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The Discovery, Distribution, and Evolution of Viruses Associated with Drosophila melanogaster

bioRxiv, 2015
Drosophila melanogaster is a valuable invertebrate model for viral infection and antiviral immunity, and is a focus for studies of insect-virus coevolution. Here we use a metagenomic approach to identify more than 20 previously undetected RNA viruses and
Claire L. Webster, Fergal M. Waldron, Shaun Robertson, Daisy Crowson, G. Ferrari, Juan F. Quintana, Jean-Michel Brouqui, E. Bayne, B. Longdon, A. Buck, B. Lazzaro, Jewelna Akorli, P. Haddrill, Darren J Obbard, Harmit S. Malik   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Probiotic‐Based Materials as Living Therapeutics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Recent advances in Engineered Living Materials are highlighted, integrating synthetic biology and advanced materials, with a focus on probiotic‐based therapeutics. Probiotic Living Materials hold great potential for biosensing, infection treatment, osteogenesis, wound healing, vaginal and gastrointestinal disorders, and cancer therapy. breakthroughs in
Laura Sabio, Graham J. Day, Manuel Salmeron‐Sanchez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora symbiotic and axenic nematodes modify the Drosophila melanogaster larval microbiome

Frontiers in Microbiology
The Drosophila melanogaster microbiome is crucial for regulating physiological processes, including immune system development and function. D. melanogaster offers distinct advantages over vertebrate models, allowing a detailed investigation of host ...
Sreeradha Mallick, Christina Pavloudi, Christina Pavloudi, Jimmy Saw, Ioannis Eleftherianos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paternal Grandmother Age Affects the Strength of Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster

mBio, 2019
Wolbachia are obligate intracellular bacteria that are globally distributed in half of all arthropod species. As the most abundant maternally inherited microbe in animals, Wolbachia manipulate host reproduction via reproductive parasitism strategies ...
Emily M. Layton, Jungmin On, Jessamyn I. Perlmutter, Seth R. Bordenstein, J. Dylan Shropshire   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty-seven ZAD-ZNF genes of Drosophila melanogaster are orthologous to the embryo polarity determining mosquito gene cucoid.

PLoS ONE, 2023
The C2H2 zinc finger gene cucoid establishes anterior-posterior (AP) polarity in the early embryo of culicine mosquitoes. This gene is unrelated to genes that establish embryo polarity in other fly species (Diptera), such as the homeobox gene bicoid ...
Muzi Li, Koray Kasan, Zinnia Saha, Yoseop Yoon, Urs Schmidt-Ott   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biological and Biologically Inspired Functional Nanostructures: Insights into Structural, Optical, Thermal, and Sensing Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biological and biologically‐inspired functional nanostructures with structural, thermal, optical, and sensing applications are reviewed. The role of nanoscale features in biological materials on performance is described, and their blueprints are used for bio‐inspired nanomaterials, synthesized using advanced techniques (i.e., photolithography, bio ...
Chao Hsuan (Joseph) Sung, Taige Hao, Herry Fang, Andrew Tran Nguyen, Valentina Perricone, Haitao Yu, Wei Huang, Ezra Sarmiento, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Derek Lublin, Ric Wehling, Sanaz Farajollahi, Atsushi Arakaki, Dhriti Nepal, Nathan Patrick Lord, David Kisailus   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pupal size as a proxy for fat content in laboratory-reared and field-collected Drosophila species

Scientific Reports, 2022
In arthropods, larger individuals tend to have more fat reserves, but data for many taxa are still missing. For the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, only few studies have provided experimental data linking body size to fat content.
Thomas Enriquez, Victoria Lievens, Caroline M. Nieberding, Bertanne Visser   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Large introns in relation to alternative splicing and gene evolution: a case study of Drosophila bruno-3 [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Alternative splicing (AS) of maturing mRNA can generate structurally and functionally distinct transcripts from the same gene. Recent bioinformatic analyses of available genome databases inferred a positive correlation between intron length ...
A Marchler-Bauer, A Mortazavi, A Nekrutenko, A Rambaut, A Resch, AA Patel, AB Carvalho, AE Vinogradov, AG Clark, AM McGuire, AN Ladd, AR Hatton, AS Chang, AV Alekseyenko, AV Philips, B Budagyan, B Modrek, B Modrek, B Prud'homme, BR Graveley, BR Graveley, BR Graveley, C Lee, C Notredame, CI Castillo-Davis, CL Fitzpatrick, CS Thummel, D Babushok, D Baek, D Gatfield, D Monroe, D Ortíz-Barrientos, DA Petrov, DA Petrov, DG Gilbert, DI Nurminsky, DJ Kenan, DL Black, DL Swofford, E Betran, E Kim, E Kim, E Wagner, EA Glazov, F-C Chen, FA Kondrashov, G Ast, G Lev-Maor, G Marais, GD Schuler, H Itoh, IA Swinburne, International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, J Delaunay, J Felsenstein, J Rozas, JM Burnette, JM Comeron, JM Johnson, K Tamura, KL Fox-Walsh, KM Neugebauer, LF Lareau, M Clamp, M Guo, M Labrador, M Lynch, M Roy, M Talerico, MA Noor, MD Adams, MD Adams, MF Wilkinson, Mohamed AF Noor, MT Levine, Nikolai P Kandul, NJ Proudfoot, NM Kopelman, P Haddrill, PA Sharp, PJ Good, PM O'Grady, Q Pan, R Sorek, R Sorek, R Sorek, R Sorek, R Sorek, S Karlin, S Misra, S Richards, S-T Chen, SF Altschul, SM Berget, TE Royce, V Stolc, W Wang, WG Hill, Y Xing, Y Xing, Z Kan   +100 more
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The role of insulin/IGF-1 signaling in the longevity of model invertebrates, C. elegans and D. melanogaster

BMB Reports, 2016
Insulin/insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 signaling (IIS) pathway regulates aging in many organisms, ranging from simple invertebrates to mammals, including humans.
Ozlem Altintas, Sangsoon Park, Seung-Jae V. Lee   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biocatalytic Construction of a Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging Nucleoside Probe: Synthesis and Evaluation of 5‐Methyl‐5,6‐Dihydrothymidine

Advanced Synthesis &Catalysis, EarlyView.
Al‐Hilfi et al. present a biocatalytic strategy for synthesizing 5‐methyl‐5,6‐dihydrothymidine (5‐MDHT), a sensitive MRI contrast agent. The study demonstrates that recombinant enzyme catalysis offers an efficient, sustainable, and eco‐friendly alternative to traditional chemical synthesis for producing clinically relevant imaging probes.
Aimen Al‐Hilfi, E. Alejandro Castellanos Franco, Connor J. Grady, Zinia Mohanta, Michael T. McMahon, Milana Bazayeva, Zhen Li, Kenneth M. Merz Jr., Assaf A. Gilad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source