Plasmodium berghei 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%.

Annotation

Annotation of the P. berghei ANKA genome is provided by GeneDB where the latest sequence data and annotation is constantly updated. Periodic releases are also available from PlasmoDB. PlasmoDB.org hosts genomic and proteomic data (and more) for different species of the parasite eukaryote Plasmodium. It brings together data provided by numerous laboratories worldwide.

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.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.