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Multiomics Profiling Reveals Signatures of Dysmetabolism in Urban Populations in Central India (2021)
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Monaghan, T. M., Biswas, R. N., Nashine, R. R., Joshi, S. S., Mullish, B. H., Seekatz, A. M., Blanco, J. M., McDonald, J. A. K., Marchesi, J. R., Yau, T. O., Christodoulou, N., Hatziapostolou, M., Pucic-Bakovic, M., Vuckovic, F., Klicek, F., Lauc, G., Xue, N., Dottorini, T., Ambalkar, S., Satav, A., …Kashyap, R. S. (2021). Multiomics Profiling Reveals Signatures of Dysmetabolism in Urban Populations in Central India. Microorganisms, 9(7), Article 1485. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071485

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India. Perturbation of host–microbiome interactions may be a key mechanism by which lifestyle-related risk factors such as tobacco use, alcohol consu... Read More about Multiomics Profiling Reveals Signatures of Dysmetabolism in Urban Populations in Central India.

Genome-Scale Metabolic Models and Machine Learning Reveal Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli and Unravel the Underlying Metabolic Adaptation Mechanisms (2021)
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Pearcy, N., Hu, Y., Baker, M., Maciel-Guerra, A., Xue, N., Wang, W., Kaler, J., Peng, Z., Li, F., & Dottorini, T. (2021). Genome-Scale Metabolic Models and Machine Learning Reveal Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli and Unravel the Underlying Metabolic Adaptation Mechanisms. mSystems, 6(4), Article e00913-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00913-20

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming one of the largest threats to public health worldwide, with the opportunistic pathogen Escherichia coli playing a major role in the AMR global health crisis. Unravelling the complex interplay between drug re... Read More about Genome-Scale Metabolic Models and Machine Learning Reveal Genetic Determinants of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli and Unravel the Underlying Metabolic Adaptation Mechanisms.

Mass spectrometry and machine learning for the accurate diagnosis of benzylpenicillin and multidrug resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in bovine mastitis (2021)
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Esener, N., Guerra, A. M., Giebel, K., Lea, D., Green, M. J., Bradley, A. J., & Dottorini, T. (2021). Mass spectrometry and machine learning for the accurate diagnosis of benzylpenicillin and multidrug resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in bovine mastitis. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(6), Article e1009108. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009108

Staphylococcus aureus is a serious human and animal pathogen threat exhibiting extraordinary capacity for acquiring new antibiotic resistance traits in the pathogen population worldwide.

The development of fast, affordable and effective diagnostic... Read More about Mass spectrometry and machine learning for the accurate diagnosis of benzylpenicillin and multidrug resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in bovine mastitis.

Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Foodborne Pathogen Burkholderia gladioli pv. cocovenenans Harboring a Bongkrekic Acid Biosynthesis Gene Cluster (2021)
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Peng, Z., Dottorini, T., Hu, Y., Li, M., Yan, S., Fanning, S., Baker, M., Xu, J., & Li, F. (2021). Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Foodborne Pathogen Burkholderia gladioli pv. cocovenenans Harboring a Bongkrekic Acid Biosynthesis Gene Cluster. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, Article 628538. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.628538

The environmental bacterium Burkholderia gladioli pv. cocovenenans (B. cocovenenans) has been linked to fatal food poisoning cases in Asia and Africa. Bongkrekic acid (BA), a mitochondrial toxin produced by B. cocovenenans, is thought to be responsib... Read More about Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Foodborne Pathogen Burkholderia gladioli pv. cocovenenans Harboring a Bongkrekic Acid Biosynthesis Gene Cluster.

Ultra-conserved sequences in the genomes of highly diverse Anopheles mosquitoes, with implications for malaria vector control (2021)
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O’Loughlin, S. M., Forster, A. J., Fuchs, S., Dottorini, T., Nolan, T., Crisanti, A., & Burt, A. (2021). Ultra-conserved sequences in the genomes of highly diverse Anopheles mosquitoes, with implications for malaria vector control. G3, 11(6), Article jkab086. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab086

DNA sequences that are exactly conserved over long evolutionary time scales have been observed in a variety of taxa. Such sequences are likely under strong functional constraint and they have been useful in the field of comparative genomics for ident... Read More about Ultra-conserved sequences in the genomes of highly diverse Anopheles mosquitoes, with implications for malaria vector control.

Thapsigargin at non-cytotoxic levels induces a potent host antiviral response that blocks influenza a virus replication (2020)
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Goulding, L. V., Yang, J., Jiang, Z., Zhang, H., Lea, D., Emes, R. D., Dottorini, T., Pu, J., Liu, J., & Chang, K. C. (2020). Thapsigargin at non-cytotoxic levels induces a potent host antiviral response that blocks influenza a virus replication. Viruses, 12(10), Article 1093. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12101093

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Influenza A... Read More about Thapsigargin at non-cytotoxic levels induces a potent host antiviral response that blocks influenza a virus replication.

Interaction of the maturation protein of the bacteriophage MS2 and the sex pilus of the Escherichia coli F plasmid (2020)
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Spankie, T. J., Haywood, A. L., Dottorini, T., Barrow, P. A., & Hirst, J. D. (2020). Interaction of the maturation protein of the bacteriophage MS2 and the sex pilus of the Escherichia coli F plasmid. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 101, Article 107723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2020.107723

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. One promising strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance is to use bacteriophages that attach to the sex pili produced by transmissible antimicrobial resistance (AMR) plasmids, infect AMR bacteria and select for loss of the AMR... Read More about Interaction of the maturation protein of the bacteriophage MS2 and the sex pilus of the Escherichia coli F plasmid.

Automated detection of lameness in sheep using machine learning approaches: novel insights into behavioural differences among lame and non-lame sheep (2020)
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Kaler, J., Mitsch, J., Vázquez-Diosdado, J. A., Bollard, N., Dottorini, T., & Ellis, K. A. (2020). Automated detection of lameness in sheep using machine learning approaches: novel insights into behavioural differences among lame and non-lame sheep. Royal Society Open Science, 7(1), Article 190824. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190824

Lameness in sheep is the biggest cause of concern regarding poor health and welfare among sheep producing countries. Best practice for lameness relies on rapid treatment, yet there are no objective measures of lameness detection. Use of accelerometer... Read More about Automated detection of lameness in sheep using machine learning approaches: novel insights into behavioural differences among lame and non-lame sheep.

Developing and evaluating threshold-based algorithms to detect drinking behavior in dairy cows using reticulorumen temperature (2019)
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Vázquez-Diosdado, J., Miguel-Pacheco, G., Plant, B., Dottorini, T., Green, M., & Kaler, J. (2019). Developing and evaluating threshold-based algorithms to detect drinking behavior in dairy cows using reticulorumen temperature. Journal of Dairy Science, 102(11), 10471-10482. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-16442

© 2019 American Dairy Science Association In this study, we assessed for the first time the use of a reticuloruminal temperature bolus and a thresholding method to detect drinking events and investigated different factors that can affect drinking beh... Read More about Developing and evaluating threshold-based algorithms to detect drinking behavior in dairy cows using reticulorumen temperature.

Evolution of gene expression levels in the male reproductive organs of Anopheles mosquitoes (2019)
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Izquierdo, A., Fahrenberger, M., Persampieri, T., Benedict, M. Q., Giles, T., Catteruccia, F., Emes, R. D., & Dottorini, T. (2019). Evolution of gene expression levels in the male reproductive organs of Anopheles mosquitoes. Life Science Alliance, 2(1), Article e00191. https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.201800191

Modifications in gene expression determine many of the phenotypic differentiations between closely related species. This is particularly evident in reproductive tissues, where evolution of genes is more rapid, facilitating the appearance of distinct... Read More about Evolution of gene expression levels in the male reproductive organs of Anopheles mosquitoes.