The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Pathogen Genomics group is undertaking partial shotgun sequencing of a number of different species of Plasmodium. This will serve as auseful comparative genomics resource to complement the complete Plasmodium falciparum genome. This work is being done in collaboration with Chris Newbold (Oxford) and Mike Turner (Glasgow).
Published Genome Data
P. gallinaceum genomic DNA was provided by Dr.Thomas McCutchan (NIH/NIAID) and by Dr. J. Vinetz (UCSD) and small insert libraries were constructed in the pUC18 vector. Both ends of the insert are being sequenced to give a three-fold coverage.
-
Malaria parasite development in a Drosophila model.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2000;288;5475;2376-9
PUBMED: 10875925

