Species: Brugia malayi

Parent taxon: Brugia

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:6279

Description: lymphatic filarial parasite of humans

BClade: Bclade III

Interested people: Mark Blaxter, Elodie Ghedin

Genome size: 90 Mb

Genome size source: nuclear staining, single copy gene hybridisation

Genome AT%: 72 %

Genome AT% source: genome sequence

Genome Publications: PMID:17885136 PMID:15780005 PMID:15099548 PMID:10731564

Transcriptome Publications: PMID:16824625 PMID:15992941 PMID:11925998 PMID:10593179 PMID:8784774

Strain Sequencing Status

This section has sequencing information about strains of this species.

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Strain Genome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Brugia malayi TRS	published	Elodie Ghedin	NIH		J Craig Venter Institute	shotgun sequenced from small insert libraries; scaffolded using BAC library end sequences	http://www.wormbase.org/db/gb2/gbrowse/b_malayi ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/species/b_malayi/	1X

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Brugia malayi TRS	complete		Wellcome Trust	Blaxter lab University of Edinburgh Mitreva lab WUSTL		NEMBASE4: clusterid BMC, updated 08/2008, 25 libraries, 9,961 clusters, 25,844 ESTs	http://www.nematodes.org/nembase4	1X

Phylogenetic context