Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Thompson, Eric"
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Characterization of the 18s rRNA gene for designing universal eukaryote specific primers
Hadziavdic, Kenan; Lekang, Katrine; Lanzén, Anders; Jonassen, Inge; Thompson, Eric; Troedsson, Christofer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-07)High throughput sequencing technology has great promise for biodiversity studies. However, an underlying assumption is that the primers used in these studies are universal for the prokaryotic or eukaryotic groups of interest. ... -
Comparative Animal Mucomics: Inspiration for Functional Materials from Ubiquitous and Understudied Biopolymers
Cerullo, Antonio R.; Lai, Tsoi Ying; Allam, Bassem; Baer, Alexander; Barnes, W. Jon P.; Barrientos, Zaidett; Deheyn, Dimitri D.; Fudge, Douglas S.; Gould, John A.; Harrington, Matthew J.; Holford, Mandë; Hung, Chia-Suei; Jain, Gaurav; Mayer, Georg; Medina, Mónica; Monge-Nájera, Julian; Napolitano, Tanya; Pales Espinosa, Emmanuelle; Schmidt, Stephan; Thompson, Eric; Braunschweig, Adam B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The functions of secreted animal mucuses are remarkably diverse and include lubricants, wet adhesives, protective barriers, and mineralizing agents. Although present in all animals, many open questions related to the ... -
Embryonic expression of endogenous retroviral RNAs in somatic tissues adjacent to the Oikopleura germline
Henriet, Simon; Sumic, Sara; Doufoundou-Guilengui, Carlette; Jensen, Marit Flo; Grandmougin, Camille; Fal, Kateryna; Thompson, Eric; Volff, Jean-Nicolas; Chourrout, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Selective pressure to maintain small genome size implies control of transposable elements, and most old classes of retrotransposons are indeed absent from the very compact genome of the tunicate Oikopleura dioica. Nonetheless, ... -
Evaluation of a eukaryote phylogenetic microarray for environmental monitoring of marine sediments
Lekang, Katrine; Lanzén, Anders; Jonassen, Inge; Thompson, Eric; Troedsson, Christofer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Increased exploitation of resources in sensitive marine ecosystems emphasizes the importance of knowledge regarding ecological impacts. However, current bio-monitoring practices are limited in terms of target-organisms and ... -
Future climate scenarios for a coastal productive planktonic food web resulting in microplankton phenology changes and decreased trophic transfer efficiency
Calbet, Albert; Sazhin, Andrey F.; Nejstgaard, Jens Christian; Berger, Stella Angela; Tait, Zachary S.; Olmos, Lorena; Sousoni, Despoina; Isari, Stamatina; Martinez, Rodrigo A.; Bouquet, Jean-Marie; Thompson, Eric; Båmstedt, Ulf; Jakobsen, Hans H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-10)We studied the effects of future climate change scenarios on plankton communities of a Norwegian fjord using a mesocosm approach. After the spring bloom, natural plankton were enclosed and treated in duplicates with inorganic ... -
High-throughput metabarcoding of eukaryotic diversity for environmental monitoring of offshore oil-drilling activities
Lanzén, Anders; Lekang, Katrine; Jonassen, Inge; Thompson, Eric; Troedsson, Christofer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)As global exploitation of available resources increases, operations extend towards sensitive and previously protected ecosystems. It is important to monitor such areas in order to detect, understand and remediate environmental ... -
Lifespan extension in a semelparous chordate occurs via developmental growth arrest just prior to meiotic entry
Subramaniam, Gunasekaran; Campsteijn, Coen; Thompson, Eric (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-02)It is proposed that the ageing process is linked to signaling from the germline such that the rate of ageing can be adjusted to the state of the reproductive system, allowing these two processes to co-evolve. Mechanistic ... -
OikoBase: a genomics and developmental transcriptomics resource for the urochordate Oikopleura dioica
Danks, Gemma Barbara; Campsteijn, Coen; Parida, Mruyunjaya; Butcher, Stephen; Doddapaneni, Harsha; Fu, Bolei; Petrin, Raul; Metpally, Raghu; Lenhard, Boris; Wincker, Patrick; Chourrout, Daniel; Thompson, Eric; Manak, J Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-11-26)We report the development of OikoBase (http://oikoarrays.biology.uiowa.edu/Oiko/), a tiling array-based genome browser resource for Oikopleura dioica, a metazoan belonging to the urochordates, the closest extant group to ... -
Specialization of CDK1 and cyclin B paralog functions in a coenocystic mode of oogenic meiosis
Feng, Haiyang; Thompson, Eric (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Oogenesis in the urochordate, Oikopleura dioica, occurs in a large coenocyst in which vitellogenesis precedes oocyte selection in order to adapt oocyte production to nutrient conditions. The animal has expanded Cyclin-Dependant ... -
Switching of INCENP paralogs controls transitions in mitotic chromosomal passenger complex functions
Feng, Haiyang; Raasholm, Martina; Moosmann-Schulmeister, Alexand; Campsteijn, Coen; Thompson, Eric (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)A single inner centromere protein (INCENP) found throughout eukaryotes modulates Aurora B kinase activity and chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) localization, which is essential for timely mitotic progression. It has been ... -
Trans-splicing of mRNAs links gene transcription to translational control regulated by mTOR
Danks, Gemma Barbara; Galbiati, Heloisa; Raasholm, Martina; Torres Cleuren, Yamila Nicole; Valen, Eivind; Navratilova, Pavla; Thompson, Eric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background: In phylogenetically diverse organisms, the 5′ ends of a subset of mRNAs are trans-spliced with a spliced leader (SL) RNA. The functions of SL trans-splicing, however, remain largely enigmatic. Results: We ...