Plasmodium knowlesi - GCA_000006355.3 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Plasmodium knowlesi

Plasmodium knowlesi is a parasite that causes malaria in humans and other primates. It is found throughout Southeast Asia, and is the most common cause of human malaria in Malaysia. Like other Plasmodium species, P. knowlesi has a life cycle that requires infection of both a mosquito and a warm-blooded host. While the natural warm-blooded hosts of P. knowlesi are likely various Old World monkeys, humans can be infected by P. knowlesi if they are fed upon by infected mosquitoes. P. knowlesi is a eukaryote in the phylum Apicomplexa, genus Plasmodium, and subgenus Plasmodium. It is most closely related to the human parasite Plasmodium vivax as well as other Plasmodium species that infect non-human primates.

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

Assembly

The assembly presented has been imported from INSDC.

Annotation

The annotation has been imported from VEuPathDB.

References

1. The genome of the simian and human malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi.
   Pain A, Bhme U, Berry AE, Mungall K, Finn RD, Jackson AP, Mourier T, Mistry J, Pasini EM, Aslett MA et al. 2008. Nature. 455:799-803.