Robin Gasser

Disseminated protozoal infection in a wild feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) in Australia.

Peter H Holz, Anson V Koehler, Robin B Gasser, Elizabeth Dobson

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

This is the first report of a disseminated protozoal infection in a wild feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) from south-easter..

An Assessment of the Molecular Diversity of Ticks and Tick-Borne Microorganisms of Small Ruminants in Pakistan.

Abdul Ghafar, Adil Khan, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Charles G Gauci, Sadaf Niaz, Sultan Ayaz, Lourdes Mateos-Hernández, Clemence Galon, Nasreen Nasreen, Sara Moutailler, Robin B Gasser, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2020  |  Microorganisms

This study investigated ticks and tick-borne microorganisms of small ruminants from five districts of the Federally Administered T..

Exploring the prevalence and diversity of bovine ticks in five agro-ecological zones of Pakistan using phenetic and genetic tools

Abdul Ghafar, Robin B Gasser, Imran Rashid, Aamir Ghafoor, Abdul Jabbar

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Combined use of feature engineering and machine-learning to predict essential genes in Drosophila melanogaster

Tulio L Campos, Pasi K Korhonen, Andreas Hofmann, Robin B Gasser, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Abstract Characterizing genes that are critical for the survival of an organism (i.e. essential) is important to ga..

Diversity in the intrinsic apoptosis pathway of nematodes

Neil D Young, Tiffany J Harris, Marco Evangelista, Sharon Tran, Merridee A Wouters, Tatiana P Soares da Costa, Nadia J Kershaw, Robin B Gasser, Brian J Smith, Erinna F Lee, W Douglas Fairlie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Communications Biology

Early studies of the free-living nematode C. elegans informed us how BCL-2-regulated apoptosis in humans is regulated. However, su..

The oligomeric assembly of galectin-11 is critical for anti-parasitic activity in sheep (Ovis aries).

Dhanasekaran Sakthivel, Sarah Preston, Robin B Gasser, Tatiana P Soares da Costa, Julia N Hernandez, Adam Shahine, MD Shakif-Azam, Peter Lock, Jamie Rossjohn, Matthew A Perugini, Jorge Francisco González, Els Meeusen, David Piedrafita, Travis Beddoe

Journal article  |  2020  |  Communications Biology

Galectins are a family of glycan-binding molecules with a characteristic affinity for ß-D-glycosides that mediate a variety of imp..

Toward integrative 'omics of the barber's pole worm and related parasitic nematodes.

Guangxu Ma, Robin B Gasser, Tao Wang, Pasi K Korhonen, Neil D Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Advances in nucleic acid sequencing, mass spectrometry and computational biology have facilitated the identification, annotation a..

First record of a tandem-repeat region within the mitochondrial genome ofClonorchis sinensisusing a long-read sequencing approach

Liina Kinkar, Neil D Young, Woon-Mok Sohn, Andreas J Stroehlein, Pasi K Korhonen, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BACKGROUND: Mitochondrial genomes provide useful genetic markers for systematic and population genetic studies of parasitic helmin..

DNA Footprints: Using Parasites to Detect Elusive Animals, Proof of Principle in Hedgehogs

Simon Allen, Carolyn Greig, Ben Rowson, Robin B Gasser, Abdul Jabbar, Simone Morelli, Eric R Morgan, Martyn Wood, Dan Forman

Journal article  |  2020  |  Animals

The Western European Hedgehog (Erinaceous europaeus) is a nocturnal animal that is in decline in much of Europe, but the monitorin..

Marked mitochondrial genetic variation in individuals and populations of the carcinogenic liver flukeClonorchis sinensis

Liina Kinkar, Pasi K Korhonen, Daxi Wang, Xing-Quan Zhu, Galina N Chelomina, Tao Wang, Ross S Hall, Anson Koehler, Ivon Harliwong, Bicheng Yang, J Lynn Fink, Neil D Young, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Clonorchiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by the Chinese liver fluke, Clonorchis sinensis, and is often associated with..