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Draft Genome of the Liver Fluke Fasciola gigantica

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The draft genome of Fasciola gigantica presents a comprehensive resource to facilitate the development of novel interventions for fascioliasis control and indicates that the fatty acid required for survival of the fluke may be acquired from the host bile.
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Fascioliasis, a neglected foodborne disease caused by liver flukes (genus Fasciola), affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Despite technological advances, little is known about the molecu...

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Recent Progress in the Development of Liver Fluke and Blood Fluke Vaccines

TL;DR: The status currently of vaccine development is summarized, some of the major scientific targets for progression are identified and future innovations that may provide effective protective immunity against these helminth parasites and the diseases they cause are discussed.
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Phosphoglycerate kinase: structural aspects and functions, with special emphasis on the enzyme from Kinetoplastea.

TL;DR: The overall aspects of this enzyme are highlighted, such as its structure, reaction kinetics, activity regulation and possible moonlighting functions in different protistan organisms, especially both free-living and parasitic Kinetoplastea.
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Fasciola Species Introgression: Just a Fluke or Something More?

TL;DR: How an increased demand for animal-derived protein, combined with a lack of appropriate tools for detection of these events, is changing the status quo of these zoonotic parasites is highlighted.
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Identification and characterization of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase from the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica.

TL;DR: The cytosolic malate dehydrogenase in F. gigantica is identified and the enzyme biochemically and structurally characterized and the structural and functional properties of MDH are understood to better understand the roles of this enzyme in the biochemistry of the parasite.
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KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

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KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

TL;DR: The KEGG GENES database now includes viruses, plasmids, and the addendum category for functionally characterized proteins that are not represented in complete genomes, and new automatic annotation servers, BlastKOalA and GhostKOALA, are made available utilizing the non-redundant pangenome data set generated from theGENES database.
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