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Schistosoma bovis

BioProject PRJEB44434 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 6184

About Schistosoma bovis

The trematode Schistosoma bovis is a parasite of sheep, cattle and goats in North Africa, Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East. It exists in the same geographical areas as Schistosoma haematobium, with which it can hybridise. S. bovis-S. haematobium hybrids can infect humans, and have been reported in West African countries, namely Senegal, and during a 2013 outbreak on Corsica.

There is 1 alternative strain from this genome project for Schistosoma bovis available in WormBase ParaSite: tdSchBovi1.1

There is 1 alternative genome project for Schistosoma bovis available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJNA451066

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

This annotated genome assembly was produced as part of the doctoral thesis of Duncan Berger: [Berger, D. (2021). Comparative and population genomic analyses of the parasitic blood flukes (Doctoral thesis)](https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.86667).

The assembly was generated from PacBio long-read sequencing data and scaffolded using Hi-C.

The source material for genome sequencing was 3 mixed-sex adult worms, originally obtained from Kenya in 1986, archived as part of the SCAN collection at the Natural History Museum, London, and provided by Fiona Allan, Aidan Emery and Muriel Rabone. Additional worms from the same collection were used for gene finding.

Annotation

Gene finding employed a customized pipeline that integrated RNA-Seq, Iso-Seq and homology data. Berger, D. (2021). Comparative and population genomic analyses of the parasitic blood flukes (Doctoral thesis).

Assembly Statistics

AssemblytdSchBovi2.1, GCA_944470445.2
StraintdSchBovi2.1
Database VersionWBPS19
Genome Size406,292,391
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version2022-10-WormBase

Gene counts

Coding genes9,673
Gene transcripts20,200

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