Plasmodium yoelii

Plasmodium yoelii yoelii has been isolated from the blood of shiny thicket rats from the Central African Republic, from Brazzaville and from Western Nigeria. Three subspecies are recognized, P. yoelii yoelii, P. yoelii killicki and P. yoelii nigeriensis. The parasite is readily grown in laboratory mice and rats, where it shows a preference for immature red blood cells or reticulocytes.

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This project is ongoing and data for this organism will be made available in due course.

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The P. yoelii 17XNL genome is 23.1 Mb in size, with a karyotype of 14 chromosomes. The G+C content is 22.6%. A draft of the reference genome P. yoelii 17XNL has been published in Carlton et al..

The Pathogen Genomics group is in the process of sequencing P. yoelii YM.

  • Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the model rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii.

    Carlton JM, Angiuoli SV, Suh BB, Kooij TW, Pertea M, Silva JC, Ermolaeva MD, Allen JE, Selengut JD, Koo HL, Peterson JD, Pop M, Kosack DS, Shumway MF, Bidwell SL, Shallom SJ, van Aken SE, Riedmuller SB, Feldblyum TV, Cho JK, Quackenbush J, Sedegah M, Shoaibi A, Cummings LM, Florens L, Yates JR, Raine JD, Sinden RE, Harris MA, Cunningham DA, Preiser PR, Bergman LW, Vaidya AB, van Lin LH, Janse CJ, Waters AP, Smith HO, White OR, Salzberg SL, Venter JC, Fraser CM, Hoffman SL, Gardner MJ and Carucci DJ

    Nature 2002;419;6906;512-9

    PUBMED: 12368865; DOI: 10.1038/nature01099

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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

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