Wigglesworthia genomics

Tsetse Flies Rely on Symbiotic Wigglesworthia for Immune System Development

When we even bother to think about them, we usually regard the bacteria and other microbes that live in our guts and on our skin with disgust. However, recent discoveries about the roles the trillions of microbes living in the average person’s gut play in obesity, cardiovascular disease, and immunity have led us to look upon our omnipresent bacterial symbionts with a less jaundiced eye. Mutuall...

Nutrient provisioning facilitates homeostasis between tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae) symbionts.

Host-associated microbial interactions may involve genome complementation, driving-enhanced communal efficiency and stability. The tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae), the obligate vector of African trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei subspp.), harbours two enteric Gammaproteobacteria symbionts: Wigglesworthia glossinidia and Sodalis glossinidius. Host coevolution has streamlined the Wigglesworthia ...

Genomics update Wine Genomics

Comparative genomics of human stem cell factor (SCF)

Stem cell factor (SCF) is a critical protein with key roles in the cell such as hematopoiesis, gametogenesis and melanogenesis. In the present study a comparative analysis on nucleotide sequences of SCF was performed in Humanoids using bioinformatics tools including NCBI-BLAST, MEGA6, and JBrowse. Our analysis of nucleotide sequences to find closely evolved organisms with high similarity by NCB...

Bioinformatics Genomics and post - genomics