Plasmodium reichenowi

The chimpanzee malaria parasite P. reichenowi is phylogenetically closest to the human parasite P. falciparum. Both parasites differ in vertebrate and invertebrate host specificity, but morphologically and at the gene/protein level, they are quite similar. P. reichenowi has an estimated genome size of 25-27Mb in 14 chromosomes.

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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 a useful comparative genomics resource to complement the Plasmodium falciparum genome. This work is being done in collaboration with Chris Newbold (Oxford) and Mike Turner (Glasgow).

Published Genome Data

Genomic libraries were constructed in the pUC18 vector from P. reichenowi Dennis strain total genomic DNA provided by Alan Thomas at the BPRC (Netherlands).

ALL SEQUENCE DATA IS CURRENTLY PRELIMINARY AND STILL CONTAINS A HIGH LEVEL OF HOST DNA

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Data Use Statement

This sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigator should be obtained before publishing analyses of the sequence/open reading frames/genes on a chromosome or genome scale. See our data sharing policy.

Sequencing enquiries

Please address all sequencing enquiries to: pathinfo@sanger.ac.uk

* quick link - http://q.sanger.ac.uk/xluozi2e