Toxoplasma gondii - GCA_000006565.2 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Toxoplasma gondii

Toxoplasma gondii is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis. Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals, but members of the cat family (felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.

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

Assembly

The T. gondii genome is ~70 Mb in size and consists of 14 chromosomes. The T. gondii genome, like many other apicomplexan parasites possess a nonphotosynthetic plastid, referred to as the apicoplast. The assembly presented has been imported from INSDC.

Annotation

The annotation has been imported from VEuPathDB.

References

1. ToxoDB: accessing the Toxoplasma gondii genome.
   Kissinger JC, Gajria B, Li L, Paulsen IT, Roos DS. 2003. Nucleic Acids Res.. 31:234-236.