Schistosoma intercalatum
BioProject PRJEB44434 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 6187
About Schistosoma intercalatum
Schistosoma intercalatum is a parasitic flatworm that infects humans and causes intestinal schistosomiasis. The parasite is found in parts of western and central Africa. It has a complex life cycle, with freshwater snails acting as intermediate hosts and humans as definitive hosts.
There is 1 alternative strain from this genome project for Schistosoma intercalatum available in WormBase ParaSite: tdSchInte2.1
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 a single female adult worm, originally obtained from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997, 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).
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Assembly Statistics
| Assembly | tdSchInte1.1, GCA_944470365.2 |
| Strain | tdSchInte1.1 |
| Database Version | WBPS19 |
| Genome Size | 386,083,432 |
| Data Source | Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| Annotation Version | 2022-10-WormBase |
Gene counts
| Coding genes | 9,676 |
| Gene transcripts | 17,822 |
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