Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Blastocystis"
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The Genome of Blastocystis sp. Isolated from the Oriental cockroach
(2019-11-28)Blastocystis spp. are unicellular anaerobic stramenopiles that inhabit the colons of a wide range of animals. Previous genome studies of Blastocystis were restricted to mammalian and avian-colonizing subtypes. To investigate ... -
Investigating the role of the anaerobic protist Blastocystis in the gut microbiome by metagenomic analysis
(2021-05-05)Blastocystis are amongst the most prevalent microbial eukaryotes inhabiting the gastrointestinal tracts of mammals. A bioinformatic workflow was developed to detect Blastocystis in gut metagenomic data and applied to 996 ...