By Jason Stajich, on September 29th, 2007
Ignazio Carbone and colleagues published a recent analysis of the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster in five Aspergillus fungi entitled “Gene duplication, modularity and adaptation in the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster” in BMC Evolutionary Biology. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 26th, 2007
If all went well you didn’t even notice… We migrated wiki and blog to new web server in Berkeley out of its kind hosting at OBF servers in Boston area. We’ve started the process of rebuilding the genome browser data similar to what was deployed at fungal.genome.duke.edu server, but we are redeveloping the data dumping and importing scripts to be more [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 21st, 2007
By Jason Stajich, on September 18th, 2007
A recent paper “Targeted gene deletion in Candida parapsilosis demonstrates the role of secreted lipase in virulence”, from the Nosanchuk lab at Yeshiva University, shows the role of secreted lipases in virulence of this pathogen. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 8th, 2007
The genome of the wheat and cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum was published in Science this week in an article entitled “The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specializationtion”. The project was a collaboration of many different Fusarium research groups. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 6th, 2007
An early access to article in Science A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (direct link since DOI is not updated yet) using the current favorite buzzword, metagenomics, of course, describes some early work to try and discover what is killing the honeybees. [...]