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: tdSchInte1.1

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

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	tdSchInte2.1, GCA_944470385.2
Strain	tdSchInte2.1
Database Version	WBPS18
Genome Size	382,498,898
Data Source	Wellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version	2022-10-WormBase

Gene counts

Coding genes	10,022
Gene transcripts	18,101

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