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.
Entries from September 2007
Evolution of aflatoxin gene cluster
Posted on September 29th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
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.
Categories: PKS · aflatoxin · aspergillus · bioinformatics · comparative · gene cluster · human pathogen · molecular evolution · secondary metabolite
New machines
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
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 automatic.
Categories: news
Neurospora alternative splicing
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
A quick link to a Neurospora paper in Genetics today entitled "Alternative Splicing Gives Rise to Different Isoforms of the Neurospora crassa Tob55 Protein That Vary in Their Ability to Insert Beta-Barrel Proteins Into the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane". The authors investigated alternative splicing of a gene found in the TOB complex on the outside of the mitochondria.
Categories: alternative splicing · mRNA splicing · neurospora
Gene knockouts in Candida parapsilosis
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
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.
Categories: candida · functional · gene function · gene knockout · human pathogen · pathogens
Fusarium graminearum genome published
Posted on September 8th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
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.
Categories: RIP · filamentous · fusarium · genome · genome annotation · genome sequencing · plant pathogen
Tracking honeybee decline
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 3 Comments
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.
Categories: honeybee · metagenomics · virus