Browsing Researchers in SANBI by Author "Masiga, Daniel K."
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Human African trypanosomiasis research gets booost: unravelling the tsetse Genome
Aksoy, Serap; Attardo, Geoffrey; Berriman, Matthew; Christoffels, Alan; Lehane, Mike; Masiga, Daniel K.; Toure', Yeya (PLOS, 2014)Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a neglected disease that impacts 70 million people distributed over 1.55 million km2 in sub-Saharan Africa. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense accounts for ... -
International Glossina Genome Initiative 2004-2014: a driver for post-genomic era research on the African continent
Christoffels, Alan; Masiga, Daniel K.; Berriman, Matthew; Lehane, Mike; Toure', Yeya; Aksoy, Serap (PLOS, 2014)Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a neglected disease that impacts 70 million people distributed over 1.55 million km2 in sub- Saharan Africa and includes at least 50% of the population ... -
Odorant and gustatory receptors in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans
Obiero, George F.; Nyanjom, Steven R. G.; Mireji, Paul O.; Christoffels, Alan; Robertson, Hugh M.; Masiga, Daniel K. (PLOS, 2014)Tsetse flies use olfactory and gustatory responses, through odorant and gustatory receptors (ORs and GRs), to interact with their environment. Glossina morsitans morsitans genome ORs and GRs were annotated using homologs ...