Assembly of the genome of the disease vector Aedes aegypti onto a genetic linkage map allows mapping of genes affecting disease transmission.

by Punita Juneja, Jewelna Osei-Poku, Yung S Ho, Cristina V Ariani, William J Palmer, Arnab Pain, Francis M Jiggins
Published 2014-01-01

The effect of the coccinellid Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on transmission of the fungal pathogen Pandora neoaphidis (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae)

by Patricia M. WELLS, Jason BAVERSTOCK, Michael E.N. MAJERUS, Francis M. JIGGINS, Helen E. ROY, Judith K. PELL
Published 2011-01-01

Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila

by Alexandre B Leitão, Ramesh Arunkumar, Jonathan P Day, Emma M Geldman, Ismaël Morin-Poulard, Michèle Crozatier, Francis M Jiggins
Published 2020-12-01

Symbionts commonly provide broad spectrum resistance to viruses in insects: a comparative analysis of Wolbachia strains.

by Julien Martinez, Ben Longdon, Simone Bauer, Yuk-Sang Chan, Wolfgang J Miller, Kostas Bourtzis, Luis Teixeira, Francis M Jiggins
Published 2014-09-01

Population genomics of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster.

by Mark F Richardson, Lucy A Weinert, John J Welch, Raquel S Linheiro, Michael M Magwire, Francis M Jiggins, Casey M Bergman
Published 2012-01-01

The causes and consequences of changes in virulence following pathogen host shifts.

by Ben Longdon, Jarrod D Hadfield, Jonathan P Day, Sophia C L Smith, John E McGonigle, Rodrigo Cogni, Chuan Cao, Francis M Jiggins
Published 2015-03-01

The intracellular bacterium Wolbachia uses parasitoid wasps as phoretic vectors for efficient horizontal transmission.

by Muhammad Z Ahmed, Shao-Jian Li, Xia Xue, Xiang-Jie Yin, Shun-Xiang Ren, Francis M Jiggins, Jaco M Greeff, Bao-Li Qiu
Published 2015-02-01

Host shifts result in parallel genetic changes when viruses evolve in closely related species.

by Ben Longdon, Jonathan P Day, Joel M Alves, Sophia C L Smith, Thomas M Houslay, John E McGonigle, Lucia Tagliaferri, Francis M Jiggins
Published 2018-04-01

------Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods.

by Samuel H Lewis, Laura Ross, Stevie A Bain, Eleni Pahita, Stephen A Smith, Richard Cordaux, Eric A Miska, Boris Lenhard, Francis M Jiggins, Peter Sarkies
Published 2020-06-01

The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont.

by Jessamyn I Perlmutter, Sarah R Bordenstein, Robert L Unckless, Daniel P LePage, Jason A Metcalf, Tom Hill, Julien Martinez, Francis M Jiggins, Seth R Bordenstein
Published 2019-09-01

Wolbachia Blocks Viral Genome Replication Early in Infection without a Transcriptional Response by the Endosymbiont or Host Small RNA Pathways.

by Stephanie M Rainey, Julien Martinez, Melanie McFarlane, Punita Juneja, Peter Sarkies, Aleksei Lulla, Esther Schnettler, Margus Varjak, Andres Merits, Eric A Miska, Francis M Jiggins, Alain Kohl
Published 2016-04-01

Host-pathogen coevolution increases genetic variation in susceptibility to infection

by Elizabeth ML Duxbury, Jonathan P Day, Davide Maria Vespasiani, Yannik Thüringer, Ignacio Tolosana, Sophia CL Smith, Lucia Tagliaferri, Altug Kamacioglu, Imogen Lindsley, Luca Love, Robert L Unckless, Francis M Jiggins, Ben Longdon
Published 2019-04-01

The first myriapod genome sequence reveals conservative arthropod gene content and genome organisation in the centipede Strigamia maritima.

by Ariel D Chipman, David E K Ferrier, Carlo Brena, Jiaxin Qu, Daniel S T Hughes, Reinhard Schröder, Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Nadia Znassi, Huaiyang Jiang, Francisca C Almeida, Claudio R Alonso, Zivkos Apostolou, Peshtewani Aqrawi, Wallace Arthur, Jennifer C J Barna, Kerstin P Blankenburg, Daniela Brites, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Marcus Coyle, Peter K Dearden, Louis Du Pasquier, Elizabeth J Duncan, Dieter Ebert, Cornelius Eibner, Galina Erikson, Peter D Evans, Cassandra G Extavour, Liezl Francisco, Toni Gabaldón, William J Gillis, Elizabeth A Goodwin-Horn, Jack E Green, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Cornelis J P Grimmelikhuijzen, Sai Gubbala, Roderic Guigó, Yi Han, Frank Hauser, Paul Havlak, Luke Hayden, Sophie Helbing, Michael Holder, Jerome H L Hui, Julia P Hunn, Vera S Hunnekuhl, LaRonda Jackson, Mehwish Javaid, Shalini N Jhangiani, Francis M Jiggins, Tamsin E Jones, Tobias S Kaiser, Divya Kalra, Nathan J Kenny, Viktoriya Korchina, Christie L Kovar, F Bernhard Kraus, François Lapraz, Sandra L Lee, Jie Lv, Christigale Mandapat, Gerard Manning, Marco Mariotti, Robert Mata, Tittu Mathew, Tobias Neumann, Irene Newsham, Dinh N Ngo, Maria Ninova, Geoffrey Okwuonu, Fiona Ongeri, William J Palmer, Shobha Patil, Pedro Patraquim, Christopher Pham, Ling-Ling Pu, Nicholas H Putman, Catherine Rabouille, Olivia Mendivil Ramos, Adelaide C Rhodes, Helen E Robertson, Hugh M Robertson, Matthew Ronshaugen, Julio Rozas, Nehad Saada, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Steven E Scherer, Andrew M Schurko, Kenneth W Siggens, DeNard Simmons, Anna Stief, Eckart Stolle, Maximilian J Telford, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Rebecca Thornton, Maurijn van der Zee, Arndt von Haeseler, James M Williams, Judith H Willis, Yuanqing Wu, Xiaoyan Zou, Daniel Lawson, Donna M Muzny, Kim C Worley, Richard A Gibbs, Michael Akam, Stephen Richards
Published 2014-11-01