Project description:Metabarcoding Characterization of Gastrointestinal Strongyle Nematodes in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) and White Rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) in a Private Zoo, Thailand
Project description:Pythiosis, whose etiological agent is the oomycete Pythium insidiosum, is a life-
threatening disease that occurs mainly in tropical and subtropical countries,
affecting several animal species, being more frequent in horses in Brazil and
humans in Thailand. We investigated which P. insidiosum antigens may be recognized by horses and humans with pythiosis from Brazil and Thailand, respectively.
Project description:In order to study the similarities and differences in embryonic development between plant-parasitic nematodes and free-living nematodes, we performed RNA-seq on embryos of three plant-parasitic nematodes at a total of 11 stages from the single-cell stage to the J1 stage