Babesia bovis str. T2Bo (GCA_000165395.1) (ASM16539v1)

Babesia bovis str. T2Bo (GCA_000165395.1) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Babesia bovis str. T2Bo

Babesia bovis is a single-celled parasite of cattle which occasionally infects humans. It is a member of the phylum Apicomplexa, which also includes the malaria parasite. The disease it and other members of the genus Babesia cause is a hemolytic anemia known as babesiosis and colloquially called Texas cattle fever, redwater or piroplasmosis. It is transmitted by bites from infected larval ticks of the order Ixodida. It was eradicated from the United States by 1943, but is still present in Mexico and much of the world's tropics. The chief vector of Babesia species is the southern cattle fever tick Rhipicephalus microplus (formerly Boophilus microplus).

In 2007, the sequence of its genome was announced. Measuring 8.2 million base pairs, its genome is remarkably similar to the genome of Theileria parva, the cause of East Coast fever (theileriosis) in cattle.

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More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.

Statistics

Summary

AssemblyASM16539v1, INSDC Assembly GCA_000165395.1,
Database version111.1
Golden Path Length8,173,701
Genebuild by
Genebuild methodImport
Data sourceThe J. Craig Venter Institute

Gene counts

Coding genes3,703
Non coding genes161
Small non coding genes160
Long non coding genes1
Gene transcripts3,864