Schistosoma margrebowiei

BioProject PRJEB44434 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 48269

About Schistosoma margrebowiei

The trematode Schistosoma margrebowiei is a parasite in Africa that has reticulatus group snails as intermediate hosts and a wide range of definitive hosts.

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)) and, from release 18, replaces an older draft assembly GCA_900618395.1.

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 Zambia in 2002, 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).

Key Publications

Assembly Statistics

AssemblytdSchMarg1.1, GCA_944470205.2
StraintdSchMarg1.1
Database VersionWBPS18
Genome Size394,936,775
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version2022-10-WormBase

Gene counts

Coding genes9,780
Gene transcripts19,527

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