Publications by authors named "Christopher R Gissendanner"
Article Synopsis
- - The study details the complete genome sequences of 19 cluster CA bacteriophages that were isolated from environmental samples using a specific bacterial host.
- - These phages have comparable genome lengths, ranging from 46,314 to 46,985 base pairs, and possess similar G+C content percentages between 58.5% and 58.8%.
- - There is notable nucleotide sequence similarity among the phages, indicating a genetic connection or relatedness among them.
Article Synopsis
- Mycobacteriophages are a type of virus that specifically infect mycobacterial hosts, such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and are characterized by their diverse genetic makeup.
- Recent research isolated and sequenced 18 new mycobacteriophages from different locations in the U.S., adding to the understanding of phage diversity and mobile elements in viral evolution.
- The study also emphasizes the educational aspect, showing how freshman college students can engage in real research by isolating and analyzing these bacteriophages.
Diversity and function of orphan nuclear receptors in nematodes.
Crit Rev Eukaryot Gene Expr
April 2003
Nuclear receptors (NRs) have key regulatory functions in a wide range of biological processes and are one of the most abundant classes of transcriptional regulators in metazoans. NRs are particularly numerous in nematodes, in which the NR gene family has undergone extensive expansion and diversification, providing an evolutionary structure function experiment that is yielding new perspectives on the mechanisms of NR function and on nematode biology. The genome sequence of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans reveals 270 predicted NR genes, more than fivefold more than observed for any other species to date, though existing data suggest that NR genes are similarly abundant in other nematodes.
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