 327-338 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-00836-1

Bloodstream infections caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella are a major public health concern in Africa, causing ~49,600 deaths every year. The most common Salmonella enterica pathovariant associated with invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella disease is Salm

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-00836-1

Chromosome-level genome assembly and structural variant analysis of two laboratory yeast strains from the Peterhof Genetic Collection lineage

Autor: Alexander V. Predeus, Yury A. Barbitoff, Andrew G. Matveenko, Dmitrii E. Polev, S. E. Moskalenko, Polina Drozdova, Alexandra Beliavskaia, Evgeniia M Maksiutenko, Galina A. Zhouravleva, Lavrentii G. Danilov, Anton B Matiiv

Publikováno v: G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Vol 11, Iss 4 (2021)

Thousands of yeast genomes have been sequenced with both traditional and long-read technologies, and multiple observations about modes of genome evolution for both wild and laboratory strains have been drawn from these sequences. In our study, we app

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https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab029