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Title
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Comparative phylogenetic studies on Schistosoma japonicum and its snail intermediate host Oncomelania hupensis : origins, dispersal and coevolution
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Author
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Attwood, Stephen W., Ibaraki, Motomu, Saitoh, Yasuhide, Janies, Daniel
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Subjects--Topical
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Parasites, Coevolution, Public health
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Description
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Schistosoma japonicum causes major public health problems in China and the Philippines; this parasite, which is transmitted by freshwater snails of the species Oncomelania hupen- sis, causes the disease intestinal schistosomiasis in humans and cat...
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Title
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Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...
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EchinoDB, an application for comparative transcriptomics of deeply-sampled clades of echinoderms
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Witter, Zachary, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background: One of our goals for the echinoderm tree of life project (http://echinotol.org) is to identify orthologs suitable for phylogenetic analysis from next-generation transcriptome data. The current dataset is the largest assembled for echin...
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Title
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Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...
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Title
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Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...
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Title
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Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...
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Title
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Modeling Plasmodium falciparum diagnostic test sensitivity using machine learning with histidine-rich protein 2 variants
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Author
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Ford, Colby, Janies, Daniel, Alemayehu, Gezahegn, Lo, Eugenia, Blackburn, Kayla, Lopez, Karen, Dieng, Cheikh Cambel, Golassa, Lemu
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Subjects--Topical
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Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum
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Description
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Malaria, predominantly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, poses one of largest and most durable health threats in the world. Previously, simplistic regression-based models have been created to characterize malaria rapid diagnostic test performance, ...
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Title
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Patch dynamics modeling framework from pathogens' perspective : Unified and standardized approach for complicated epidemic systems
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Lo, Eugenia, Dulin, Michael
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Mathematical models are powerful tools to investigate, simulate, and evaluate potential interventions for infectious diseases dynamics. Much effort has focused on the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR)-type compartment models. These models consi...
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Title
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Phylogeny of echinoderm hemoglobins
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Linchangco, Gregorio V., Jr.
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Background Recent genomic information has revealed that neuroglobin and cytoglobin are the two principal lineages of vertebrate hemoglobins, with the latter encompassing the familiar myoglobin and alpha-globin/beta-globin tetramer hemoglobin, and ...
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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Title
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Sequence-based identification of Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent finding of a typically non-African Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia emphasizes the need for detailed species identification and characterization for effective malaria vector surveillance. Molecular approaches increase t...