Erich Schwarz

A highly expressed intestinal cysteine protease of Ancylostoma ceylanicum protects vaccinated hamsters from hookworm infection.

Jason B Noon, Erich M Schwarz, Gary R Ostroff, Raffi V Aroian

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BACKGROUND: Human hookworms (Necator americanus, Ancylostoma duodenale, and Ancylostoma ceylanicum) are intestinal blood-feeding p..

Evolution: A Parthenogenetic Nematode Shows How Animals Become Sexless.

Erich M Schwarz

Journal article  |  2017  |  Curr Biol

Most animals have male and female sexes, implying that sex is ancient and beneficial; yet some have survived for millions of years..

cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4-UAS system for Caenorhabditis elegans.

Han Wang, Jonathan Liu, Shahla Gharib, Cynthia M Chai, Erich M Schwarz, Navin Pokala, Paul W Sternberg

Journal article  |  2017  |  Nat Methods

The GAL4-UAS system is a powerful tool for manipulating gene expression, but its application in Caenorhabditis elegans has not bee..

C. elegans Stress-Induced Sleep Emerges from the Collective Action of Multiple Neuropeptides.

Ravi D Nath, Elly S Chow, Han Wang, Erich M Schwarz, Paul W Sternberg

Journal article  |  2016  |  Curr Biol

The genetic basis of sleep regulation remains poorly understood. In C. elegans, cellular stress induces sleep through epidermal gr..

The tubulin repertoire of C. elegans sensory neurons and its context-dependent role in process outgrowth.

Dean Lockhead, Erich M Schwarz, Robert O'Hagan, Sebastian Bellotti, Michael Krieg, Maureen M Barr, Alexander R Dunn, Paul W Sternberg, Miriam B Goodman

Journal article  |  2016  |  Mol Biol Cell

Microtubules contribute to many cellular processes, including transport, signaling, and chromosome separation during cell division..

Transcriptomic Effects of the Cell Cycle Regulator LGO in Arabidopsis Sepals.

Erich M Schwarz, Adrienne HK Roeder

Journal article  |  2016  |  Front Plant Sci

Endoreduplication is a specialized cell cycle in which DNA replication occurs, but mitosis is skipped creating enlarged polyploid ..

Understanding Haemonchus contortus Better Through Genomics and Transcriptomics

RB Gasser, EM Schwarz, PK Korhonen, ND Young

Book Chapter  |  2016  |  Advances in Parasitology

Parasitic roundworms (nematodes) cause substantial mortality and morbidity in animals globally. The barber's pole worm, Haemonchus..

Genome and transcriptome of the porcine whipworm Trichuris suis

Aaron R Jex, Peter Nejsum, Erich M Schwarz, Li Hu, Neil D Young, Ross S Hall, Pasi K Korhonen, Shengguang Liao, Stig Thamsborg, Jinquan Xia, Pengwei Xu, Shaowei Wang, Jean-Pierre Y Scheerlinck, Andreas Hofmann, Paul W Sternberg, Jun Wang, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2014  |  NATURE GENETICS

Trichuris (whipworm) infects 1 billion people worldwide and causes a disease (trichuriasis) that results in major socioeconomic lo..

The genome and developmental transcriptome of the strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus

Erich M Schwarz, Pasi K Korhonen, Bronwyn E Campbell, Neil D Young, Aaron R Jex, Abdul Jabbar, Ross S Hall, Alinda Mondal, Adina C Howe, Jason Pell, Andreas Hofmann, Peter R Boag, Xing-Quan Zhu, T Ryan Gregory, Alex Loukas, Brian A Williams, Igor Antoshechkin, C Titus Brown, Paul W Sternberg, Robin B Gasser

Journal article  |  2013  |  GENOME BIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: The barber's pole worm, Haemonchus contortus, is one of the most economically important parasites of small ruminants w..