General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology


Publications
86

Symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes : diversity, patterns and potential as models for bacteria–eukaryote endosymbioses

Citation
Boscaro et al. (2019). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1907)
Names
“Euplotella” “Fujishimia” “Parafinniella” “Anadelfobacter sociabilis” “Bandiella numerosa” “Euplotella sexta” “Finniella dimorpha” “Fujishimia apicalis” “Parafinniella ignota”
Abstract
Endosymbioses between bacteria and eukaryotes are enormously important in ecology and evolution, and as such are intensely studied. Despite this, the range of investigated hosts is narrow in the context of the whole eukaryotic tree of life: most of the information pertains to animal hosts, while most of the diversity is found in unicellular protists. A prominent case study is the ciliate Euplotes , which has repeatedly taken up the bacterium Polyn

Differing responses of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) and white abalone (H. sorenseni) to infection with phage-associated Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis

Citation
Vater et al. (2018). PeerJ 6
Names
Ca. Xenohaliotis californiensis
Abstract
The Rickettsiales-like prokaryote and causative agent of Withering Syndrome (WS)—Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis (Ca. Xc)—decimated black abalone populations along the Pacific coast of North America. White abalone—Haliotis sorenseni—are also susceptible to WS and have become nearly extinct in the wild due to overfishing in the 1970s. Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis proliferates within epithelial cells of the abalone gastrointestinal tract and causes clinical signs of starvation. In

Genetic analysis of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia’ associated with witches’ broom on acid lime trees

Citation
Al-Ghaithi et al. (2018). PeerJ 6
Names
Ca. Phytoplasma aurantifolia
Abstract
“Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia” is associated with witches’ broom disease of lime in Oman and the UAE. A previous study showed that an infection by phytoplasma may not necessarily result in the physical appearance of witches’ broom symptoms in some locations in Oman and the UAE. This study investigated whether phytoplasma strains belonging to “Ca. P. aurantifolia” (based on the 16S rRNA gene analysis) in locations where disease symptoms are expressed are different from phytoplasma in locat