The Sanger Insitute has used high-throughput transcriptome sequencing (mRNA-seq) to determine the transcriptome of T. gondii VEG strain tachyzoites. The goal of this project is to determine differences between T. gondii and the similar parasite Neospora caninum.

The T. gondii genome was sequenced by the J Craig Venter Insitute and is available from ToxoDB.

• Common inheritance of chromosome Ia associated with clonal expansion of Toxoplasma gondii.

  Khan A, Böhme U, Kelly KA, Adlem E, Brooks K, Simmonds M, Mungall K, Quail MA, Arrowsmith C, Chillingworth T, Churcher C, Harris D, Collins M, Fosker N, Fraser A, Hance Z, Jagels K, Moule S, Murphy L, O'Neil S, Rajandream MA, Saunders D, Seeger K, Whitehead S, Mayr T, Xuan X, Watanabe J, Suzuki Y, Wakaguri H, Sugano S, Sugimoto C, Paulsen I, Mackey AJ, Roos DS, Hall N, Berriman M, Barrell B, Sibley LD and Ajioka JW

  Genome research 2006;16;9;1119-25

  PUBMED: 16902086; PMC: 1557770; DOI: 10.1101/gr.5318106