Monthly Archives: May 2017

quaddRAD: a new high-multiplexing and PCR duplicate removal ddRAD protocol produces novel evolutionary insights in a nonradiating cichlid lineage

May 2017 Authors: Franchini P, Monné Parera D, Kautt AF, Meyer A Info: Scientists from the University of Konstanz modified the original ddRAD-seq protocol to make it faster, more cost-effective, and higher-capacity. They report results from validating the new method … more »

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How to CATCH Your Gene of Interest

If you haven’t heard about CATCH by now, it’s time to catch up. Short for Cas9-assisted targeting of chromosome segments, CATCH comes from the lab of Yuval Ebenstein at Tel Aviv University and was first reported in this Nature Communications … more »

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Comparative Analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum Methylomes

April 2017 Authors: Ivan Erill, Marina Puigvert, Ludovic Legrand, Rodrigo Guarischi-Sousa, et al. Info: Scientists report results of analyzing epigenetic patterns in two strains of a plant pathogen. They determined that methylation regulates virulence and adaptation to different host plants. … more »

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Tripartite species interaction: eukaryotic hosts suffer more from phage susceptible than from phage resistant bacteria

April 2017 Authors: Carolin Wendling, Agnes Piecyk, Dominik Refardt, Cynthia Chibani, et al. Info: Scientists investigated the extent to which a bacterium’s susceptibility or resistance to prophages alters its own effect as a pathogen, finding that bacteria that were more … more »

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