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  1. Massive invasion of organellar DNA drives nuclear genome evolution in Toxoplasma

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  2. Humoral immunity prevents clinical malaria during Plasmodium relapses without eliminating gametocytes

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, September 2019, PLOS

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  3. Is reliance on an inaccurate genome sequence sabotaging your experiments?

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, September 2019, PLOS

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  4. A Genetically Tractable, Natural Mouse Model of Cryptosporidiosis Offers Insights into Host Protective Immunity

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  5. Distinct amino acid and lipid perturbations characterize acute versus chronic malaria

    Article • JCI Insight, May 2019, American Society for Clinical Investigation

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  6. Evolution of Cryptosporidium

    Article • Nature Microbiology, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  7. Assembly of highly repetitive genomes using short reads: the genome of discrete typing unit III Trypanosoma cruzi strain 231

    Article • Microbial Genomics, April 2018, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  8. FungiDB: An Integrated Bioinformatic Resource for Fungi and Oomycetes

    Article • Journal of Fungi, March 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  9. Enrichment of Cryptosporidium parvum from in vitro culture as measured by total RNA and subsequent sequence analysis

    Article • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  10. EuPathDB: The Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database Resource

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  11. Correction to: Integrative analysis associates monocytes with insufficient erythropoiesis during acute Plasmodium cynomolgi malaria in rhesus macaques

    Article • Malaria Journal, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  12. Ablation of an Ovarian Tumor Family Deubiquitinase Exposes the Underlying Regulation Governing the Plasticity of Cell Cycle Progression in Toxoplasma gondii

    Article • mBio, November 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Anthony P Sinai, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  13. MicrobiomeDB: a systems biology platform for integrating, mining and analyzing microbiome experiments

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  14. Integrative analysis associates monocytes with insufficient erythropoiesis during acute Plasmodium cynomolgi malaria in rhesus macaques

    Article • Malaria Journal, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  15. PacBio assembly of a Plasmodium knowlesi genome sequence with Hi-C correction and manual annotation of the SICAvar gene family

    Article • Parasitology, July 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  16. A Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Anchored Carbonic Anhydrase-Related Protein of Toxoplasma gondii Is Important for Rhoptry Biogenesis and Virulence

    Article • mSphere, May 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  17. Evolution of the Apicomplexan Sugar Transporter Gene Family Repertoire

    Article • International Journal of Genomics, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  18. EuPathDB: the eukaryotic pathogen genomics database resource

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  19. Plasmodium cynomolgi infections in rhesus macaques display clinical and parasitological features pertinent to modelling vivax malaria pathology and relapse infections

    Article • Malaria Journal, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  20. High-Quality Genome Assembly and Annotation for Plasmodium coatneyi , Generated Using Single-Molecule Real-Time PacBio Technology

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2016, ASM Journals

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  21. Annotated draft genome sequences of three species ofCryptosporidium:Cryptosporidium meleagridisisolate UKMEL1,C. baileyiisolate TAMU-09Q1 andC. hominisisolates TU502_2012 and UKH1

    Article • Pathogens and Disease, August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Marcus C Chibucos, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  22. An unsettling picture emerges from population genomic studies of Plasmodium vivax

    Article • Nature Genetics, July 2016, Nature

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  23. An evolutionary approach to identify potentially protective B cell epitopes involved in naturally acquired immunity to malaria and the role of EBA-175 in protection amongst denizens of Bolifamba, Cameroon

    Article • Malaria Journal, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  24. The Genome ofHaemoproteus tartakovskyiand Its Relationship to Human Malaria Parasites

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, April 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  25. Local admixture of amplified and diversified secreted pathogenesis determinants shapes mosaic Toxoplasma gondii genomes

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2016, Nature

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  26. Cryptosporidium hominisgene catalog: a resource for the selection of novelCryptosporidiumvaccine candidates

    Article • Database, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  27. From genome-scale data to models of infectious disease: A Bayesian network-based strategy to drive model development

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  28. Mathematical model of susceptibility, resistance, and resilience in the within-host dynamics between a Plasmodium parasite and the immune system

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  29. Neglected Tropical Diseases in the Post-Genomic Era

    Article • Trends in Genetics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  30. Systems-Based Analysis of the Sarcocystis neurona Genome Identifies Pathways That Contribute to a Heteroxenous Life Cycle

    Article • mBio, February 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  31. Comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics in a rhesus macaque drug administration study

    Article • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  32. Metabolomics in the fight against malaria

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, August 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  33. TheCryptosporidium parvumApiAP2 gene family: insights into the evolution of apicomplexan AP2 regulatory systems

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  34. Standardized Metadata for Human Pathogen/Vector Genomic Sequences

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2014, PLOS

    Mr R. Burke Squires, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  35. A Survey of Innovation through Duplication in the Reduced Genomes of Twelve Parasites

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2014, PLOS

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  36. Real-Time Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RealAmp) for the Species-Specific Identification of Plasmodium vivax

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2013, PLOS

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  37. Genome-wide upstream motif analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum genes clustered by expression profile

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  38. Malaria Diagnostics and Surveillance in the Post-Genomic Era

    Article • Public Health Genomics, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  39. EuPathDB: The Eukaryotic Pathogen database

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  40. SchistoDB: an updated genome resource for the three key schistosomes of humans

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  41. A 43-Nucleotide U-rich Element in 3′-Untranslated Region of Large Number ofTrypanosoma cruziTranscripts Is Important for mRNA Abundance in Intracellular Amastigotes

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  42. A New Single-Step PCR Assay for the Detection of the Zoonotic Malaria Parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2012, PLOS

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  43. MCScanX: a toolkit for detection and evolutionary analysis of gene synteny and collinearity

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  44. FungiDB: an integrated functional genomics database for fungi

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  45. Recombination in Avian Gamma-Coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus

    Article • Viruses, September 2011, MDPI AG

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  46. Changes in nonstructural protein 3 are associated with attenuation in avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus

    Article • Virus Genes, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  47. Genome cartography: charting the apicomplexan genome

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  48. Web Service Composition Using Service Suggestions

    Article • July 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  49. The strategies WDK: a graphical search interface and web development kit for functional genomics databases

    Article • Database, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  50. Attenuated live vaccine usage affects accurate measures of virus diversity and mutation rates in avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus

    Article • Virus Research, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  51. Applied Genomics: Data Mining Reveals Species-Specific Malaria Diagnostic Targets More Sensitive than 18S rRNA

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2011, ASM Journals

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  52. Jumbled Genomes: Missing Apicomplexan Synteny

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  53. AmoebaDB and MicrosporidiaDB: functional genomic resources for Amoebozoa and Microsporidia species

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  54. Emergence of a group 3 coronavirus through recombination

    Article • Virology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  55. The Alveolate Perkinsus marinus: Biological Insights from EST Gene Discovery

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  56. EuPathDB: a portal to eukaryotic pathogen databases

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  57. TriTrypDB: a functional genomic resource for the Trypanosomatidae

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  58. Web site evolution: Usability evaluation using Time Series Analysis of Selected Episode Graphs

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  59. Adapting the Galaxy Bioinformatics Tool to Support Semantic Web Service Composition

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  60. GiardiaDB and TrichDB: integrated genomic resources for the eukaryotic protist pathogens Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  61. Identification and functional characterization of cis-regulatory elements in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

    Article • Genome Biology, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  62. PlasmoDB: a functional genomic database for malaria parasites

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  63. SchistoDB: a Schistosoma mansoni genome resource

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  64. piggyBac is an effective tool for functional analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum genome

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger, John Adams

  65. The Apicomplexan Whole-Genome Phylogeny: An Analysis of Incongruence among Gene Trees

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  66. TcruziKB: Enabling Complex Queries for Genomic Data Exploration

    Article • August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  67. WS-BioZard: A Wizard for Composing Bioinformatics Web Services

    Article • July 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  68. Determining the protein repertoire ofCryptosporidium parvum sporozoites

    Article • PROTEOMICS, April 2008, Wiley

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  69. Consistent and contrasting properties of lineage-specific genes in the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium and Theileria

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  70. Genomics

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  71. ToxoDB: an integrated Toxoplasma gondii database resource

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  72. Article • BMC Genomics, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  73. PlasmoDB v5: new looks, new genomes

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  74. Identification of Diverse Archaeal Proteins with Class III Signal Peptides Cleaved by Distinct Archaeal Prepilin Peptidases

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2006, ASM Journals

    Professor Sonja-Verena Albers, Dr. Mechthild Pohlschroder, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  75. ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  76. Many gene and domain families have convergent fates following independent whole-genome duplication events in Arabidopsis, Oryza, Saccharomyces and Tetraodon

    Article • Trends in Genetics, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  77. SynView: a GBrowse-compatible approach to visualizing comparative genome data

    Article • Bioinformatics, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  78. A tale of three genomes: the kinetoplastids have arrived

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  79. CryptoDB: a Cryptosporidium bioinformatics resource update

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  80. TcruziDB: an integrated, post-genomics community resource for Trypanosoma cruzi

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  81. Genomics meets transgenics in search of the elusive Cryptosporidium drug target

    Article • Trends in Parasitology, August 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  82. Widespread distribution of antisense transcripts in the Plasmodium falciparum genome

    Article • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  83. O-glycosylation in Toxoplasma gondii: Identification and analysis of a family of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferases

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, March 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Steven L Spitalnik, Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  84. A first glimpse into the pattern and scale of gene transfer in the Apicomplexa

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  85. Analysis of the first and second internal transcribed spacer sequences of the ribosomal DNA in Biomphalaria tenagophila complex (Mollusca: Planorbidae)

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, March 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  86. Gene transfer in the evolution of parasite nucleotide biosynthesis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  87. CryptoDB: the Cryptosporidium genome resource

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  88. Article • Genome Biology, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  89. TcruziDB: an integrated Trypanosoma cruzi genome resource

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  90. Gene Discovery in the Apicomplexa as Revealed by EST Sequencing and Assembly of a Comparative Gene Database

    Article • Genome Research, March 2003, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  91. Recent Expansion of Toxoplasma Through Enhanced Oral Transmission

    Article • Science, January 2003, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  92. PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. A database integrating experimental and computational data

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  93. ToxoDB: accessing the Toxoplasma gondii genome

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  94. The Plasmodium genome database

    Article • Nature, October 2002, Nature

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  95. A Multiplex-PCR approach to identification of the Brazilian intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, October 2002, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  96. Adaptation of protein secretion to extremely high-salt conditions by extensive use of the twin-arginine translocation pathway

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2002, Wiley

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  97. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE AVIAN MALARIAL PARASITE PLASMODIUM (NOVYELLA) JUXTANUCLEARE

    Article • Journal of Parasitology, August 2002, American Society of Parasitologists

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  98. Mining the Plasmodium genome database to define organellar function: what does the apicoplast do?

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  99. PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. An integrated database providing tools for accessing, analyzing and mapping expression and sequence data (both finished and unfinished)

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  100. Chloroplast transit peptide prediction: a peek inside the black box

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, August 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  101. Parasite genomics: current status and future prospects

    Article • Current Opinion in Immunology, August 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger, Dr Rick L Tarleton

  102. A survey of the Leishmania major Friedlin strain V1 genome by shotgun sequencing: a resource for DNA microarrays and expression profiling

    Article • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, April 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  103. Nuclear-Encoded, Plastid-Targeted Genes Suggest a Single Common Origin for Apicomplexan and Dinoflagellate Plastids

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, March 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  104. Phylogenetic relationships among Brazilian Biomphalaria species (Mollusca: Planorbidae) based upon analysis of ribosomal ITS2 sequences

    Article • Parasitology, December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  105. AVP2, a Sequence-Divergent, K+-Insensitive H+-Translocating Inorganic Pyrophosphatase from Arabidopsis

    Article • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, May 2000, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  106. The Targets of the Lytic Antibody Response against Trypanosoma cruzi

    Article • Parasitology Today, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  107. Origin, targeting, and function of the apicomplexan plastid

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, August 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  108. Evolutionary changes in sites and timing of actin gene expression in embryos of the direct- and indirect-developing sea urchins, Heliocidaris erythrogramma and H. tuberculata

    Article • Development Genes and Evolution, May 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  109. Plasmodium inui Is Not Closely Related to Other Quartan Plasmodium Species

    Article • Journal of Parasitology, April 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  110. Phylogenetic analysis of haemosporinid parasites (apicomplexa: Haemosporina) and their coevolution with vectors and intermediate hosts

    Article • Archiv für Protistenkunde, October 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  111. Regulation and trafficking of three distinct 18 S ribosomal RNAs during development of the malaria parasite

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  112. Rapid evolution in a conserved gene family. Evolution of the actin gene family in the sea urchin genus Heliocidaris and related genera

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  113. Addressing the gender gap in evolutionary biology

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, February 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  114. Comparison of circumsporozoite proteins from avian and mammalian malarias: biological and phylogenetic implications.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 1996, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  115. Sea urchin Hox genes: insights into the ancestral Hox cluster

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, October 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  116. Structure and evolution of CyI cytoplasmic actin-encoding genes in the indirect- and direct-developing sea urchins Heliocidaris tuberculata and Heliocidaris erythrogramma

    Article • Gene, February 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  117. In vitro susceptibility studies of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis.

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 1989, ASM Journals

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  118. Proteomic and genomic approaches to understanding the 'power plant' of Cryptosporidium.

    Article • CABI Publishing

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger

  119. Toxoplasma gondii: A Model for Evolutionary Genomics and Chemotherapy

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jessica C Kissinger