Trypanosoma equiperdum (GCA_001457755.2) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Trypanosoma equiperdum

Τrypanosoma equiperdum is a species of kinetoplastid parasites that causes Dourine or covering sickness in horses and other animals in the family equidae. T. equiperdum is the only trypanosome that is not spread by an insect vector. T. equiperdum is unique in that its kinetoplast, the network of connected rings that make up its mitochondrial DNA, consists of thousands of
"minicircles
" that are identical in sequence.

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General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.