Publications by authors named "Jose Luis Juarez-Morales"
Ladybird homeobox (Lbx) transcription factors have crucial functions in muscle and nervous system development in many animals. Amniotes have two Lbx genes, but only Lbx1 is expressed in spinal cord. In contrast, teleosts have three lbx genes and we show here that zebrafish lbx1a, lbx1b, and lbx2 are expressed by distinct spinal cell types, and that lbx1a is expressed in dI4, dI5, and dI6 interneurons, as in amniotes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranscriptomic analysis of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, Boone 1931) in response to acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Adrián E Velázquez-Lizárraga José Luis Juárez-Morales Ilie S Racotta Humberto Villarreal-Colmenares Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez
PLoS One
March 2020
Article Synopsis
- Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) in shrimp, caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus, leads to severe tissue damage in the hepatopancreas due to toxins encoded on a plasmid.
- A study on juvenile shrimp infected with V. parahaemolyticus revealed 915 differentially expressed transcripts, indicating significant changes in metabolic and immune-related genes.
- Protein-protein network analysis identified connections between immune response and metabolism, with ten candidate transcripts selected for further validation, shedding light on the molecular pathways involved in the response to AHPND infection.