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Russell F. Watkins
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 6
Citations - 300
Russell F. Watkins is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Dictyostelium discoideum. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 288 citations. Previous affiliations of Russell F. Watkins include University of British Columbia & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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A regulatory toolbox of MiniPromoters to drive selective expression in the brain
Elodie Portales-Casamar,Douglas J. Swanson,Li Liu,Charles N. de Leeuw,Kathleen G. Banks,Shannan J. Ho Sui,Debra L. Fulton,Johar Ali,Mahsa Amirabbasi,David J. Arenillas,Nazar Babyak,Sonia F. Black,Russell J. Bonaguro,Erich Brauer,Tara Candido,Mauro Castellarin,Jing M. Chen,Ying Chen,Jason C. Y. Cheng,Vik Chopra,T. Roderick Docking,Lisa Dreolini,Cletus D'Souza,Erin K. Flynn,Randy Glenn,Kristi Hatakka,Taryn G. Hearty,Behzad Imanian,Steven Jiang,Shadi Khorasan-zadeh,Ivana Komljenovic,Stéphanie Laprise,Nancy Y. Liao,Jonathan S. Lim,Stuart Lithwick,Flora Liu,Jun Liu,Meifen Lu,Melissa K. McConechy,Andrea J. McLeod,Marko Milisavljevic,Jacek Mis,Katie O’Connor,Betty Palma,Diana L. Palmquist,Jean-François Schmouth,Magdalena I. Swanson,Bonny Tam,Amy Ticoll,Jenna L. Turner,Richard Varhol,Jenny Vermeulen,Russell F. Watkins,Gary M. Wilson,Bibiana K. Y. Wong,Siaw H. Wong,Tony Wong,George S. Yang,Athena R. Ypsilanti,Steven J.M. Jones,Robert A. Holt,Dan Goldowitz,Wyeth W. Wasserman,Elizabeth M. Simpson +63 more
TL;DR: The Pleiades Promoter Project integrates genomewide bioinformatics with large-scale knockin mouse production and histological examination of expression patterns to develop MiniPromoters and related tools designed to study and treat the brain by directed gene expression.
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Gene discovery in the Acanthamoeba castellanii genome.
Iain J. Anderson,Russell F. Watkins,John Samuelson,David F. Spencer,William H. Majoros,Michael W. Gray,Brendan J. Loftus +6 more
TL;DR: The data predict that A. castellanii exhibits a greater biosynthetic capacity than the free-living Dictyostelium discoideum and the parasite Entamoeba histolytica, providing an explanation for the ability of this ubiquitous and important protist to inhabit a diversity of environments.
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An ancient spliceosomal intron in the ribosomal protein L7a gene (Rpl7a) of Giardia lamblia
TL;DR: An analysis of the phylogenetic distribution and properties of the Rpl7a intron suggests its utility as a phylogenetic marker to evaluate particular eukaryotic groupings and some of the conserved and unique features possessed by the recently identified spliceosomal introns in related organisms such as T. vaginalis and Carpediemonas membranifera.
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A complex and punctate distribution of three eukaryotic genes derived by lateral gene transfer
Matthew B. Rogers,Russell F. Watkins,James T. Harper,Dion G. Durnford,Michael W. Gray,Patrick J. Keeling +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that several apparently simple cases of lateral transfer are actually more complex than they originally appeared: in these instances two or more distantly related eukaryotic groups share the same bacterial gene, resulting in a punctate distribution.
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The Frequency of Eubacterium-to-Eukaryote Lateral Gene Transfers Shows Significant Cross-Taxa Variation Within Amoebozoa
TL;DR: Analysis of expressed sequence tag data sets indicates that there may be substantial inter-taxon variation in the number of LGT events that become fixed even between amoebozoan species that have similar feeding modalities.