• Cui, Yujun; Schmid, Boris Valentijn; Cao, Hanli; Dai, Xiang; Du, Zhongmin; Easterday, William Ryan; Fang, Haihong; Guo, Chenying; Huang, Shanqian; Liu, Wanbing; Qi, Zhizhen; Song, Yajun; Tian, Huaiyu; Wang, Min; Wu, Yarong; Xu, Bing; Yang, Chao; Yang, Jing; Yang, Xianwei; Zhang, Qingwen; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Zhang, Yujiang; Stenseth, Nils Christian; Yang, Ruifu (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Yersinia pestis is transmitted from fleas to rodents when the bacterium develops an extensive biofilm in the foregut of a flea, starving it into a feeding frenzy, or, alternatively, during a brief period directly after ...
  • Solbakken, Monica Hongrø; Voje, Kjetil L.; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Host-intrinsic factors as well as environmental changes are known to be strong evolutionary drivers defining the genetic foundation of immunity. Using a novel set of teleost genomes and a time-calibrated phylogeny, we here ...
  • Solbakken, Monica Hongrø; Rise, Matthew L.; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Jentoft, Sissel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    Great genetic variability among teleost immunomes, with gene losses and expansions of central adaptive and innate components, has been discovered through genome sequencing over the last few years. Here, we demonstrate that ...
  • Nilsson, Pernille; Solbakken, Monica Hongrø; Schmid, Boris Valentijn; Orr, Russell; Lv, Ruichen; Cui, Yujun; Song, Yajun; Zhang, Yujiang; Baalsrud, Helle Tessand; Tørresen, Ole K.; Stenseth, Nils Christian; Yang, Ruifu; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Easterday, William Ryan; Jentoft, Sissel (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Abstract The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a social rodent living in permanent, complex burrow systems distributed throughout Central Asia, where it serves as the main host of several important vector-borne ...