Outputs (40)

Genomic Characterisation of Novel Veterinary Pathogens: Anaplasma & Bartonella species (2025)
Thesis

Background: Bartonella sp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Ap) are vector-borne
bacterial pathogens with significant veterinary and public health implications. While
Bartonella species persist in the bloodstream of various mammals causing long term... Read More about Genomic Characterisation of Novel Veterinary Pathogens: Anaplasma & Bartonella species.

The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland (2025)
Thesis

Ticks are an ecosystem disservice in urban greenspaces, with the potential to transmit diseases. The characteristics of an urban greenspace can impact the hazard of ticks and tick-borne pathogens both within a greenspace and in the surrounding area.... Read More about The Association of Urban Greenspace Characteristics with Tick Densities and Borrelia burgdorferi prevalence in Scotland.

Comparison of dental topography of marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae) to other platyrrhine primates using a novel freeware pipeline (2024)
Journal Article

Dental topographic metrics (DTMs), which quantify different aspects of the shape of teeth, are powerful tools for studying dietary adaptation and evolution in mammals. However, comparative samples of scanned mammal teeth suitable for analysis with D... Read More about Comparison of dental topography of marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae) to other platyrrhine primates using a novel freeware pipeline.

Understanding the Impact of Temperate Bacteriophages on Their Lysogens Through Transcriptomics. (2024)
Journal Article
Krishnamurthi, R., González-Tortuero, E., Plahe, G., Goodhead, I. B., Fothergill, J. L., James, C. E., & Allison, H. E. (in press). Understanding the Impact of Temperate Bacteriophages on Their Lysogens Through Transcriptomics. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 10.3791/64945. https://doi.org/10.3791/64945

Temperate phages are found integrated as prophages in the majority of bacterial genomes. Some prophages are cryptic and fixed in the bacterial chromosome, but others are active and can be triggered into a replicative form either spontaneously or by e... Read More about Understanding the Impact of Temperate Bacteriophages on Their Lysogens Through Transcriptomics..

Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes. (2023)
Journal Article

Noncoding DNA is central to our understanding of human gene regulation and complex diseases , and measuring the evolutionary sequence constraint can establish the functional relevance of putative regulatory elements in the human genome . Identifying... Read More about Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes..

Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions (2023)
Thesis

Forest trees have been increasingly threatened by invasive pathogens,
endangering associated biodiversity, and reducing ecosystems. Such an alien pathogen,
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, has had considerable impacts on the common ash tree
(Fraxinus exce... Read More about Determining management strategies to control ash dieback disease through molecular and environmental interactions.

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. (2023)
Journal Article

Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To systematically decipher the effects of human genetic variants, we obtain... Read More about The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates..

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species. (2023)
Journal Article

The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental biological processes. Analysis of that diversity provides insight into lon... Read More about A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species..

Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches (2022)
Journal Article
Beck, R., de Vries, D., Janiak, M., Goodhead, I., & Boubli, J. (2022). Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches. Journal of Human Evolution, 174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103293

There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New World
monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have integrated
both types of data into a total evidence approach. Here, we pr... Read More about Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches.

Two hundred and five newly assembled mitogenomes provide mixed evidence for rivers as drivers of speciation for Amazonian primates (2022)
Journal Article

Mitochondrial DNA remains a cornerstone for molecular ecology, especially for study species from which high-quality tissue samples cannot be easily obtained. Methods using mitochondrial markers are usually reliant on reference databases, but these ar... Read More about Two hundred and five newly assembled mitogenomes provide mixed evidence for rivers as drivers of speciation for Amazonian primates.