Dr Frances Blow
- Bioinformatician (Parasitology)
email:
Frances.Blow@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
Publications
Prior publications
Article
Steven A. Sullivan et al. (2025) Comparative genomics of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis reveals genes involved in spillover from birds to humans Nature Communications Crossref. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61483-w)
Frances Blow, Kate Jeffrey, Franklin Wang-Ngai Chow, Inna A. Nikonorova, Maureen M. Barr, Atlanta G. Cook, Bram Prevo, Dhanya K. Cheerambathur, Amy H. Buck (2024) SID-2 localises to extracellular vesicles in parasitic nematodes and does not function in environmental RNAi Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2024.07.03.599821)
Frances Blow, Amy H Buck (2022) Extracellular vesicles from malaria‐infected red blood cells: not all are secreted equal EMBO reports Crossref. (doi: 10.15252/embr.202255499)
(2022) Genomic diversity across the Rickettsia and 'Candidatus Megaira' genera and proposal of genus status for the Torix group. Nature communications Frances Blow. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30385-6)
Helen R Davison et al. (2021) Large-scale comparative genomics unravels great genomic diversity across the Rickettsia and Ca. Megaira genera and identifies Torix group as an evolutionarily distinct clade Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/2021.10.06.463315)
McMullen JG, Bueno E, Blow F, Douglas AE (2021) Genome-inferred correspondence between phylogeny and metabolic traits in the wild Drosophila gut microbiome. Genome biology and evolution Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab127)
Warring SD, Blow F, Avecilla G, Orosco JC, Sullivan SA, Carlton JM (2021) Small RNAs Are Implicated in Regulation of Gene and Transposable Element Expression in the Protist Trichomonas vaginalis. mSphere Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1128/msphere.01061-20)
Blow F, Bueno E, Clark N, Zhu DT, Chung SH, Güllert S, Schmitz RA, Douglas AE (2020) B-vitamin nutrition in the pea aphid-Buchnera symbiosis. Journal of insect physiology Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2020.104092)
Blow F, Ankrah NYD, Clark N, Koo I, Allman EL, Liu Q, Anitha M, Patterson AD, Douglas AE (2020) Impact of Facultative Bacteria on the Metabolic Function of an Obligate Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis. mBio Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1128/mbio.00402-20)
Blow F, Gioti A, Goodhead IB, Kalyva M, Kampouraki A, Vontas J, Darby AC (2020) Functional Genomics of a Symbiotic Community: Shared Traits in the Olive Fruit Fly Gut Microbiota. Genome biology and evolution Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evz258)
Chung SH, Parker BJ, Blow F, Brisson JA, Douglas AE (2020) Host and symbiont genetic determinants of nutritional phenotype in a natural population of the pea aphid. Molecular ecology Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1111/mec.15355)
(2020) Large-scale and significant expression from pseudogenes in Sodalis glossinidius - a facultative bacterial endosymbiont. Microbial genomics Frances Blow. (doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000285)
Wein T, Romero Picazo D, Blow F, Woehle C, Jami E, Reusch TBH, Martin WF, Dagan T (2019) Currency, Exchange, and Inheritance in the Evolution of Symbiosis. Trends in microbiology Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.05.010)
Frances Blow, Angela E. Douglas (2019) The hemolymph microbiome of insects Journal of Insect Physiology Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.04.002)
Frances Blow, Anastasia Gioti, Ian B. Goodhead, Maria Kalyva, Anastasia Kampouraki, John Vontas, Alistair C. Darby (2019) Functional genomics of a symbiotic community: shared traits in the olive fruit fly gut microbiota Crossref. (doi: 10.1101/590489)
Leng J, Proudman C, Darby A, Blow F, Townsend N, Miller A, Swann J (2018) Exploration of the Fecal Microbiota and Biomarker Discovery in Equine Grass Sickness. Journal of proteome research Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00784)
(2017) Challenging the Wigglesworthia, Sodalis, Wolbachia symbiosis dogma in tsetse flies: Spiroplasma is present in both laboratory and natural populations. Scientific reports Frances Blow. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-04740-3)
(2017) Draft Genome Sequence of Chryseobacterium Strain CBo1 Isolated from Bactrocera oleae Genome announcements Frances Blow. (doi: 10.1128/genomea.00177-17)
(2016) Draft Genome Sequence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia SBo1 Isolated from Bactrocera oleae Genome announcements Frances Blow. (doi: 10.1128/genomea.00905-16)
(2016) Draft Genome Sequence of the Bactrocera oleae Symbiont “ Candidatus Erwinia dacicola” Genome Announcements Frances Blow. ISSN 2169-8287 (doi: 10.1128/genomea.00896-16)
(2016) Evaluation of Lysis Methods for the Extraction of Bacterial DNA for Analysis of the Vaginal Microbiota PLOS ONE Frances Blow. ISSN 1932-6203 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163148)