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Strongyloides venezuelensis

BioProject PRJEB530 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 75913

About Strongyloides venezuelensis

The nematode Strongyloides venezuelensis, or threadworm, is a minute gastro-intestinal parasite found in mouse. S. venezuelensis is a laboratory analogue of the human parasite, S. stercoralis.

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

The draft genome assembly was produced by the Parasite Genomic group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration with the Division of Parasitology at the University of Miyazaki, as part of the WTSI Strongyloididae Nematode Genomes Project, Hunt et al. (2016).

Annotation

The gene predictions were made by the Parasite Genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration with the Division of Parasitology at the University of Miyazaki, as part of the Strongyloididae Nematode Genomes Project, Hunt et al. (2016). An in-house automatic pipeline (based around AUGUSTUS plus MAKER) was used to generate first-pass gene models, and this was followed by a round of targeted manual curation of selected gene families.

Key Publications

  • Hunt VL, Tsai IJ, Coghlan A, Reid AJ, Holroyd N, Foth BJ, Tracey A, Cotton JA, Stanley EJ, Beasley H, Bennett HM, Brooks K, Harsha B, Kajitani R, Kulkarni A, Harbecke D, Nagayasu E, Nichol S, Ogura Y, Quail MA, Randle N, Xia D, Brattig NW, Soblik H, Ribeiro DM, Sanchez-Flores A, Hayashi T, Itoh T, Denver DR, Grant W, Stoltzfus JD, Lok JB, Murayama H, Wastling J, Streit A, Kikuchi T, Viney M, Berriman M. The genomic basis of parasitism in the Strongyloides clade of nematodes. Nat Genet, 2016;48(3):299-307

Assembly Statistics

AssemblyS_venezuelensis_HH1, GCA_001028725.1
Database VersionWBPS19
Genome Size52,178,999
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version2015-05-WormBase

Gene counts

Coding genes16,904
Gene transcripts16,904

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