The first genomic view of beetle luciferase evolution indicates evolutionary independence of luciferase between fireflies and click-beetles, and provide valuable datasets which will accelerate the discovery of new biotechnological tools.
Malaria parasites avoid destruction by their host's immune response through systematic and coordinated expression switching between members of a network of variant antigen-encoding genes, a process that is mediated by a uniquely conserved gene called var2csa.
Mukulika Ray, Ashley Mae Conard ... Erica Larschan
Combining computational and experimental approaches reveals that the loss of a maternal transcription factor influences sex-biased differential splicing in the early zygotic transcriptome at genes that are critical for normal developmental processes.
Junhao Li, Antonio Pinto-Duarte ... M Margarita Behrens
Loss of Dnmt3a in excitatory neurons disrupts synaptic morphology and behavior, and triggers the expansion of H3K27me3 binding, suggestive of increased polycomb repression.
Edward JA Douglas, Nathanael Palk ... Ruth C Massey
The transition of Staphylococcus aureus from commensalism to invasive disease, bacteraemia, is a complex balancing act offsetting offensive and defensive virulence strategies involving the Tca cell wall stress stimulon locus.
Many well-studied maternal developmental pathways that are required for embryonic development in Drosophila are regulated by the transcription factor OVO in the Drosophila female germline.
Spenser S Smith, Daniel Chu ... Richard A Schneider
Multiple levels of gene regulation in the TGFβ signaling pathway mediate the expression of Mmp13, establish species-specific domains of bone resorption, and likely generate evolutionary variation in jaw length.
Ricardo Omar Ramirez Flores, Jan David Lanzer ... Julio Saez-Rodriguez
A computational framework allows the unsupervised analysis of samples from single cell data across conditions, inference of multicellular programs associated with disease, and meta-analysis of independent patient cohorts.