Host-pathogen coevolution drives innate immune response to Aphanomyces astaci infection in freshwater crayfish: transcriptomic evidence [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background For over a century, scientists have studied host-pathogen interactions between the crayfish plague disease agent Aphanomyces astaci and freshwater crayfish.
Ljudevit Luka Boštjančić +12 more
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The methylome of the marbled crayfish links gene body methylation to stable expression of poorly accessible genes [PDF]
Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2018 Background The parthenogenetic marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a novel species that has rapidly invaded and colonized various different habitats.
Fanny Gatzmann +6 more
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Combining Old and New Tricks: The Study of Genes, Neurons, and Behavior in Crayfish [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 For over a century the nervous system of decapod crustaceans has been a workhorse for the neurobiology community. Many fundamental discoveries including the identification of electrical and inhibitory synapses, lateral and pre-synaptic inhibition, and ...
Wolfgang Stein +6 more
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Feeding in predator naïve crayfish is influenced by cues from a fish predator [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 In this study, we experimentally evaluated how the feeding behaviour of marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis is influenced by cues from conspecifics and the round goby Neogobius melanostomus, a fish predator, in tanks that permitted chemical ...
Martin Musil +4 more
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Time-resolved, integrated analysis of clonally evolving genomes. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2023 Clonal genome evolution is a key feature of asexually reproducing species and human cancer development. While many studies have described the landscapes of clonal genome evolution in cancer, few determine the underlying evolutionary parameters from ...
Carine Legrand +4 more
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Location-Dependent DNA Methylation Signatures in a Clonal Invasive Crayfish [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that has been repeatedly implied in organismal adaptation. However, many previous studies that have linked DNA methylation patterns to environmental parameters have been limited by confounding ...
Sina Tönges +7 more
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Comparative ultrastructure of the antennae and sensory hairs in six species of crayfish [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Antennae in crayfish are essential for gaining information about the local topography and localising food, chemicals, conspecifics or predator.
Golara Kor +4 more
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Long-term changes in the prevalence of the crayfish plague pathogen and its genotyping in invasive crayfish species in Czechia [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2022 The widespread presence of North American alien crayfish in Europe is a major driver of native crayfish population declines, mainly because they are chronic carriers of the oomycete Aphanomyces astaci responsible for crayfish plague.
Michaela Mojžišová +7 more
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Effects of chemical cues and prior experience on predator avoidance in crayfish [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Multisensory stimuli provide organisms with information to assess the threat present in the surroundings. Olfactory cues show dominance over other sensory modalities in the aquatic environment.
Davinder Kaur +4 more
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First Record of the Alien Species Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 in Fresh Waters of Sardinia and Insight into Its Genetic Variability [PDF]
Life, 2021 In the fresh waters of Sardinia (Italy), the non-indigenous crayfish species Procambarus clarkii has been reported from 2005, but, starting from 2019, there have been several reports of a new non-indigenous crayfish in southern and central areas of this ...
Daria Sanna +6 more
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