Project description:New Caledonia’s enigmatic terrestrial diving beetle Typhlodessus monteithi is a highly derived species of Australian Paroster revealed by whole genome sequencing
Project description:In the present study, we investigated the pathogenicity of infection with Malassezia furfur using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model animal. The lifespan of the adult C. elegans infeted with Malassezia furfur was significantly longer than that of uninfected animals (control). Transcriptional profiling comparing infected- and uninfected animals suggested that genes related to the innate immunity were upregulated by infection with Malassezia furfur.
Project description:In this work, we have used deep sequencing to study the viral small RNA (vsiRNA) populations from different mycoviruses infecting field isolates of Botrytis spp. The mycoviruses under study belong to different genera and species and have different type of genome (dsRNA, (+)ssRNA, and (-)ssRNA). In general, vsiRNAs derived from mycoviruses are mostly of 21, 20 and 22 nucleotides in length, possess sense or antisense orientation either in a similar ratio or with a predominance of sense polarity depending on the virus species, have predominantly U at their 5' end, and are unevenly distributed along the viral genome showing conspicuous hotspots of vsiRNA accumulation. These characteristics reveal striking concomitances with vsiRNAs produced by plant viruses suggesting similar pathways of viral targeting in plants and fungi
