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Blaxter Lab Publications 2006

Fenn, K., and Blaxter M.L. (2006; February). Wolbachia genomes: Revealing the biology of parasitism and mutualism. Trends in Parasitology

Ulrike Heider, Mark Blaxter, Achim Hoerauf, Kenneth M. Pfarr (in press) Differential display of genes expressed in the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis reveals a putative phosphate permease up-regulated after depletion of Wolbachia endobacteria. International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Blaxter Lab Publications 2005

Blaxter M. 2005. Molecular helminthology in the Rockies. Keystone Symposium on Molecular Helminthology, Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, 9-13 April 2005. Genome Biol 6(7):329.

Blaxter M, Mann J, Chapman T, Thomas F, Whitton C, Floyd R, Abebe E. 2005. Defining operational taxonomic units using DNA barcode data. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360(1462):1935-1943.

Cook AA, Bhadury P, Debenham NJ, Meldal BHM, Blaxter ML, Smerdon GR, Austen MC, Lambshead PJD, Rogers AD. 2005. Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) as a tool for the identification of marine nematodes. Prog Marine Ecol Res 291:103-113.

Davison A, Blaxter M. 2005a. Ancient origin of glycosyl hydrolase family 9 cellulase genes. Mol Biol Evol 22(5):1273-1284.

Davison A, Blaxter ML. 2005b. An expressed sequence tag survey of gene expression in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, an intermediate vector of Fasciola hepatica. Parasitology 130(Pt 5):539-552.

Ford L, Guiliano DB, Oksov Y, Debnath AK, Liu J, Williams SA, Blaxter ML, Lustigman S. 2005. Characterization of a novel filarial serine protease inhibitor, Ov-SPI-1, from Onchocerca volvulus, with potential multifunctional roles during development of the parasite. J Biol Chem 280(49):40845-40856.

Geldhof P, Whitton C, Gregory WF, Blaxter M, Knox DP. 2005. Characterisation of the two most abundant genes in the Haemonchus contortus expressed sequence tag dataset. Int J Parasitol 35(5):513-522.

Jones M, Blaxter M. 2005. Evolutionary biology: animal roots and shoots. Nature 434(7037):1076-1077.

Mitreva M, Blaxter ML, Bird DM, McCarter JP. 2005. Comparative genomics of nematodes. Trends Genet 21(10):573-581

Papanicolaou A, Joron M, McMillan WO, Blaxter ML, Jiggins CD. 2005. Genomic tools and cDNA derived markers for butterflies. Mol Ecol 14(9):2883-2897.

Blaxter Lab Publications 2004

Aboobaker AA, Blaxter ML. 2004. Functional genomics for parasitic nematodes and platyhelminths. Trends Parasitol 20(4):178-184.

Blaxter M, Elsworth B, Daub J. 2004a. DNA taxonomy of a neglected animal phylum: an unexpected diversity of tardigrades. Proc Biol Sci 271 Suppl 4:S189-192.

Blaxter M, Floyd R, Dorris M, Eyualem A, De Ley P. 2004b. Utilising the new nematode phylogeny for studies of parasitism and diversity. In: Cook R, Hunt DJ, editors. Nematology Monographs and Perspectives. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p 615-632.

Blaxter M, Whitton C, Thompson M, Daub J, Guiliano D, Stirton M, Jieru Y, Aboobaker A, Parkinson J. 2004c. Comparative nematode genomics. In: Cook R, Hunt DJ, editors. Nematology Monographs and Perspectives. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p 557-571.

Blaxter ML. 2004. The promise of a DNA taxonomy. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359(1444):669-679.

Davison A, Blaxter ML. 2004. An expressed sequence tag survey of gene expression in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis, an intermediate vector of Fasciola hepatica. Parasitology 130:1-14.

De Ley P, Blaxter M. 2004. A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa. In: Cook R, Hunt DJ, editors. Nematology Monographs and Perspectives. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p 633-653.

Fenn K, Blaxter M. 2004a. Are filarial nematode Wolbachia obligate mutualist symbionts? Trends Ecol Evol 19:163-166.

Fenn K, Blaxter M. 2004b. Quantification of Wolbachia bacteria in Brugia malayi through the nematode lifecycle. Mol Biochem Parasitol 137(2):361-364.

Foster J, Baldo L, Blaxter M, Henkle-Dührsen K, Whitton C, Slatko B, Bandi C. 2004a. The bacterial catalase from filarial DNA preparations derives from common pseudomonad contaminants and not from Wolbachia endosymbionts. Parasitology Research 10:10.1007/s00436-00004-01195-00434.

Foster JM, Kumar S, Ganatra MB, Kamal IH, Ware J, Ingram J, Pope-Chappell J, Guiliano D, Whitton C, Daub J, Blaxter ML, Slatko BE. 2004b. Construction of bacterial artificial chromosome libraries from the parasitic nematode Brugia malayi and physical mapping of the genome of its Wolbachia endosymbiont. Int J Parasitol 34(6):733-746.

Guiliano DB, Hong X, McKerrow JH, Blaxter ML, Oksov Y, Liu J, Ghedin E, Lustigman S. 2004. A gene family of cathepsin L-like proteases of filarial nematodes are associated with larval molting and cuticle and eggshell remodeling. Mol Biochem Parasitol 136(2):227-242.

Harcus YM, Parkinson J, Fernandez C, Daub J, Selkirk ME, Blaxter ML, Maizels RM. 2004. Signal sequence analysis of expressed sequence tags from the nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and the evolution of secreted proteins in parasites. Genome Biol 5(6):R39.

Lamb TJ, Le Goff L, Kurniawan A, Guiliano DB, Fenn K, Blaxter ML, Read AF, Allen JE. 2004. Most of the response elicited against Wolbachia surface protein in filarial nematode infection is due to the infective larval stage. J Infect Dis 189(1):120-127.

Parkinson J, Anthony A, Wasmuth J, Schmid R, Hedley A, Blaxter M. 2004a. PartiGene - constructing partial genomes. Bioinformatics 20(9):1398-1404.

Parkinson J, Blaxter M. 2004. Expressed sequence tags: analysis and annotation. Methods Mol Biol 270:92-102.

Parkinson J, Mitreva M, Whitton C, Thomson M, Daub J, Martin J, Schmid R, Hall N, Barrell B, Waterston RH, McCarter JP, Blaxter ML. 2004b. A transcriptomic analysis of the phylum Nematoda. Nat Genet 36(12):1259-1267.

Parkinson J, Whitton C, Schmid R, Thomson M, Blaxter M. 2004c. NEMBASE: a resource for parasitic nematode ESTs. Nucleic Acids Res 32(1):D427-430.

Tawill S, Le Goff L, Ali F, Blaxter M, Allen JE. 2004. Both free-living and parasitic nematodes induce a characteristic Th2 response that is dependent on the presence of intact glycans. Infect Immun 72(1):398-407.

Wasmuth JD, Blaxter ML. 2004. prot4EST: translating expressed sequence tags from neglected genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 5(1):187.

Whitton C, Daub J, Quail M, Hall N, Foster J, Ware J, Ganatra M, Slatko B, Barrell B, Blaxter M. 2004a. A genome sequence survey of the filarial nematode Brugia malayi: repeats, gene discovery, and comparative genomics. Mol Biochem Parasitol 137:215-227.

Whitton C, Daub J, Thompson M, Blaxter M. 2004b. Expressed sequence tags: medium-throughput protocols. Methods Mol Biol 270:75-92.

Blaxter Lab Publications 2003

Aboobaker A, Blaxter M. 2003a. Hox gene evolution in nematodes: novelty conserved. Curr Opin Genet Dev 13(6):593-598.

Aboobaker AA, Blaxter ML. 2003b. Hox gene loss during dynamic evolution of the nematode cluster. Curr Biol 13(1):37-40.

Aboobaker AA, Blaxter ML. 2003c. Use of RNA interference to investigate gene function in the human filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 129:41-51.

Blaxter M. 2003a. Comparative genomics: two worms are better than one. Nature 426(6965):395-396.

Blaxter M. 2003b. Molecular systematics: Counting angels with DNA. Nature 421(6919):122-124.

Blaxter M, Abebe E, Floyd R. 2003a. Nematode Barcoding: Identification and ecology through sequence. Soil Biodiversity (NERC Thematic Programme Newsletter) May 2003.

Blaxter M, Elsworth B, Daub J. 2003b. DNA taxonomy of a neglected animal phylum: an unexpected diversity of tardigrades. Proc R Soc Lond Ser B:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0130.

Blaxter ML. 2003c. Nematoda: genes, genomes and the evolution of parasitism. Adv Parasitol 54:101-195.

Blaxter ML, Floyd R. 2003. Molecular taxonomics for biodiversity surveys: already a reality. Trends Ecol Evol 18:268-269.

Eyualem A, Blaxter M. 2003. Comparison of biological, molecular and morphological methods of species identification in a set of cultured Panagrolaimus isolates. J Nematol 35:119-128.

Kenyon F, Welsh M, Parkinson J, Whitton C, Blaxter ML, Knox DP. 2003. Expressed sequence tag survey of gene expression in the scab mite Psoroptes ovis--allergens, proteases and free-radical scavengers. Parasitology 126(Pt 5):451-460.

Parkinson J, Blaxter M. 2003. SimiTri--visualizing similarity relationships for groups of sequences. Bioinformatics 19(3):390-395.

Parkinson J, Mitreva M, Hall N, Blaxter M, McCarter JP. 2003. 400000 nematode ESTs on the Net. Trends Parasitol 19(7):283-286.

Stürzenbaum SR, Parkinson J, Blaxter ML, Morgan AJ, Kille P, Georgiev O. 2003. The earthworm EST sequencing project. Pedobiologia 47:447-451.

Blaxter Lab Publications 2002

Blaxter M. 2002a. Opinion piece. Genome sequencing: time to widen our horizons. Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 1(1):7-9.

Blaxter M, Daub J, Guiliano D, Parkinson J, Whitton C. 2002. The Brugia malayi genome project: expressed sequence tags and gene discovery. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96(1):7-17.

Blaxter ML. 2002b. Parasite Genomics. In: Koumeniecki R, Marr J, Nilsen TW, editors. Molecular Medical Parasitology. New York: Academic Press. p in press.

De Ley P, Blaxter ML. 2002. Systematic position and phylogeny. In: Lee D, editor. The Biology of Nematodes. London: Taylor & Francis. p 1-30.

Dorris M, Viney ME, Blaxter ML. 2002. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Strongyloides and related nematodes. Int J Parasitol 32(12):1507.

Floyd R, Eyualem A, Papert A, Blaxter M. 2002. Molecular barcodes for soil nematode identification. Mol Ecol 11(4):839-850.

Goldstein B, Blaxter M. 2002. Tardigrades. Curr Biol 12(14):R475.

Gomez-Escobar N, Gregory WF, Britton C, Murray L, Corton C, Hall N, Daub J, Blaxter ML, Maizels RM. 2002. Abundant larval transcript-1 and -2 genes from Brugia malayi: diversity of genomic environments but conservation of 5' promoter sequences functional in Caenorhabditis elegans. Mol Biochem Parasitol 125(1-2):59-71.

Guiliano DB, Hall N, Jones SJ, Clark LN, Corton CH, Barrell BG, Blaxter ML. 2002. Conservation of long-range synteny and microsynteny between the genomes of two distantly related nematodes. Genome Biol 3(10):RESEARCH0057.

Kippert F, Saunders DS, Blaxter ML. 2002a. C. elegans has a circadian clock. Current Biology 12:R47-R49.

Kippert F, Saunders DS, Blaxter ML. 2002b. Caenorhabditis elegans has a circadian clock. Curr Biol 12(2):R47-49.

Loke P, Nair MG, Parkinson J, Guiliano D, Blaxter M, Allen JE. 2002. IL-4 dependent alternatively-activated macrophages have a distinctive in vivo gene expression phenotype. BMC Immunol 3(1):7.

Parkinson J, Guiliano DB, Blaxter M. 2002. Making sense of EST sequences by CLOBBing them. BMC Bioinformatics 3:31.

Ware J, Moran L, Foster J, Posfai J, Vincze T, Guiliano D, Blaxter M, Eisen J, Slatko B. 2002. Sequencing and analysis of a 63 kb bacterial artificial chromosome insert from the Wolbachia endosymbiont of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi. Int J Parasitol 32(2):159-166.

Blaxter Lab Publications 2001

Blaxter M. 2001a. Evolutionary biology. Sum of the arthropod parts. Nature 413(6852):121-122.

Blaxter M, Daub J, Guiliano D, Parkinson J, Whitton C, The Filarial Genome Project. 2001. The Brugia malayi genome project: expressed sequence tags and gene discovery. Transactions of the Royal Society of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 96:1-11.

Blaxter ML. 2001b. Molecular analysis of nematode evolution. In: Kennedy MW, Harnett W, editors. Parasitic nematodes: molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology. St. Albans, United Kingdom: CAB International. p 1-24.

Foster JM, Kamal IH, Daub J, Swan MC, Ingram JR, Ganatra M, Ware J, Guiliano D, Aboobaker A, Moran L, Blaxter M, Slatko BE. 2001. Hybridization to high-density filter arrays of a Brugia malayi BAC library with biotinylated oligonucleotides and PCR products. Biotechniques 30(6):1216-1222.

Maizels RM, Blaxter ML, Scott AL. 2001. Immunological genomics of Brugia malayi: filarial genes implicated in immune evasion and protective immunity. Parasite Immunol 23(7):327-344.

Parkinson J, Whitton C, Guiliano D, Daub J, Blaxter M. 2001. 200000 nematode expressed sequence tags on the Net. Trends Parasitol 17(8):394-396

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