Publications from the Blaxter lab

Mark Blaxter is on ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-4113-2010

2010

Experimental evolution, genetic analysis and genome re-sequencing reveal the mutation conferring artemisinin resistance in an isogenic lineage of malaria parasites Paul Hunt, Axel Martinelli, Katarzyna Modrzynska, Sofia Borges, Alison Creasey, Louise Rodrigues, Dario Beraldi, Laurence Loewe, Richard Fawcett, Sujai Kumar, Marian Thomson, Urmi Trivedi, Thomas D Otto, Arnab Pain, Mark Blaxter and Pedro Cravo BMC Genomics 2010, 11:499doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-499 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/499/abstract

Acs Z, Challis RJ, Bihari P, Blaxter M, Hayward A, Melika G, Csoka G, Penzes Z, Pujade-Villar J, Nieves-Aldrey JL et al: Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of inquiline oak gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) of the Western Palaearctic. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2010, 55(1):210-225.

Creer S, Fonseca VG, Porazinska DL, Giblin-Davis RM, Sung W, Power DM, Packer M, Carvalho GR, Blaxter ML, Lambshead PJD et al: Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises. Molecular Ecology 2010, 19:4-20.

Green S, Studholme DJ, Laue BE, Dorati F, Lovell H, Arnold D, Cottrell JE, Bridgett S, Blaxter M, Huitema E et al: Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum. PLoS One 2010, 5(4):e10224.

Hunt PW, McNally J, Barris W, Blaxter ML: Duplication and divergence: The evolution of nematode globins. J Nematol 2010, 41:35-51.

Kegel JU, Blaxter M, Allen MJ, Metfies K, Wilson WH, Valentin K: Transcriptional host-virus interaction of Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyceae) and EhV-86 deduced fromcombined analysis of expressed sequence tags and microarrays. European Journal of Phycology 2010, 45:1-12.

Rota-Stabelli O, Kayal E, Gleeson D, Daub J, Boore JL, Telford MJ, Pisani D, Blaxter M, Lavrov DV: Ecdysozoan mitogenomics: evidence for a common origin of the legged invertebrates, the Panarthropoda. Genome Biol Evol 2010, 2:425-440.

Swain S, Wren JF, Sturzenbaum SR, Kille P, Morgan AJ, Jager T, Jonker MJ, Hankard PK, Svendsen C, Owen J et al: Linking toxicant physiological mode of action with induced gene expression changes in Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Syst Biol 2010, 4:32.

2009

The Nematode Story: Hox Gene Loss and Rapid Evolution
Aziz Aboobaker and Mark Blaxter (2009), in J. Deutch (ed) 'Hox Genes. Studies from the 21st Century' Landes Bioscience, Austin, TX.
https://www.landesbioscience.com/curie/chapter/4484/

Transcriptional host-virus interaction of Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyceae) and EhV-86 deduced from combined analysis of expressed sequence tags and microarrays
Jessica U. Kegel, Mark Blaxter, Michael J. Allen, Katja Metfies, William H. Wilson and Klaus Valentin (2009) European Journal of Phycology in press

A P2X receptor from the tardigrade species Hypsibius dujardini with fast kinetics and sensitivity to zinc and copper.
Bavan, S., V. A. Straub, M. L. Blaxter and S. J. Ennion (2009). BMC Evol Biol 9: 17.

A cryptoendolithic community in volcanic glass.
Herrera, A., C. S. Cockell, S. Self, M. Blaxter, J. Reitner, T. Thorsteinsson, G. Arp, W. Drose and A. G. Tindle (2009). Astrobiology 9: 369-81.

Analysis of the genome sequences of three Drosophila melanogaster spontaneous mutation accumulation lines.
Keightley, P. D., U. Trivedi, M. Thomson, F. Oliver, S. Kumar and M. L. Blaxter (2009). Genome Res 19: 1195-201.

The components of the Daphnia pulex immune system as revealed by complete genome sequencing.
McTaggart, S. J., C. Conlon, J. K. Colbourne, M. L. Blaxter and T. J. Little (2009). BMC Genomics 10: 175.

Expressed sequence tags: an overview.
Parkinson, J. and M. Blaxter (2009). Methods Mol Biol 533: 1-12.

EST processing: from trace to sequence.
Schmid, R. and M. Blaxter (2009). Methods Mol Biol 533: 189-220.

Obtaining accurate translations from expressed sequence tags.
Wasmuth, J. and M. Blaxter (2009). Methods Mol Biol 533: 221-39.

USE OF MICROARRAYS TO STUDY ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT ORGANISMS: A UK PERSPECTIVE.
Michael J. Allen, Andrew R. Cossins, Neil Hall, Mark Blaxter, Terry Burke and Dawn Field (2009) Environmental Research Journal 3 Issue 4

2008

On the extent and origins of genic novelty in the phylum nematoda.
Wasmuth J, Schmid R, Hedley A, Blaxter M. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2008, 2(7):e258.

Comparative transcriptomic responses to chronic cadmium, fluoranthene and atrazine exposure in Lumbricus rubellus.
Svendsen C, Owen J, Kille P, Wren J, Jonker MJ, Headley BA, Morgan AJ, Blaxter M, Sturzenbaum SR, Hankard PK et al. Environmental science & technology 2008, 42(11):4208-4214.

annot8r: rapid assignment of GO, EC and KEGG annotations
Schmid R, Blaxter ML. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(1):180.

Transcriptome profiling of developmental and xenobiotic responses in a keystone soil animal, the oligochaete annelid Lumbricus rubellus
Owen J, Hedley BA, Svendsen C, Wren J, Jonker MJ, Hankard PK, Lister LJ, Sturzenbaum SR, Morgan AJ, Spurgeon DJ et al. BMC Genomics 2008, 9:266.

Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
Abad P, Gouzy J, Aury JM, Castagnone-Sereno P, Danchin EG, Deleury E, Perfus-Barbeoch L, Anthouard V, Artiguenave F, Blok VC et al. Nat Biotechnol 2008.

Bacterial colonization and weathering of terrestrial obsidian in Iceland
Herrera A, Cockell CS, Self S, Blaxter M, Reitner J, Arp G, Dröse W, Tindle AG. Geomicrobiology 2008, in press.

USE OF ARRAYS WITH NON-MODEL ORGANISMS: A UK PERSPECTIVE
Michael J. Allen, Andrew R. Cossins, Neil Hall, Mark Blaxter, Terry Burke and Dawn Field (2008) in Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ISBN: 978-1-60456-542-3 Editors: M.K. Moretti and L.J. Rizzo, pp. 405-420 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

2007

Association of the matrix attachment region recognition signature with coding regions in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Anthony A, Blaxter M: BMC Genomics 2007, 8:418.

An improved molecular phylogeny of the Nematoda with special emphasis on marine taxa.
Meldal BH, Debenham NJ, De Ley P, De Ley IT, Vanfleteren JR, Vierstraete AR, Bert W, Borgonie G, Moens T, Tyler PA et al: Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007, 42(3):622-636.

Draft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi.
Ghedin E, Wang S, Spiro D, Caler E, Zhao Q, Crabtree J, Allen JE, Delcher AL, Guiliano DB, Miranda-Saavedra D, Angiuoli SV, Creasy T, Amedeo P, Haas B, El-Sayed NM, Wortman JR, Feldblyum T, Tallon L, Schatz M, Shumway M, Koo H, Salzberg SL, Schobel S, Pertea M, Pop M, White O, Barton GJ, Carlow CK, Crawford MJ, Daub J, Dimmic MW, Estes CF, Foster JM, Ganatra M, Gregory WF, Johnson NM, Jin J, Komuniecki R, Korf I, Kumar S, Laney S, Li BW, Li W, Lindblom TH, Lustigman S, Ma D, Maina CV, Martin DM, McCarter JP, McReynolds L, Mitreva M, Nutman TB, Parkinson J, Peregrin-Alvarez JM, Poole C, Ren Q, Saunders L, Sluder AE, Smith K, Stanke M, Unnasch TR, Ware J, Wei AD, Weil G, Williams DJ, Zhang Y, Williams SA, Fraser-Liggett C, Slatko B, Blaxter ML, Scott AL.
Science. 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1756-60.
Supplementary Information (all SOM, including 16 Tables - 3.3 Mb)

ButterflyBase: a platform for lepidopteran genomics
Alexie Papanicolaou, Steffi Gebauer-Jung, Mark L. Blaxter, W. Owen McMillan and Chris D. Jiggins
Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, 1–6 doi:10.1093/nar/gkm853

The effect of model choice on phylogenetic inference using mitochondrial sequence data: lessons from the scorpions.
Jones M, Gantenbein B, Fet V, Blaxter M.
Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2007 May;43(2):583-95. Epub 2006 Nov 29.
Supplementary Information

Symbiont Genes in Host Genomes: Fragments with a Future?
Mark Blaxter
Cell Host & Microbe (2007), doi:10.1016/j.chom.2007.09.008

Coexist, cooperate and thrive: Wolbachia as long-term symbionts of filarial nematodes.
Katelyn Fenn and Mark Blaxter
in Hoerauf A, Rao R (eds): Wolbachia. Issues Infect Dis. Basel, Karger, 2007, vol 5, pp 66–76

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