Entamoeba histolytica Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Entamoeba histolytica

Entamoeba histolytica is an anaerobic parasitic amoebozoan, part of the genus Entamoeba. Predominantly infecting humans and other primates causing amoebiasis, E. histolytica is estimated to infect about 35-50 million people worldwide. E. histolytica infection is estimated to kill more than 55,000 people each year. Previously, it was thought that 10% of the world population was infected, but these figures predate the recognition that at least 90% of these infections were due to a second species, E. dispar. Mammals such as dogs and cats can become infected transiently, but are not thought to contribute significantly to transmission.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

Assembly is imported from AmoebaDB, it is also available from the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases under the accession GCA_000208925.2.

Annotation

The data in this site is a direct import from AmoebaDB, The data used in this release corresponds to the release 1.7 from 11-Jan-2012 and can be downloaded from here. Publications using this data should cite the following publication:

EuPathDB: a portal to eukaryotic pathogen databases. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D415-9. Epub 2009 Nov 13

References

1. New assembly, reannotation and analysis of the Entamoeba histolytica genome reveal new genomic features and protein content information.
   Lorenzi HA, Puiu D, Miller JR, Brinkac LM, Amedeo P, Hall N, Caler EV. 2010. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 4:e716.
2. The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
   Loftus B, Anderson I, Davies R, Alsmark UC, Samuelson J, Amedeo P, Roncaglia P, Berriman M, Hirt RP, Mann BJ et al. 2005. Nature. 433:865-868.
3. EuPathDB: a portal to eukaryotic pathogen databases.
   Aurrecoechea C, Brestelli J, Brunk BP, Fischer S, Gajria B, Gao X, Gingle A, Grant G, Harb OS, Heiges M et al. 2010. Nucleic Acids Res.. 38:D415-9.

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More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.