Search Results - "Alagaili, Abdulaziz"
-
1
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia
Published in mBio (25-02-2014)“…The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is proposed to be a zoonotic disease; however, the reservoir and mechanism for transmission of the causative agent,…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
High Prevalence of MERS-CoV Infection in Camel Workers in Saudi Arabia
Published in mBio (30-10-2018)“…Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a highly lethal respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is an emerging disease with high…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (11-08-2023)“…Using DNA methylation profiles ( = 15,456) from 348 mammalian species, we constructed phyloepigenetic trees that bear marked similarities to traditional…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
Microbiome and mitogenomics of the chigger mite Pentidionis agamae: potential role as an Orientia vector and associations with divergent clades of Wolbachia and Borrelia
Published in BMC genomics (17-04-2024)“…Trombiculid mites are globally distributed, highly diverse arachnids that largely lack molecular resources such as whole mitogenomes for the elucidation of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
Molecular Detection of Candidatus Orientia chuto in Wildlife, Saudi Arabia
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-02-2023)“…Scrub typhus is a zoonosis caused by 3 species of Orientia bacteria, including Candidatus Orientia chuto. This species is known only from a human case in Dubai…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
A viral metagenomic survey identifies known and novel mammalian viruses in bats from Saudi Arabia
Published in PloS one (10-04-2019)“…Bats are implicated as natural reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic viruses including SARS and MERS coronaviruses, Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, Rabies and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
Cross-sectional prevalence study of MERS-CoV in local and imported dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia, 2016-2018
Published in PloS one (26-05-2020)“…The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an endemic virus in dromedaries. Annually, Saudi Arabia imports thousands of camels from the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus quasispecies that include homologues of human isolates revealed through whole-genome analysis and virus cultured from dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia
Published in mBio (29-04-2014)“…ABSTRACT Complete Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) genome sequences were obtained from nasal swabs of dromedary camels sampled in the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
Where Do Core Thalamocortical Axons Terminate in Mammalian Neocortex When There Is No Cytoarchitecturally Distinct Layer 4?
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (01-07-2024)“…ABSTRACT Although the mammalian cerebral cortex is most often described as a hexalaminar structure, there are cortical areas (primary motor cortex) and species…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Multilocus approach reveals discordant molecular markers and corridors for gene flow between North African populations of Fasciola hepatica
Published in Veterinary parasitology (01-02-2020)“…[Display omitted] •Novel and common molecular markers support the monophyly of F. hepatica from Tunisia and Algeria.•Pepck multiplex PCR patterns could not…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Seasonal variations in sleep of free-ranging Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) under natural hyperarid conditions
Published in Sleep (New York, N.Y.) (01-05-2018)“…The Arabian oryx lives under hyperarid conditions in the Arabian Desert and exhibits temporal niche switching of activity patterns at a seasonal level. The…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
New insight into genetic variation and haplotype diversity of Fasciola hepatica from Algeria
Published in Parasitology research (1987) (01-04-2019)“…The liver fluke Fasciola hepatica is the main cause of fasciolosis in North Africa leading to significant economic losses and public health problems. In this…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
Infectious diseases epidemic threats and mass gatherings: refocusing global attention on the continuing spread of the Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Published in BMC medicine (07-09-2016)“…Media and World Health Organization (WHO) attention on Zika virus transmission at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2015 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry
Published in Movement ecology (27-03-2017)“…Accelerometers are powerful sensors in many bio-logging devices, and are increasingly allowing researchers to investigate the performance, behaviour, energy…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain: Trade-Off between Body Mass and Number of Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex of Large Carnivoran Species
Published in Frontiers in neuroanatomy (12-12-2017)“…Carnivorans are a diverse group of mammals that includes carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous, domesticated and wild species, with a large range of brain…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
Molecular detection of novel Anaplasmataceae closely related to Anaplasma platys and Ehrlichia canis in the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius)
Published in Veterinary microbiology (30-09-2015)“…•First molecular characterisation of Anaplasmataceae in dromedary camels.•Overall sequence-confirmed Anaplasmataceae prevalence of 30% in healthy…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
Temporal niche switching in Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx ): Seasonal plasticity of 24 h activity patterns in a large desert mammal
Published in Physiology & behavior (01-08-2017)“…Abstract The Arabian oryx, a moderately large mammal that inhabits a harsh desert environment, has been shown to exhibit seasonal variations in activity and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis
Published in Brain Structure and Function (01-01-2015)“…The hippocampus is essential for the formation and retrieval of memories and is a crucial neural structure sub-serving complex cognition. Adult hippocampal…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Seropositivity in Camel Handlers and Their Families, Pakistan
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-12-2019)“…A high percentage of camel handlers in Saudi Arabia are seropositive for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. We found that 12/100 camel handlers and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Global Phylogeographic and Admixture Patterns in Grey Wolves and Genetic Legacy of An Ancient Siberian Lineage
Published in Scientific reports (22-11-2019)“…The evolutionary relationships between extinct and extant lineages provide important insight into species’ response to environmental change. The grey wolf is…”
Get full text
Journal Article