Melody S Clark

Summary

Affiliation: British Antarctic Survey
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Antarctic krill 454 pyrosequencing reveals chaperone and stress transcriptome
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e15919. 2011
  2. ncbi Skin healing and scale regeneration in fed and unfed sea bream, Sparus auratus
    Florbela A Vieira
    Comparative and Molecular Endocrinology Group, Centre for Marine Sciences CCMAR, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Genomics 12:490. 2011
  3. ncbi Discovering genes associated with dormancy in the monogonont rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
    Nadav Y Denekamp
    Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa 31080, Israel
    BMC Genomics 10:108. 2009
  4. ncbi Evolution of secretin family GPCR members in the metazoa
    João C R Cardoso
    Centre of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Evol Biol 6:108. 2006
  5. ncbi Persistence of duplicated PAC1 receptors in the teleost, Sparus auratus
    João C R Cardoso
    CCMAR, Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology, University of Algarve, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Evol Biol 7:221. 2007
  6. ncbi How insects survive the cold: molecular mechanisms-a review
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    J Comp Physiol B 178:917-33. 2008
  7. ncbi Low heat-shock thresholds in wild Antarctic inter-tidal limpets (Nacella concinna)
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK
    Cell Stress Chaperones 13:51-8. 2008
  8. ncbi Antarctic marine molluscs do have an HSP70 heat shock response
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK
    Cell Stress Chaperones 13:39-49. 2008
  9. ncbi Surviving extreme polar winters by desiccation: clues from Arctic springtail (Onychiurus arcticus) EST libraries
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
    BMC Genomics 8:475. 2007
  10. ncbi Characterisation of the warm acclimated protein gene (wap65) in the Antarctic plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus)
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    DNA Seq 19:50-5. 2008

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Publications25

  1. ncbi Antarctic krill 454 pyrosequencing reveals chaperone and stress transcriptome
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 6:e15919. 2011
    ..Hence, understanding how this organism functions is a priority area and will provide fundamental data for life history studies, energy budget calculations and food web models...
  2. ncbi Skin healing and scale regeneration in fed and unfed sea bream, Sparus auratus
    Florbela A Vieira
    Comparative and Molecular Endocrinology Group, Centre for Marine Sciences CCMAR, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Genomics 12:490. 2011
    ....
  3. ncbi Discovering genes associated with dormancy in the monogonont rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
    Nadav Y Denekamp
    Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa 31080, Israel
    BMC Genomics 10:108. 2009
    ..The aim of this study was to generate Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) for molecular characterisation of processes associated with the formation of resting eggs, their survival during dormancy and hatching...
  4. ncbi Evolution of secretin family GPCR members in the metazoa
    João C R Cardoso
    Centre of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Evol Biol 6:108. 2006
    ..In this study a comprehensive description of family 2 GPCR evolution is given based on in silico and expression analyses of the invertebrate receptor genes...
  5. ncbi Persistence of duplicated PAC1 receptors in the teleost, Sparus auratus
    João C R Cardoso
    CCMAR, Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology, University of Algarve, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    BMC Evol Biol 7:221. 2007
    ..These receptors belong to family 2 GPCRs and most of their members are duplicated in teleosts although the reason why both persist in the genome is unknown...
  6. ncbi How insects survive the cold: molecular mechanisms-a review
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    J Comp Physiol B 178:917-33. 2008
    ....
  7. ncbi Low heat-shock thresholds in wild Antarctic inter-tidal limpets (Nacella concinna)
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK
    Cell Stress Chaperones 13:51-8. 2008
    ..However, experimental manipulation can provide molecular markers for identifying stress in Antarctic molluscs, provided it is accompanied by environmental validation, as demonstrated here...
  8. ncbi Antarctic marine molluscs do have an HSP70 heat shock response
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK
    Cell Stress Chaperones 13:39-49. 2008
    ..This study shows that this is not the case for other Antarctic animals, with the two molluscs showing an inducible heat shock response, at a level probably set during their temperate evolutionary past...
  9. ncbi Surviving extreme polar winters by desiccation: clues from Arctic springtail (Onychiurus arcticus) EST libraries
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
    BMC Genomics 8:475. 2007
    ..The aim of this project was to generate clones and sequence data in the form of ESTs to provide a platform for the future molecular characterisation of the processes involved in protective dehydration...
  10. ncbi Characterisation of the warm acclimated protein gene (wap65) in the Antarctic plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus)
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    DNA Seq 19:50-5. 2008
    ..antarcticus...
  11. ncbi Triggers of the HSP70 stress response: environmental responses and laboratory manipulation in an Antarctic marine invertebrate (Nacella concinna)
    Melody S Clark
    Biological Sciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    Cell Stress Chaperones 14:649-60. 2009
    ..These results provide intriguing clues not only to the complexity of HSP70 gene expression in response to environmental change but also insights into the stress response of a non-model species...
  12. ncbi Surviving the cold: molecular analyses of insect cryoprotective dehydration in the Arctic springtail Megaphorura arctica (Tullberg)
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK
    BMC Genomics 10:328. 2009
    ..There are no in-depth molecular studies on the underlying cold survival mechanisms in any species...
  13. ncbi Fugu ESTs: new resources for transcription analysis and genome annotation
    Melody S Clark
    MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research, formerly known as the MRC UK HGMP Resource Centre, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK
    Genome Res 13:2747-53. 2003
    ..This is particularly timely with the increasing availability of draft genome sequence from different organisms and the mounting emphasis on gene function and regulation...
  14. ncbi Insights into shell deposition in the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica: gene discovery in the mantle transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB30ET, UK
    BMC Genomics 11:362. 2010
    ..Hence, this species presents as an ideal candidate for studies into the processes of calcium regulation and shell deposition in our changing ocean environments...
  15. ncbi Cold hardening processes in the Antarctic springtail, Cryptopygus antarcticus: clues from a microarray
    Jelena Purać
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
    J Insect Physiol 54:1356-62. 2008
    ..These structural proteins mainly comprised cuticle proteins and provide support for the recent theory that summer SCP variation within Collembola species could be a consequence of moulting, with moulting population having lowered SCPs...
  16. ncbi Genomic characterisation of putative growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor genes in the teleost fish Fugu rubripes
    João C Cardoso
    Fugu Genomics Group, MRC HGMP Resource Centre, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
    DNA Seq 14:129-33. 2003
    ..This is the first time that the genomic organisation of a GHRH receptor gene has been characterised from a nonmammalian vertebrate...
  17. ncbi Fugu orthologues of human major histocompatibility complex genes: a genome survey
    Jennifer G Sambrook
    Fugu Genomics, HGMP Resource Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK
    Immunogenetics 54:367-80. 2002
    ..Comparison with zebrafish substantiates previously observed linkages between class III region orthologues and hints at an ancient conserved class III region...
  18. ncbi Long-term survival of hydrated resting eggs from Brachionus plicatilis
    Melody S Clark
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 7:e29365. 2012
    ....
  19. ncbi Tolerance of Antarctic soil fungi to hydrocarbons
    Kevin A Hughes
    British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, United Kingdom
    Sci Total Environ 372:539-48. 2007
    ..Hyphal dry weight measurements suggested that Mortierella sp. may be able to use dodecane as sole carbon and energy source. Hydrocarbon-degrading Antarctic fungi may have use in future hydrocarbon spill bioremediation...
  20. ncbi Characterisation, expression and promoter analysis of an interleukin 10 homologue in the puffer fish, Fugu rubripes
    Jun Zou
    Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK
    Immunogenetics 55:325-35. 2003
    ....
  21. ncbi Whole-genome shotgun assembly and analysis of the genome of Fugu rubripes
    Samuel Aparicio
    Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore 117609
    Science 297:1301-10. 2002
    ..Conserved linkages between Fugu and human genes indicate the preservation of chromosomal segments from the common vertebrate ancestor, but with considerable scrambling of gene order...
  22. ncbi Novel bioactive parathyroid hormone and related peptides in teleost fish
    Adelino V M Canario
    Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal
    FEBS Lett 580:291-9. 2006
    ..We hypothesise on the basis of phylogenetic and functional analysis that PTH-L could be a fish relic of an ancestral PTH/PTHrP gene...
  23. ncbi Application of comparative genomics in fish endocrinology
    Deborah M Power
    CCMAR, Centre of Marine Sciences, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8000-810 Faro, Portugal
    Int Rev Cytol 221:149-90. 2002
    ....
  24. ncbi Xena, a full-length basal retroelement from tetraodontid fish
    Damian E Dalle Nogare
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
    Mol Biol Evol 19:247-55. 2002
    ..The Penelope-Xena lineage is apparently a basal group within the retrotransposons and therefore represents an evolutionarily important class of retroelement...