Plasmodium berghei - GCA_900002375.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Plasmodium berghei genome

Plasmodium berghei is one of four malarial parasites that infect rodents. P. berghei infects murine rodents from Central Africa, and are also infectious to laboratory rodents and easily maintained by Anopheles stephensi in the laboratory. It serves as a good model for the human parasites with which it shares many similarities in essential aspects of structure, biochemistry and life cycle.

Assembly

P. berghei has an estimated genome size of 18.5 Mb with a karyotype of 14 chromosomes ranging in size from 0.6 Mb to 3.8 Mb. The G+C content is approximately 22%. The assembly presented has been imported from INSDC.

Annotation

The annotation has been imported from VEuPathDB.

References

1. A comprehensive survey of the Plasmodium life cycle by genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic analyses.
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