Subject: Basic medicine
Year: 2011
Type: Article
Type: PeerReviewed
Title: The draft genome of the parasitic nematode Trichinella spiralis
Author: Mitreva, Makedonka
Author: Jasmer, Douglas P.
Author: Zarlenga, Dante S.
Author: Grupa avtori
Abstract: Genome evolution studies for the phylum Nematoda have been limited by focusing on comparisons involving Caenorhabditis elegans. We report a draft genome sequence of Trichinella spiralis, a food-borne zoonotic parasite, which is the most common cause of human trichinellosis. This parasitic nematode is an extant member of a clade that diverged early in the evolution of the phylum, enabling identification of archetypical genes and molecular signatures exclusive to nematodes. We sequenced the 64-Mb nuclear genome,which is estimated to contain 15,808 protein-coding genes,at ~35-fold coverage using whole-genome shotgun and hierarchal map–assisted sequencing. Comparative genome analyses support intrachromosomal rearrangements across the phylum, disproportionate numbers of protein family deaths over births in parasitic compared to a non-parasitic nematode and a preponderance of gene-loss and -gain events in nematodes relative to Drosophila melanogaster. This genome sequence and the identified pan-phylum characteristics will contribute to genome evolution studies of Nematoda as well as strategies to combat global parasites of humans, food animals and crops.
Publisher: Nature America
Relation: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/2480/
Identifier: oai:eprints.ugd.edu.mk:2480
Identifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/2480/1/ng.769.pdfIdentifier: Mitreva, Makedonka and Jasmer, Douglas P. and Zarlenga, Dante S. and Grupa avtori (2011) The draft genome of the parasitic nematode Trichinella spiralis. Nature genetics, 43 (3). pp. 228-236.
