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A Case for Using Genomics and a Bioinformatics Pipeline to Develop Sensitive and Species-Specific PCR-Based Diagnostics for Soil-Transmitted Helminths

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

A comparative analysis of preservation techniques for the optimal molecular detection of hookworm DNA in a human fecal specimen.

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

A description of a new "Amoebozoan" isolated from the American lobster, Homarus americanus

scientific article published in January 2010

A multigene analysis of Corallomyxa tenera sp. nov. suggests its membership in a clade that includes Gromia, Haplosporidia and Foraminifera

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A novel, species-specific, real-time PCR assay for the detection of the emerging zoonotic parasite Ancylostoma ceylanicum in human stool.

scientific article published on 10 July 2017

Are microbes fundamentally different than macroorganisms? Convergence and a possible case for neutral phenotypic evolution in testate amoeba (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida)

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Assessing the effects of a sequestered germline on interdomain lateral gene transfer in Metazoa

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Broadly sampled multigene analyses yield a well-resolved eukaryotic tree of life

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Broadly sampled multigene trees of eukaryotes

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Building a phylogenomic pipeline for the eukaryotic tree of life - addressing deep phylogenies with genome-scale data

scientific article published on 02 April 2014

Comparison of multi-parallel qPCR and double-slide Kato-Katz for detection of soil-transmitted helminth infection among children in rural Bangladesh

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Comprehensive phylogenetic reconstruction of amoebozoa based on concatenated analyses of SSU-rDNA and actin genes

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Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the eukaryotic tree of life

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Improved PCR-Based Detection of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infections Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Approach to Assay Design.

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Molecular detection of intestinal helminths and protozoa among young children in Dosso Region, Niger

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Multigene evidence for the placement of a heterotrophic amoeboid lineage Leukarachnion sp. among photosynthetic stramenopiles

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Multigene phylogenetic reconstruction of the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa) corroborates four of the six major lineages, while additionally revealing that shell composition does not predict phylogeny in the Arcellinida

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Phylogenetic placement of diverse amoebae inferred from multigene analyses and assessment of clade stability within 'Amoebozoa' upon removal of varying rate classes of SSU-rDNA.

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Phylogenomic study indicates widespread lateral gene transfer in Entamoeba and suggests a past intimate relationship with parabasalids.

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Rectal Swabs as an Alternative Sample Collection Method to Bulk Stool for the Real-Time PCR Detection of Giardia duodenalis

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Sapocribrum chincoteaguense n. gen. n. sp.: A Small, Scale-bearing Amoebozoan with Flabellinid Affinities.

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Selection and exploitation of prevalent, tandemly repeated genomic targets for improved real-time PCR-based detection of Wuchereria bancrofti and Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoes

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Subulatomonas tetraspora nov. gen. nov. sp. is a Member of a Previously Unrecognized Major Clade of Eukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Taxon-rich phylogenomic analyses resolve the eukaryotic tree of life and reveal the power of subsampling by sites

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Turning the crown upside down: gene tree parsimony roots the eukaryotic tree of life.

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