Abstract The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase (http://geneontology. org) is a
comprehensive resource concerning the functions of genes and gene products (proteins …

Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium chabaudi are widely used model malaria species.
Comparison of their genomes, integrated with proteomic and microarray data, with the …

Increasing litter size has long been a goal of pig breeders and producers, and may have
implications for pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) welfare. This paper reviews the scientific …

We have sequenced and annotated the genome of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces
pombe), which contains the smallest number of protein-coding genes yet recorded for a …

Streptomyces coelicolor is a representative of the group of soil-dwelling, filamentous
bacteria responsible for producing most natural antibiotics used in human and veterinary …

The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of
malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an …

Leprosy, a chronic human neurological disease, results from infection with the obligate
intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, a close relative of the tubercle bacillus …

Campylobacter jejuni, from the delta-epsilon group of proteobacteria, is a microaerophilic,
Gram-negative, flagellate, spiral bacterium—properties it shares with the related gastric …

Abstract The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of the systemic
invasive infectious disease classically referred to as plague, and has been responsible for …

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. typhi) is the aetiological agent of typhoid fever, a
serious invasive bacterial disease of humans with an annual global burden of approximately …