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Maizels, R. M. (2020) Regulation of immunity and allergy by helminth parasites. Allergy, 75(3), pp. 524-534. (doi: 10.1111/all.13944) (PMID:31187881)

Periz, J., Del Rosario, M., McStea, A., Gras, S., Loney, C. , Wang, L., Martin-Fernandez, M. L. and Meissner, M. (2019) A highly dynamic F-actin network regulates transport and recycling of micronemes in Toxoplasma gondii vacuoles. Nature Communications, 10, 4183. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12136-2) (PMID:31519913) (PMCID:PMC6744512)

Alam, M. M. et al. (2019) Validation of the protein kinase PfCLK3 as a multistage cross-species malarial drug target. Science, 365(6456), eaau1682. (doi: 10.1126/science.aau1682) (PMID:31467193)

Nenarokova, A., Záhonová, K., Krasilnikova, M., Gahura, O., McCulloch, R. , Zíková, A., Yurchenko, V. and Lukeš, J. (2019) Causes and effects of loss of classical non-homologous end joining pathway in parasitic eukaryotes. mBio, 10(4), e01541-9. (doi: 10.1128/mBio.01541-19) (PMID:31311886) (PMCID:PMC6635534)

Ngotho, P., Blancke Soares, A., Hentzschel, F., Achcar, F. , Bertuccini, L. and Marti, M. (2019) Revisiting gametocyte biology in malaria parasites. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 43(4), pp. 401-414. (doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuz010) (PMID:31220244) (PMCID:PMC6606849)

Dantzler, K. W. et al. (2019) Naturally acquired immunity against immature Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes. Science Translational Medicine, 11(495), eaav3963. (doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aav3963) (PMID:31167926) (PMCID:PMC6653583)

Johnston, K., Kim, D.-H., Kerkhoven, E. J., Burchmore, R. , Barrett, M. P. and Achcar, F. (2019) Mapping the metabolism of five amino acids in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei using U-13C-labelled substrates and LC-MS. Bioscience Reports, 39(5), BSR2018160. (doi: 10.1042/BSR20181601) (PMID:31028136) (PMCID:PMC6522824)

Cerone, M. et al. (2019) Discovery of sustainable drugs for neglected tropical diseases: cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL)-based hybrids target mitochondrial function and ATP production in Trypanosoma brucei. ChemMedChem, 14(6), pp. 621-635. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201800790) (PMID:30664325) (PMCID:PMC6686156)

Pountain, A. W. , Weidt, S. K., Regnault, C., Bates, P. A., Donachie, A. M., Dickens, N. J. and Barrett, M. P. (2019) Genomic instability at the locus of sterol C24-methyltransferase promotes amphotericin B resistance in Leishmania parasites. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(2), e0007052. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007052) (PMID:30716073) (PMCID:PMC6375703)

Alfituri, O. A., Ajibola, O., Brewer, J. M. , Garside, P. , Benson, R. A. , Peel, T., Morrison, L. J. and Mabbott, N. A. (2019) Effects of host-derived chemokines on the motility and viability of Trypanosoma brucei. Parasite Immunology, 41(2), e12609. (doi: 10.1111/pim.12609) (PMID:30525202) (PMCID:PMC6767366)

International Helminth Genomes Consortium, et al. (2019) Comparative genomics of the major parasitic worms. Nature Genetics, 51(1), pp. 163-174. (doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0262-1) (PMID:30397333) (PMCID:PMC6349046)

Vieira Da Rocha, J.P., Passos-Silva, D.G., Mendes, I.C., Rocha, E.A., Gomes, D.A., Machado, C.R. and McCulloch, R. (2019) The DNA damage response is developmentally regulated in the African trypanosome. DNA Repair, 73, pp. 78-90. (doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.11.005) (PMID:30470509) (PMCID:PMC6329875)

Stortz, J. F., Del Rosario, M., Singer, M., Wilkes, J. M. , Meissner, M. and Das, S. (2019) Formin-2 drives polymerisation of actin filaments enabling segregation of apicoplasts and cytokinesis in Plasmodium falciparum. eLife, 8, e49030. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.49030) (PMID:31322501)

Briggs, E., Hamilton, G., Crouch, K. , Lapsley, C. and McCulloch, R. (2018) Genome-wide mapping reveals conserved and diverged R-loop activities in the unusual genetic landscape of the African trypanosome genome. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(22), pp. 11789-11805. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gky928) (PMID:30304482) (PMCID:PMC6294496)

Damasceno, J. D., Obonaga, R., Silva, G. L.A., Reis-Cunha, J. L., Duncan, S. M., Bartholomeu, D. C., Mottram, J. C. , McCulloch, R. and Tosi, L. R.O. (2018) Conditional genome engineering reveals canonical and divergent roles for the Hus1 component of the 9-1-1 complex in the maintenance of the plastic genome of Leishmania. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(22), pp. 11835-11846. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1017) (PMID:30380080) (PMCID:PMC6294564)

Briggs, E., Crouch, K. , Lemgruber, L. , Lapsley, C. and McCulloch, R. (2018) Ribonuclease H1-targeted R-loops in surface antigen gene expression sites can direct trypanosome immune evasion. PLoS Genetics, 14(12), e1007729. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007729) (PMID:30543624) (PMCID:PMC6292569)

Robertson, E., Harcus, Y., Johnston, C. J.C., Page, A. P. , Walkinshaw, M. D., Maizels, R. M. and Houston, D. (2018) Demonstration of the anthelmintic potency of marimastat in the Heligmosomoides polygyrus rodent model. Journal of Parasitology, 104(6), pp. 705-709. (doi: 10.1645/18-33) (PMID:30085900)

Santos da Silva, M., Hovel-Miner, G. A., Briggs, E. M., Elias, M. C. and McCulloch, R. (2018) Evaluation of mechanisms that may generate DNA lesions triggering antigenic variation in African trypanosomes. PLoS Pathogens, 14(11), e1007321. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007321) (PMID:30440029) (PMCID:PMC6237402)

Kent, R. S., Modrzynska, K. K. , Cameron, R., Philip, N., Billker, O. and Waters, A. P. (2018) Inducible developmental reprogramming redefines commitment to sexual development by malaria parasites. Nature Microbiology, 3(11), pp. 1206-1213. (doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0223-6) (PMID:30177743) (PMCID:PMC6317699)

Maizels, R. , Smits, H. H. and McSorley, H. J. (2018) Modulation of host immunity by helminths: the expanding repertoire of parasite effector molecules. Immunity, 49(5), pp. 801-818. (doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.10.016) (PMID:30462997) (PMCID:PMC6269126)

Brancucci, N. M.B. , De Niz, M., Straub, T. J., Ravel, D., Sollelis, L., Birren, B. W., Voss, T. S., Neafsey, D. E. and Marti, M. (2018) Probing Plasmodium falciparum sexual commitment at the single-cell level. Wellcome Open Research, 3, 70. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14645.4) (PMID:30320226) (PMCID:PMC6143928)

Trindade, J. B. C. et al. (2018) A Leishmania infantum genetic marker associated with miltefosine treatment failure for visceral leishmaniasis. EBioMedicine, 36, pp. 83-91. (doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.09.029) (PMID:30268832) (PMCID:PMC6197651)

Begolo, D. et al. (2018) The trypanocidal benzoxaborole AN7973 inhibits trypanosome mRNA processing. PLoS Pathogens, 14(9), e1007315. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007315) (PMID:30252911) (PMCID:PMC6173450)

De Niz, M. et al. (2018) Plasmodium gametocytes display homing and vascular transmigration in the host bone marrow. Science Advances, 4(5), eaat3775. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat3775) (PMID:29806032) (PMCID:PMC5966192)

Steketee, P. C. et al. (2018) Benzoxaborole treatment perturbs S-adenosyl-L-methionine metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12(5), e0006450. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006450) (PMID:29758036) (PMCID:PMC5976210)

Obaldia III, N. et al. (2018) Bone marrow is a major parasite reservoir in Plasmodium vivax infection. mBio, 9(3), e00625-18. (doi: 10.1128/mBio.00625-18) (PMID:29739900)

Armitage, E. G. et al. (2018) Complex interplay between sphingolipid and sterol metabolism revealed by perturbations to the Leishmania metabolome caused by miltefosine. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 62(5), e02095-17. (doi: 10.1128/AAC.02095-17) (PMID:29463533)

Nagy, B., Al-Rawhani, M. A., Cheah, B. C., Barrett, M. P. and Cumming, D. R.S. (2018) Immunoassay multiplexing on a complementary metal oxide semiconductor photodiode array. ACS Sensors, 3(5), pp. 953-959. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00972) (PMID:29652490) (PMCID:PMC5974700)

Armitage, E. G. et al. (2018) Metabolic clustering analysis as a strategy for compound selection in the drug discovery pipeline for leishmaniasis. ACS Chemical Biology, 13(5), pp. 1361-1369. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00204) (PMID:29671577)

Lee, R. S., Waters, A. P. and Brewer, J. M. (2018) A cryptic cycle in haematopoietic niches promotes initiation of malaria transmission and evasion of chemotherapy. Nature Communications, 9, 1689. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04108-9) (PMID:29703959) (PMCID:PMC5924373)

Smyth, D. J. et al. (2018) TGF-β mimic proteins form an extended gene family in the murine parasite Heligmosomoides polygyrus. International Journal for Parasitology, 48(5), pp. 379-385. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.12.004) (PMID:29510118) (PMCID:PMC5904571)

Darwiche, R., Lugo, F., Drurey, C. , Varossieau, K., Smant, G., Wilbers, R. H.P., Maizels, R. M. , Schneiter, R. and Asojo, O. A. (2018) Crystal structure of Brugia malayi venom allergen-like protein-1 (BmVAL-1), a vaccine candidate for lymphatic filariasis. International Journal for Parasitology, 48(5), pp. 371-378. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.12.003) (PMID:29501266)

Asojo, O. A., Darwiche, R., Gebremedhin, S., Smant, G., Lozano-Torres, J. L., Drurey, C. , Pollet, J., Maizels, R. M. , Schneiter, R. and Wilbers, R. H.P. (2018) Heligmosomoides polygyrus venom allergen-like protein-4 (HpVAL-4) is a sterol binding protein. International Journal for Parasitology, 48(5), pp. 359-369. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2018.01.002) (PMID:29505764) (PMCID:PMC5893428)

Kovarova, J., Pountain, A. W. , Wildridge, D., Weidt, S., Bringaud, F., Burchmore, R. J.S. , Achcar, F. and Barrett, M. P. (2018) Deletion of transketolase triggers a stringent metabolic response in promastigotes and loss of virulence in amastigotes of Leishmania mexicana. PLoS Pathogens, 14(3), e1006953. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006953) (PMID:29554142) (PMCID:PMC5882173)

Marques, C. A. and McCulloch, R. (2018) Conservation and variation in strategies for DNA replication of kinetoplastid nuclear genomes. Current Genomics, 19(2), pp. 98-109. (doi: 10.2174/1389202918666170815144627) (PMID:29491738) (PMCID:PMC5814967)

Goundry, A., Romano, A., Lima, A. P. C.A., Mottram, J. and Myburgh, E. (2018) Inhibitor of serine peptidase 2 enhances Leishmania major survival in the skin through control of monocytes and monocyte-derived cells. FASEB Journal, 32(3), pp. 1315-1327. (doi: 10.1096/fj.201700797R) (PMID:29097502) (PMCID:PMC5892728)

Wandy, J. , Zhu, Y., van der Hooft, J. J.J. , Daly, R. , Barrett, M. P. and Rogers, S. (2018) Ms2lda.org: web-based topic modelling for substructure discovery in mass spectrometry. Bioinformatics, 34(2), pp. 317-318. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx582) (PMID:28968802) (PMCID:PMC5860206)

Ma, G., Holland, C. V., Wang, T., Hofmann, A., Fan, C.-K., Maizels, R. M. , Hotez, P. J. and Gasser, R. B. (2018) Human toxocariasis. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18(1), e14-e24. (doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30331-6) (PMID:28781085)

Ponte-Sucre, A., Gamarro, F., Dujardin, J.-C., Barrett, M. P. , López-Vélez, R., García-Hernández, R., Pountain, A. W. and Mwenechanya, R. (2017) Drug resistance and treatment failure in leishmaniasis: A 21st century challenge. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(12), e0006052. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006052) (PMID:29240765) (PMCID:PMC5730103)

Barrett, M. P. , Cooper, J. M. , Regnault, C., Holm, S. H., Beech, J. P., Tegenfeldt, J. O. and Hochstetter, A. (2017) Microfluidics-based approaches to the isolation of African trypanosomes. Pathogens, 6(4), 47. (doi: 10.3390/pathogens6040047) (PMID:28981471) (PMCID:PMC5750571)

Johnston, C. J.C. et al. (2017) A structurally distinct TGF-β mimic from an intestinal helminth parasite potently induces regulatory T cells. Nature Communications, 8, 1741. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01886-6) (PMID:29170498) (PMCID:PMC5701006)

da Silva, M. S., Pavani, R. S., Damasceno, J. D., Marques, C. A. , McCulloch, R. , Tosi, L. R. O. and Elias, M. C. (2017) Nuclear DNA replication in trypanosomatids: there are no easy methods for solving difficult problems. Trends in Parasitology, 33(11), pp. 858-874. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2017.08.002) (PMID:28844718) (PMCID:PMC5662062)

Osbourn, M. et al. (2017) HpARI protein secreted by a helminth parasite suppresses interleukin-33. Immunity, 47(4), 739-751.e5. (doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.09.015) (PMID:29045903) (PMCID:PMC5655542)

Barrett, M. P. and Giordani, F. (2017) Inside Doctor Livingstone: a Scottish icon's encounter with tropical disease. Parasitology, 144(12), pp. 1652-1662. (doi: 10.1017/S003118201600202X) (PMID:27928980)

Millan, C. R., Acosta-Reyes, F. J., Lagartera, L., Ebiloma, G. U., Lemgruber Soares, L. , Nué Martinez, J. J., Saperas, N., Dardonville, C., De Koning, H. P. and Campos, J. L. (2017) Functional and structural analysis of AT-specific minor groove binders that disrupt DNA-protein interactions and cause disintegration of the Trypanosoma brucei kinetoplast. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(14), pp. 8378-8391. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx521) (PMID:28637278) (PMCID:PMC5737332)

Coles, J. A., Stewart-Hutchinson, P. J., Myburgh, E. and Brewer, J. M. (2017) The mouse cortical meninges are the site of immune responses to many different pathogens, and are accessible to intravital imaging. Methods, 127, pp. 53-61. (doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2017.03.020) (PMID:28351758) (PMCID:PMC5595162)

Alzahrani, K. J.H., Ali, J. A.M., Eze, A. A., Looi, W. L., Tagoe, D. N.A., Creek, D. J., Barrett, M. P. and De Koning, H. P. (2017) Functional and genetic evidence that nucleoside transport is highly conserved in Leishmania species: Implications for pyrimidine-based chemotherapy. International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 7(2), pp. 206-226. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2017.04.003) (PMID:28453984) (PMCID:PMC5407577)

Gras, S., Jackson, A., Woods, S., Pall, G., Whitelaw, J., Leung, J. M., Ward, G. E., Roberts, C. W. and Meissner, M. (2017) Parasites lacking the micronemal protein MIC2 are deficient in surface attachment and host cell egress, but remain virulent in vivo. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 32. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11594.2) (PMID:28630943) (PMCID:PMC5473411)

Stortz, J. A. et al. (2017) Genome-wide and protein kinase-focused RNAi screens reveal conserved and novel damage response pathways in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Pathogens, 13(7), e1006477. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006477) (PMID:28742144) (PMCID:PMC5542689)

Fernandez-Cortes, F., Serafim, T. D., Wilkes, J. M. , Jones, N. G., Ritchie, R., McCulloch, R. and Mottram, J. C. (2017) RNAi screening identifies Trypanosoma brucei stress response protein kinases required for survival in the mouse. Scientific Reports, 7, 6156. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06501-8) (PMID:28733613) (PMCID:PMC5522463)

van der Hooft, J. J.J. , Wandy, J. , Young, F., Padmanabhan, S. , Gerasimidis, K. , Burgess, K. E.V., Barrett, M. P. and Rogers, S. (2017) Unsupervised discovery and comparison of structural families across multiple samples in untargeted metabolomics. Analytical Chemistry, 89(14), pp. 7569-7577. (doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b01391) (PMID:28621528) (PMCID:PMC5524435)

Mwenechanya, R. et al. (2017) Sterol 14α-demethylase mutation leads to amphotericin B resistance in Leishmania mexicana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(6), e0005649. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005649) (PMID:28622334) (PMCID:PMC5498063)

Rojas, F., Koszela, J., Búa, J., Llorente, B., Burchmore, R. , Auer, M., Mottram, J. C. and Téllez-Iñón, M. T. (2017) The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme CDC34 is essential for cytokinesis in contrast to putative subunits of a SCF complex in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(6), e0005626. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005626) (PMID:28609481) (PMCID:PMC5507466)

Varyani, F., Fleming, J. O. and Maizels, R. (2017) Helminths in the gastrointestinal tract 1 as modulators of immunity and pathology. American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 312(6), G537-G549. (doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00024.2017) (PMID:28302598) (PMCID:5495915)

Coakley, G., McCaskill, J. L., Borger, J. G., Simbari, F., Robertson, E., Millar, M., Harcus, Y., McSorley, H. J., Maizels, R. M. and Buck, A. H. (2017) Extracellular vesicles from a helminth parasite suppress macrophage activation and constitute an effective vaccine for protective immunity. Cell Reports, 19(8), pp. 1545-1557. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.05.001) (PMID:28538175) (PMCID:PMC5457486)

Whitelaw, J. A. et al. (2017) Surface attachment, promoted by the actomyosin system of Toxoplasma gondii is important for efficient gliding motility and invasion. BMC Biology, 15, 1. (doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0343-5) (PMID:28100223) (PMCID:PMC5242020)

Cabrera, G., Silva, V. G., Mendes, I. C., Machado, C. R. and McCulloch, R. (2017) Genome maintenance in Trypanosomatids. In: Santos da Silva, M. and Cano, M. I. N. (eds.) Molecular and Cellular Biology of Pathogenic Trypanosomatids. Series: Frontiers in parasitology, 1. Bentham Science, pp. 195-260. ISBN 9781681084060 (doi: 10.2174/9781681084053117010008)

Vincent, I. M. , Daly, R. , Courtioux, B., Cattanach, A. M., Biéler, S., Ndung’u, J. M., Bisser, S. and Barrett, M. P. (2016) Metabolomics Identifies multiple candidate biomarkers to diagnose and stage human African trypanosomiasis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(12), e0005140. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005140) (PMID:27941966) (PMCID:PMC5152828)

Biéler, S. et al. (2016) Evaluation of antigens for development of a serological test for human African trypanosomiasis. PLoS ONE, 11(12), e0168074. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168074) (PMID:27936225) (PMCID:PMC5148118)

van Der Hooft, J. J. J. , Wandy, J. , Barrett, M. P. , Burgess, K. E.V. and Rogers, S. (2016) Topic modeling for untargeted substructure exploration in metabolomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(48), pp. 13738-13743. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1608041113) (PMID:27856765) (PMCID:PMC5137707)

Bichet, M., Touquet, B., Gonzalez, V., Florent, I., Meissner, M. and Tardieux, I. (2016) Genetic impairment of parasite myosin motors uncovers the contribution of host cell membrane dynamics to Toxoplasma invasion forces. BMC Biology, 14, 97. (doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0316-8) (PMID:27829452) (PMCID:PMC5101828)

Serpeloni, M., Jiménez-Ruiz, E. , Vidal, N. M., Kroeber, C., Andenmatten, N., Lemgruber, L. , Mörking, P., Pall, G. S., Meisner, M. and Ávila, A. R. (2016) UAP56 is a conserved crucial component of a divergent mRNA export pathway in Toxoplasma gondii. Molecular Microbiology, 102(4), pp. 672-689. (doi: 10.1111/mmi.13485) (PMID:27542978) (PMCID:PMC5118106)

Marques, C. A. , Tiengwe, C., Lemgruber Soares, L. , Damasceno, J. D., Scott, A., Paape, D. , Marcello, L. and McCulloch, R. (2016) Diverged composition and regulation of the Trypanosoma brucei origin recognition complex that mediates DNA replication initiation. Nucleic Acids Research, 44(10), pp. 4763-4784. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw147) (PMID:26951375) (PMCID:PMC4889932)

Damasceno, J. D., Obonaga, R., Santos, E. V., Scott, A., McCulloch, R. and Tosi, L. R.O. (2016) Functional compartmentalization of Rad9 and Hus1 reveals diverse assembly of the 9-1-1 complex components during the DNA damage response in Leishmania. Molecular Microbiology, 101(6), pp. 1054-1068. (doi: 10.1111/mmi.13441) (PMID:27301589) (PMCID:PMC5453112)

Capewell, P. et al. (2016) The skin is a significant but overlooked anatomical reservoir for vector-borne African trypanosomes. eLife, 5, e17716. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.17716) (PMID:27653219) (PMCID:PMC5065312)

Cooper, A., Capewell, P. , Clucas, C. , Veitch, N. , Weir, W. , Thomson, R., Raper, J. and MacLeod, A. (2016) A primate APOL1 variant that kills Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(8), e0004903. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004903) (PMID:27494254) (PMCID:PMC4975595)

Van Der Hooft, J. J.J. , Padmanabhan, S. , Burgess, K. E.V. and Barrett, M. P. (2016) Urinary antihypertensive drug metabolite screening using molecular networking coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry fragmentation. Metabolomics, 12, 125. (doi: 10.1007/s11306-016-1064-z) (PMID:27471437) (PMCID:PMC4932139)

Duncan, S. M., Myburgh, E. , Philipon, C., Brown, E., Meissner, M. , Brewer, J. and Mottram, J. (2016) Conditional gene deletion with DiCre demonstrates an essential role for CRK3 in Leishmania mexicana cell cycle regulation. Molecular Microbiology, 100(6), pp. 931-944. (doi: 10.1111/mmi.13375) (PMID:26991545) (PMCID:PMC4913733)

Devlin, R., Marques, C. A. , Paape, D. , Prorocic, M., Zurita-Leal, A. C., Campbell, S. J., Lapsley, C., Dickens, N. and McCulloch, R. (2016) Mapping replication dynamics in Trypanosoma brucei reveals a link with telomere transcription and antigenic variation. eLife, 5, e12765. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.12765) (PMID:27228154) (PMCID:PMC4946898)

Vincent, I. M., Ehmann, D. E., Mills, S. D., Perros, M. and Barrett, M. P. (2016) Untargeted metabolomics to ascertain antibiotic modes of action. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 60(4), pp. 2281-2291. (doi: 10.1128/AAC.02109-15) (PMID:26833150) (PMCID:PMC4808186)

Harding, C. R. , Egarter, S., Gow, M., Jiménez-Ruiz, E. , Ferguson, D. J.P. and Meissner, M. (2016) Gliding associated proteins play essential roles during the formation of the inner membrane complex of toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens, 12(2), e1005403. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005403) (PMID:26845335) (PMCID:PMC4742064)

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