Echinococcus granulosus
BioProject PRJNA754835 | Data Source University of Melbourne | Taxonomy ID 6210
About Echinococcus granulosus
The cestode Echinococcus granulosus is a member of the Cyclophyllidea, which comprise the majority of tapeworms that are of medical importance. Adult E. granulosus parasitise the small intestines of dogs and other canids. Larval stages cause the serious and life-threatening human diseases cystic echinococcosis. E. granulosus has a worldwide distribution.
There are 2 alternative genome projects for Echinococcus granulosus available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJEB121 PRJNA182977
Genome Assembly & Annotation
Assembly
The full assembly process is described in Korhonen et al., (2022). PacBio sequence data was assembled using Canu v1.8. The assembly was polished with PacBio raw-reads using Arrow and also with BGISEQ-500 PE reads using Pilon v1.22.
Annotation
The full annotation process is described in Korhonen et al., (2022). Annotation was achieved using InterPro and sequence homology to proteins in the Swiss-Prot, KEGG58 and NCBI NR59 databases using BLASTp (threshold E-value: ≤10−8).
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Key Publications
- Korhonen PK, Kinkar L, Young ND, Cai H, Lightowlers MW, Gauci C, Jabbar A, Chang BCH, Wang T, Hofmann A, Koehler AV, Li J, Li J, Wang D, Yin J, Yang H, Jenkins DJ, Saarma U, Laurimäe T, Rostami-Nejad M, Irshadullah M, Mirhendi H, Sharbatkhori M, Ponce-Gordo F, Simsek S, Casulli A, Zait H, Atoyan H, de la Rue ML, Romig T, Wassermann M, Aghayan SA, Gevorgyan H, Yang B, Gasser RB. Chromosome-scale Echinococcus granulosus (genotype G1) genome reveals the Eg95 gene family and conservation of the EG95-vaccine molecule. Commun Biol, 2022;5(1):199
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Assembly Statistics
Assembly | ASM2155672v1, GCA_021556725.1 |
Strain | EgG1s_protoscolex |
Database Version | WBPS19 |
Genome Size | 172,983,221 |
Data Source | University of Melbourne |
Annotation Version | 2023-09-WormBase |
Gene counts
Coding genes | 9,985 |
Gene transcripts | 9,985 |
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