Plasmodium berghei - GCA_900002375.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Plasmodium berghei

Plasmodium berghei is a single-celled parasite causing rodent malaria. It is in the Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia.

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

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.
   Hall N, Karras M, Raine JD, Carlton JM, Kooij TW, Berriman M, Florens L, Janssen CS, Pain A, Christophides GK et al. 2005. Science. 307:82-86.