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List of works by Alistair C. Darby

"Bowel on the Bench": Proof of Concept of a Three-Stage, In Vitro Fermentation Model of the Equine Large Intestine

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

10.1023/A:1003942204931

A Tale of Three Species: Adaptation of Sodalis glossinidius to Tsetse Biology, Metabolism, and Host Diet

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

A comprehensive benchmarking study of protocols and sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA community profiling

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

A de novo expression profiling of Anopheles funestus, malaria vector in Africa, using 454 pyrosequencing

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Acetogenesis from H2 plus CO2 and nitrogen fixation by an endosymbiotic spirochete of a termite-gut cellulolytic protist

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Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of closely related wild and captive tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans) populations

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An aphid-borne bacterium allied to the secondary symbionts of whitefly

scientific article published in June 2001

An aphid-borne bacterium allied to the secondary symbionts of whitefly

scientific article published in 2001

Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 known and novel subgenomic mRNAs in cell culture, animal model, and clinical samples using LeTRS, a bioinformatic tool to identify unique sequence identifiers

scientific article published on 01 May 2022

Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis.

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Antioxidants promote establishment of trypanosome infections in tsetse

scientific article published on 19 February 2007

Aphid-symbiotic bacteria cultured in insect cell lines

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Application of next-generation sequencing technologies in virology

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Bacterial sensing underlies artificial sweetener-induced growth of gut Lactobacillus.

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

COPD causation and workplace exposures: an assessment of agreement among expert clinical raters

journal article published in 2013

Challenging the Wigglesworthia, Sodalis, Wolbachia symbiosis dogma in tsetse flies: Spiroplasma is present in both laboratory and natural populations.

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Characterisation of the faecal metabolome and microbiome of Thoroughbred racehorses

scientific article published on 21 July 2014

Characterisation of the genomes of four putative vesiculoviruses: tench rhabdovirus, grass carp rhabdovirus, perch rhabdovirus and eel rhabdovirus European X.

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Characteristics of the genome of Arsenophonus nasoniae, son-killer bacterium of the wasp Nasonia

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Characterization of Circulating Clostridium difficile Strains, Host Response and Intestinal Microbiome in Hospitalized Children With Diarrhea

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Characterization of pneumonia due to Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus in dogs

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Comparative genomics and transduction potential of Enterococcus faecalis temperate bacteriophages

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Comparative genomics of Brachyspira pilosicoli strains: genome rearrangements, reductions and correlation of genetic compliment with phenotypic diversity

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Comparative genomics of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages

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Complete Genome Sequence of Leptospira interrogans Serovar Bratislava, Strain PigK151.

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Complete genome characterization of human noroviruses allows comparison of minor alleles during acute and chronic infections

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Complete genome sequence of Mycoplasma haemofelis, a hemotropic mycoplasma

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Cryptic diversity within the major trypanosomiasis vector Glossina fuscipes revealed by molecular markers

scientific article published on 9 August 2011

DNA extraction and amplicon production strategies deeply inf luence the outcome of gut mycobiome studies

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Dietary supplementation with lactose or artificial sweetener enhances swine gut Lactobacillus population abundance

Divergence of a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during an outbreak of ovine mastitis

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Diversity of bacteria associated with natural aphid populations

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Draft Genome Sequence of Chryseobacterium Strain CBo1 Isolated from Bactrocera oleae

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Draft Genome Sequence of Cytophaga fermentans JCM 21142T, a Facultative Anaerobe Isolated from Marine Mud.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Draft Genome Sequence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia SBo1 Isolated from Bactrocera oleae

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Draft Genome Sequence of the Bactrocera oleae Symbiont "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola"

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Draft Genome of Busseola fusca, the Maize Stalk Borer, a Major Crop Pest in Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Draft genome of the honey bee ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, is shaped by the parasitic life history

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Elucidation of the transmission patterns of an insect-borne bacterium

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Endosymbiont gene functions impaired and rescued by polymerase infidelity at poly(A) tracts.

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Evaluation of Lysis Methods for the Extraction of Bacterial DNA for Analysis of the Vaginal Microbiota

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Exploration of the Fecal Microbiota and Biomarker Discovery in Equine Grass Sickness.

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Extrachromosomal DNA of the symbiont Sodalis glossinidius

scientific article published on July 2005

Factors affecting trypanosome maturation in tsetse flies

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Fast forward genetics

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Functional Genomics of a Symbiotic Community: Shared Traits in the Olive Fruit Fly Gut Microbiota

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species

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Functional genomics of a symbiotic community: shared traits in the olive fruit fly gut microbiota

scholarly article published 28 March 2019

Generation and transmission of interlineage recombinants in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Genome sequence for "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum," a low-pathogenicity hemoplasma species

scientific article published on February 2012

Genome sequence of Candidatus Arsenophonus lipopteni, the exclusive symbiont of a blood sucking fly Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae).

scientific article published on 17 September 2016

Genomes of trombidid mites reveal novel predicted allergens and laterally-transferred genes associated with secondary metabolism

Genomes of trombidid mites reveal novel predicted allergens and laterally-transferred genes associated with secondary metabolism

Genomic analysis of highly virulent Georgia 2007/1 isolate of African swine fever virus.

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High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of the Basidiomycete Yeast Sporisorium graminicola CBS10092, a Producer of Mannosylerythritol Lipids

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Human papillomavirus infection and cervical dysplasia in HIV-positive women: potential role of the vaginal microbiota

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Identification of three novel superantigen-encoding genes in Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus, szeF, szeN, and szeP.

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Impact of maternal antibodies and infant gut microbiota on the immunogenicity of rotavirus vaccines in African, Indian and European infants: protocol for a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Impact of oral metronidazole treatment on the vaginal microbiota and correlates of treatment failure

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

scientific article published in Nature

Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of the global response of Wolbachia to doxycycline-induced stress.

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Intermittent Lactobacilli-containing Vaginal Probiotic or Metronidazole Use to Prevent Bacterial Vaginosis Recurrence: A Pilot Study Incorporating Microscopy and Sequencing

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Intracellular pathogens go extreme: genome evolution in the Rickettsiales

scientific article published on 05 September 2007

Intraguild predators and the spatial distribution of a parasitoid

scientific article published in August 2000

Investigation of the bacterial communities associated with females of Lutzomyia sand fly species from South America

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Iron necessity: the secret of Wolbachia's success?

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Large-scale and significant expression from pseudogenes in Sodalis glossinidius - a facultative bacterial endosymbiont

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Large-scale comparative genomics unravels great genomic diversity across the Rickettsia and Ca . Megaira genera and identifies Torix group as an evolutionarily distinct clade

scientific article published on 6 October 2021

Low calorie sweeteners and gut microbiota

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Molecular characterization of the uncultivatable hemotropic bacterium Mycoplasma haemofelis

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Multi-locus sequence typing of Ixodes ricinus and its symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii across Europe reveals evidence of local co-cladogenesis in Scotland

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Mycoplasma tullyi sp. nov., isolated from penguins of the genus Spheniscus.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Novel host-related virulence factors are encoded by squirrelpox virus, the main causative agent of epidemic disease in red squirrels in the UK.

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Phylogenomics and analysis of shared genes suggest a single transition to mutualism in Wolbachia of nematodes

scientific article published on January 2013

Phylogeny and prevalence of kobuviruses in dogs and cats in the UK

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Recovering individual haplotypes and a contiguous genome assembly from pooled long-read sequencing of the diamondback moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Revised Genome Sequence of the Purple Photosynthetic Bacterium Blastochloris viridis.

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Supergroup C Wolbachia, mutualist symbionts of filarial nematodes, have a distinct genome structure

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Symbiosis Research as a Novel Strategy for Insect Pest Control

scholarly article published 2009

Taking the pseudo out of pseudogenes

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The Hypercomplex Genome of an Insect Reproductive Parasite Highlights the Importance of Lateral Gene Transfer in Symbiont Biology

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

The Orientia tsutsugamushi genome reveals massive proliferation of conjugative type IV secretion system and host-cell interaction genes

scholarly article

The Structure of a Conserved Telomeric Region Associated with Variant Antigen Loci in the Blood Parasite Trypanosoma congolense

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

The Tick Cell Biobank: A global resource for in vitro research on ticks, other arthropods and the pathogens they transmit

scholarly article published by Alistair C. Darby in 2018

The draft genome of strain Cpun from biting midges confirms insect are not a monophyletic group and reveals a novel gene family expansion in a symbiont

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The draft genome of strain cCpun from biting midges establishes Cardinium as a paraphyletic group, and reveals a novel gene family expansion in a symbiont

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The draft genome of strain cCpun from biting midges establishes Cardinium as a paraphyletic group, and reveals a novel gene family expansion in a symbiont

The draft genome sequence of Arsenophonus nasoniae, son-killer bacterium of Nasonia vitripennis, reveals genes associated with virulence and symbiosis

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The effect of gut microbiota elimination in Drosophila melanogaster: A how-to guide for host-microbiota studies.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The evolutionary dynamics of variant antigen genes in Babesia reveal a history of genomic innovation underlying host-parasite interaction

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The genomic and metabolic diversity of Rickettsia

scientific article published on 04 October 2007

The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element

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The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans

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The rapid isolation and growth dynamics of the tsetse symbiont Sodalis glossinidius

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The sequence of a male-specific genome region containing the sex determination switch in Aedes aegypti

scientific article (publication date: 8 April 2017)

The sequence of a male-specific genome region containing the sex determination switch in Aedes aegypti

scientific article published on 20 October 2018

Transcriptome sequencing of human breast cancer reveals aberrant intronic transcription in amplicons and dysregulation of alternative splicing with major therapeutic implications.

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Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

scientific article published on 26 February 2008