Imperial College London

ProfessorTimBarraclough

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 2247t.barraclough Website

 
 
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Location

 

N2.4Silwood ParkSilwood Park

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wilson:2024:10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.001,
author = {Wilson, CG and Pieszko, T and Nowell, RW and Barraclough, TG},
doi = {10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.001},
journal = {Trends Genet},
title = {Recombination in bdelloid rotifer genomes: asexuality, transfer and stress.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.001},
year = {2024}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Bdelloid rotifers constitute a class of microscopic animals living in freshwater habitats worldwide. Several strange features of bdelloids have drawn attention: their ability to tolerate desiccation and other stresses, a lack of reported males across the clade despite centuries of study, and unusually high numbers of horizontally acquired, non-metazoan genes. Genome sequencing is transforming our understanding of their lifestyle and its consequences, while in turn providing wider insights about recombination and genome organisation in animals. Many questions remain, not least how to reconcile apparent genomic signatures of sex with the continued absence of reported males, why bdelloids have so many horizontally acquired genes, and how their remarkable ability to survive stress interacts with recombination and other genomic processes.
AU - Wilson,CG
AU - Pieszko,T
AU - Nowell,RW
AU - Barraclough,TG
DO - 10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.001
PY - 2024///
SN - 0168-9525
TI - Recombination in bdelloid rotifer genomes: asexuality, transfer and stress.
T2 - Trends Genet
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2024.02.001
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38458877
ER -