• Evolutionary analysis of cellular reduction and anaerobicity in the hyper-prevalent gut microbe Blastocystis 

      Záhonová, Kristína; Low, Ross S.; Warren, Christopher J.; Cantoni, Diego; Herman, Emily K.; Yiangou, Lyto; Ribeiro, Cláudia A.; Phanprasert, Yasinee; Brown, Ian R.; Rueckert, Sonja; Baker, Nicola L.; Tachezy, Jan; Betts, Emma L.; Gentekaki, Eleni; van der Giezen, Mark; Clark, C. Graham; Jackson, Andrew P.; Dacks, Joel B.; Tsaousis, Anastasios D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Blastocystis is the most prevalent microbial eukaryote in the human and animal gut, yet its role as commensal or parasite is still under debate. Blastocystis has clearly undergone evolutionary adaptation to the gut environment ...
    • Genomics and transcriptomics yields a system-level view of the biology of the pathogen Naegleria fowleri 

      Herman, Emily K.; Greninger, Alex; van der Giezen, Mark; Ginger, Michael L.; Ramirez-Macias, Inmaculada; Miller, Haylea C.; Morgan, Matthew J.; Tsaousis, Anastasios D.; Velle, Katrina; Vargova, Romana; Zahonova, Kristina; Najle, Sebastian Rodrigo; MacIntyre, Georgina; Muller, Norbert; Wittwer, Mattias; Zysset-Burri, Denise C.; Elias, Marek; Slamovits, Claudio H.; Weirauch, Matthew T.; Fritz-Laylin, Lilian; Marciano-Cabral, Francine; Puzon, Geoffrey J.; Walsh, Tom; Chiu, Charles; Dacks, Joel B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background The opportunistic pathogen Naegleria fowleri establishes infection in the human brain, killing almost invariably within 2 weeks. The amoeba performs piece-meal ingestion, or trogocytosis, of brain material ...