Browsing Research Articles (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 ...

    • Opportunities in Africa for training in genome science 

      Masiga, Daniel K.; Isokpehi, Raphael D. (Academic Journals, 2004)
      Genome science is a new type of biology that unites genetics, molecular biology, computational biology and bioinformatics. The availability of the human genome sequence, as well as the genome sequences of several other ...