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Vet Parasitol ; 177(1-2): 28-32, 2011 Apr 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21146935

RESUMO

The first large-scale urban survey of Giardia infections in dogs was undertaken in the USA. It involved several locations in the Western United States with Giardia isolates from microscopy-positive samples characterised by multi-locus PCR and sequencing. A high prevalence of Giardia was confirmed in asymptomatic domestic dogs, and for the first time, provides evidence that zoonotic assemblages/subgroups of Giardia occur frequently in domestic dogs living in urban environments, and more frequently than the dog specific assemblages.


Assuntos
Doenças do Cão/parasitologia , Giardia/genética , Giardíase/veterinária , Animais , Doenças do Cão/epidemiologia , Cães , Variação Genética , Giardíase/epidemiologia , Giardíase/parasitologia , Humanos , RNA Ribossômico 18S/genética , Estados Unidos/epidemiologia , Zoonoses/parasitologia
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Int J Parasitol ; 41(9): 1001-14, 2011 Aug 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21712043

RESUMO

Knowledge of cattle tick (Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus; Acari: Ixodidae) molecular and cellular pathways has been hampered by the lack of an annotated genome. In addition, most of the tick expressed sequence tags (ESTs) available to date consist of ∼50% unassigned sequences without predicted functions. The most common approach to address this has been the application of RNA interference (RNAi) methods to investigate genes and their pathways. This approach has been widely adopted in tick research despite minimal knowledge of the tick RNAi pathway and double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) uptake mechanisms. A strong knockdown phenotype of adult female ticks had previously been observed using a 594 bp dsRNA targeting the cattle tick homologue for the Drosophila Ubiquitin-63E gene leading to nil or deformed eggs. A NimbleGen cattle tick custom microarray based on the BmiGI.V2 database of R. microplus ESTs was used to evaluate the expression of mRNAs harvested from ticks treated with the tick Ubiquitin-63E 594 bp dsRNA compared with controls. A total of 144 ESTs including TC6372 (Ubiquitin-63E) were down-regulated with 136 ESTs up-regulated following treatment. The results obtained substantiated the knockdown phenotype with ESTs identified as being associated with ubiquitin proteolysis as well as oogenesis, embryogenesis, fatty acid synthesis and stress responses. A bioinformatics analysis was undertaken to predict off-target effects (OTE) resulting from the in silico dicing of the 594 bp Ubiquitin-63E dsRNA which identified 10 down-regulated ESTs (including TC6372) within the list of differentially expressed probes on the microarrays. Subsequent knockdown experiments utilising 196 and 109 bp dsRNAs, and a cocktail of short hairpin RNAs (shRNA) targeting Ubiquitin-63E, demonstrated similar phenotypes for the dsRNAs but nil effect following shRNA treatment. Quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR analysis confirmed differential expression of TC6372 and selected ESTs. Our study demonstrated the minimisation of predicted OTEs in the shorter dsRNA treatments (∼100-200 bp) and the usefulness of microarrays to study knockdown phenotypes.


Assuntos
Doenças dos Bovinos/parasitologia , Expressão Gênica , Interferência de RNA , Rhipicephalus/genética , Infestações por Carrapato/veterinária , Ubiquitina/genética , Animais , Bovinos , Feminino , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes , RNA de Cadeia Dupla/genética , Rhipicephalus/metabolismo , Infestações por Carrapato/parasitologia , Ubiquitina/metabolismo
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Insect Mol Biol ; 15(1): 63-8, 2006 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16469069

RESUMO

The arrangement of genes in the mitochondrial (mt) genomes of most insects is the same, or near-identical, to that inferred to be ancestral for insects. We sequenced the entire mt genome of the small pigeon louse, Campanulotes bidentatus compar, and part of the mt genomes of nine other species of lice. These species were from six families and the three main suborders of the order Phthiraptera. There was no variation in gene arrangement among species within a family but there was much variation in gene arrangement among the three suborders of lice. There has been an extraordinary number of gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genomes of lice!


Assuntos
Rearranjo Gênico , Genes Mitocondriais , Genoma de Inseto , Ftirápteros/genética , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Ordem dos Genes , Dados de Sequência Molecular , RNA de Transferência , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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