Shahid Siddique
nemaplant.bsky.social
Shahid Siddique
@nemaplant.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Associate Nematologist at UC Davis. Parasites, Plants, Nutrients, Immunity 🪱🌱🍅💉
www.nemaplant.org
Reposted by Shahid Siddique
Worms just keeping everything good a weird with holocentric chromosomes AND weird caps at the ends. Awesome to see such an example of the diversity of solutions to segregating and maintaining information in chromosomes!
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
-Effectors are often domain-less, and enriched in high-recombination regions → hinting at adaptive evolution
Note: I am wrongly labelled as first author. Its
@pallavishakya.bsky.social
's work. A new version with correct author arrangement has been submitted.
May 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
-Genome structure validated with F2 linkage mapping. A first in plant-parasitic nematodes
-Structural variation between isolates: fissions, fusions, rearrangements
-Sharp zones of high recombination on most chromosome arms
May 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Beautiful work. Congrats @yichangsung.bsky.social all coauthors @gittacoaker.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great news. Many congrats Deepak.
November 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM