Publications
Advancing Strongyloides Omics Data: Bridging the Gap with Caenorhabditis elegans. Al-Jawabreh, R., Lastik, D., McKenzie, D., Reynolds, K., Suleiman, M., Mousley, A., Atkinson, L. & Hunt, V., 15 Jan (2024). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379, 1894, 22 p., 20220437.
Strongyloides: omics to worm-free populations. Buonfrate, D., Hunt, V. L., Odermatt, P. & Streit, A. (2024). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379, 1894, 20220448.
Syntenic relationship of chromosomes in Strongyloides species and Rhabditophanes diutinus based on the chromosome-level genome assembliesKounosu, A., Sun, S., Maeda, Y., Dayi, M., Yoshida, A., Maruyama, H., Hunt, V., Sugimoto, A. & Kikuchi, T., 15 Jan 2024, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379, 20220446.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Strongyloides questions—a research agenda for the future. Reem Al-Jawabreh , Roy Anderson , Louise E. Atkinson , Jack Bickford-Smith , Richard S. Bradbury , Minka Breloer , Astra S. Bryant , Dora Buonfrate , Luke C. Cadd , Bethany Crooks , Michela Deiana , Warwick Grant , Elissa Hallem , Shannon M. Hedtke , Vicky Hunt , Virak Khieu , Taisei Kikuchi , Asuka Kounosu , Dominika Lastik , Lisette van Lieshout , Yuchen Liu , Henry J. McSorley , Paul McVeigh , Angela Mousley , Ben Murcott , William David Nevin , Eva Nosková , Elena Pomari , Kieran Reynolds , Kirstin Ross , Adrian Streit , Mona Suleiman , Natalia Tiberti and Mark Viney. (2024)
piRNA-like small RNAs target transposable elements in a Clade IV parasitic nematode.
Mona Suleiman, Asuka Kounosu, Ben Murcott, Mehmet Dayi, Rebecca Pawluk, Akemi Yoshida, Mark Viney, Taisei Kikuchi & Vicky L. Hunt. (2022) Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 10156
Genome of the fatal tapeworm Sparganum proliferum uncovers mechanisms for cryptic life cycle and aberrant larval proliferation. Kikuchi, T., Dayi, M., Hunt, V. L., Ishiwata, K., Toyoda, A., Kounosu, A., Sun, S., Maeda, Y., Kondo, Y., de Noya, B. A., Noya, O., Kojima, S., Kuramochi, T. & Maruyama, H., 31 Dec 2021, Communications Biology. 4, 1, 649.
Tanzila Afrin, Kazunori Murase, Asuka Kounosu, Vicky L. Hunt, Mark Bligh, Yasunobu Maeda, Akina Hino, Haruhiko Maruyama, Isheng J. Tsai and Taisei Kikuchi (2019). Sequential Changes in the Host Gut Microbiota During Infection With the Intestinal Parasitic Nematode Strongyloides venezuelensis. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00217
Kanzaki N*, Tsai I J*, TanakaR*, Hunt V L*, Tsuyama K, Liu K, Maeda Y, Woodruff G, Namai S, Kumagai R, Tracey T, Holroyd N, Murase K, Kitazume, Billah M, Ke H, Wang J, BerrimanM, SternbergP, SugimotoA, Kikuchi T (2018). Biology and genome of a newly discovered sibling species of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Communications 9:3216. * these authors contributed equally
Hunt V L (2018). Caenorhabditis inopinata: the unexpected sibling species of C. elegans. https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/121938-vicky-hunt/posts/37637-caenorhabditis-inopinata-the-unexpected-sibling-species-of-c-elegans.
Blog article for Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Hunt V L, Hino A, Yoshida A, Kikuchi T (2018). Comparative transcriptomics gives insights into the evolution of parasitism in Strongyloides nematodes at the genus, subclade and species level. Scientific Reports,8: 5192.
Hunt V L, Tsai I J, Viney M, (2017). The genome of Strongyloidesspp. give insights into protein families with a putative role in parasitism. Parasitology 144 (3) 343-358.
Bayliss S, Hunt V L, Yokoyama M, Thorpe H, Feil E (2017). The use of Oxford Nanopore native barcoding for complete genome assembly. GigaScience, 6(3):1-6.
Hunt V L, Tsai I J, Coghlan A, Reid A J, Holroyd N, Foth B J, Tracey A, Cotton J A, Stanley E J, Beasley H, Bennett H, Brooks K, Harsha B, Kajitani R, Kulkarni A, Harbecke D, Nagayasu E,Nichol S, Ogura Y, Quail M A, Randle N, Xia D, Brattig N, Ribeiro D M, Sanchez-Flores A, Hayashi T,Itoh T, Denver D R, Grant W, Stoltzfus J D, Lok J B, Murayama H, Wastling J, Streit A, Kikuchi T, Viney M, Berriman M. (2016). The genomic basis of parasitism in the Strongyloides clade of nematodes. Nature Genetics,48: 299-307.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3495
Hunt V L, Zhong W, McClure C D, Mlynski D, Duxbury E M L, Charnley A K & Priest N. (2016). Adaptive switch in life history strategy driven by cold-seeking behaviour in infected fruit flies. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85 (1): 178-186.
McClure C D., Zhong W, Hunt V L, Chapman, F M, Hill, F V & Priest N. (2014) Life-history trade-offs and temporary genetic effects underlying pathogen-induced hormesis in the fruit fly. Evolution, 68(8): 2225-2233.
Hunt V L, Charnley A K, Pickering S, Lock G. (2011) Application of infrared thermography to the study to behavioural fever in the desert locust. Journal of Thermal Biology, 36(7): 443-451.
Hunt V L, Charnley A K. (2011) Inhibitory effect of the fungal toxin, Destruxin-A, on behavioural fever in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Insect Physiology, 57(10): 1341-1346.