Naomi M. Fast

ESTs from the microsporidian Edhazardia aedis (2008)

Gill, Erin E, Becnel, James J, Fast, Naomi M

Abstract Background Microsporidia are a group of parasites related to fungi that infect a wide variety of animals and have gained recognition from the medical community in the past 20 years due to...

Genome sequence surveys of Brachiola algerae and Edhazardia aedis reveal microsporidia with low gene densities (2008)

Williams, Bryony AP, Lee, Renny CH, Becnel, James J, Weiss, Louis M, Fast, Naomi M, Keeling, Patrick J

Abstract Background Microsporidia are well known models of extreme nuclear genome reduction and compaction. The smallest microsporidian genomes have received the most attention, but genomes of...

Stripped-down DNA repair in a highly reduced parasite (2007)

Gill, Erin E, Fast, Naomi M

Abstract Background Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a member of a distinctive group of single-celled parasitic eukaryotes called microsporidia, which are closely related to fungi. Some of these...

Stripped-down DNA repair in a highly reduced parasite (2007)

Gill, Erin E, Fast, Naomi M

Abstract Background Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a member of a distinctive group of single-celled parasitic eukaryotes called microsporidia, which are closely related to fungi. Some of these...

Stripped-down DNA repair in a highly reduced parasite (2007)

Erin E Gill, Naomi M Fast

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background: Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a member of a distinctive group of...

Covarion Shifts Cause a Long Branch Attraction Artifact That Unites Microsporidia and Archaebacteria in EF-1{alpha} Phylogenies (2004)

Inagaki, Yuji, Susko, Edward, Fast, Naomi M., Roger, Andrew J.

Microsporidia branch at the base of eukaryotic phylogenies inferred from translation elongation factor 1α (EF-1α) sequences. Since these parasitic eukaryotes are fungi (or close relatives of...

Covarion Shifts Cause a Long-Branch Attraction Artifact That Unites Microsporidia and Archaebacteria in EF-1{alpha} Phylogenies (2004)

Inagaki, Yuji, Susko, Edward, Fast, Naomi M., Roger, Andrew J.

Microsporidia branch at the base of eukaryotic phylogenies inferred from translation elongation factor 1α (EF-1α) sequences. Because these parasitic eukaryotes are fungi (or close relatives of...

Covarion Shifts Cause a Long Branch Attraction Artifact That Unites Microsporidia and Archaebacteria in EF-1{alpha} Phylogenies (2004)

Inagaki, Yuji, Susko, Edward, Fast, Naomi M., Roger, Andrew J.

Microsporidia branch at the base of eukaryotic phylogenies inferred from translation elongation factor 1α (EF-1α) sequences. Since these parasitic eukaryotes are fungi (or close relatives of...

Re-examining Alveolate Evolution Using Multiple Protein Molecular Phylogenies (2002)

NAOMI M. FAST, LINGRU XUE, SCOTT BINGHAM, PATRICK J. KEELING

Alveolates are a diverse group of protists that includes three major lineages: ciliates, apicomplexa, and dinoflagellates. Among these three, it is thought that the apicomplexa and dinoflagellates...

Tubulins in Trichomonas vaginalis: Molecular Characterization of α-Tubulin Genes, Posttranslational Modifications, and Homology Modeling of the Tubulin Dimer (2001)

CHRISTOPHE NOËL, DELPHINE GERBOD, NAOMI. M. FAST, RENÉ WINTJENS, PILAR DELGADO-VISCOGLIOSI, W. FORD DOOLITTLE, ...

We have isolated and analysed an α-tubulin-encoding gene (atub1) in an early-diverging eukaryote, Trichomonas vaginalis. The complete atub1 open reading frame included 1,356 bp encoding a...

Nuclear-Encoded, Plastid-Targeted Genes Suggest a Single Common Origin for Apicomplexan and Dinoflagellate Plastids (2001)

Fast, Naomi M., Kissinger, Jessica C., Roos, David S., Keeling, Patrick J.

The phylum Apicomplexa encompasses a large number of intracellular protozoan parasites, including the causative agents of malaria (Plasmodium), toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma), and many other human and...

Bacterial Catalase in the Microsporidian Nosema locustae: Implications for Microsporidian Metabolism and Genome Evolution

Fast, Naomi M., Law, Joyce S., Williams, Bryony A. P., Keeling, Patrick J.

Microsporidia constitute a group of extremely specialized intracellular parasites that infect virtually all animals. They are highly derived, reduced fungi that lack several features typical of other...

A high frequency of overlapping gene expression in compacted eukaryotic genomes

Williams, Bryony A. P., Slamovits, Claudio H., Patron, Nicola J., Fast, Naomi M., Keeling, Patrick J.

The gene density of eukaryotic nuclear genomes is generally low relative to prokaryotes, but several eukaryotic lineages (many parasites or endosymbionts) have independently evolved highly compacted,...

Bacterial Catalase in the Microsporidian Nosema locustae: Implications for Microsporidian Metabolism and Genome Evolution

Fast, Naomi M., Law, Joyce S., Williams, Bryony A. P., Keeling, Patrick J.

Microsporidia constitute a group of extremely specialized intracellular parasites that infect virtually all animals. They are highly derived, reduced fungi that lack several features typical of other...

A high frequency of overlapping gene expression in compacted eukaryotic genomes

Williams, Bryony A. P., Slamovits, Claudio H., Patron, Nicola J., Fast, Naomi M., Keeling, Patrick J.

The gene density of eukaryotic nuclear genomes is generally low relative to prokaryotes, but several eukaryotic lineages (many parasites or endosymbionts) have independently evolved highly compacted,...