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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017

Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont

XiaoLi Bing, Geoffrey M Attardo, Aurelien Vigneron, Emre Aksoy, Francesca Scolari, Anna Malacrida, Brian L Weiss, Serap Aksoy

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

XiaoLi BingDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Geoffrey M AttardoDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Aurelien VigneronDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Emre AksoyDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Francesca ScolariDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Anna MalacridaDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Brian L WeissDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Serap AksoyDepartment of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520, USA serap.aksoy@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-143X
Yale University · USUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

Molecular Aspects of Tsetse and Trypanosome TransmissionR01AI051584 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI AKSOY, SERAP · 2003 to 2013
$4.3M
Tsetse Fecundity Reduction for Trypanosomiasis ControlR01AI081774 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI AKSOY, SERAP · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
Expanding the toolbox for tsetse reproductive biologyR21AI109263 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI AKSOY, SERAP, ATTARDO, GEOFFREY M · 2014 to 2015
$428k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051584NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI081774NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI109263
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insects with restricted diets rely on obligate microbes to fulfil nutritional requirements essential for biological function. Tsetse flies, vectors of African trypanosome parasites, feed exclusively on vertebrate blood and harbour the obligate endosymbiont

Indexed as

MetabolomeSymbiosisTranscriptomeAmino AcidsAnimalsCarbohydrate MetabolismChaperonin 60FemaleSequence Analysis, RNATsetse FliesVitamin B ComplexWigglesworthiaAmino AcidsChaperonin 60Vitamin B Complexmetabolomic analysismutualismtranscriptomic profilingtsetsevitamin biosynthesisWigglesworthia symbiosis

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PMID28659447
PMCPMC5489720
OpenAlexW2725871709

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