Species: Dirofilaria immitis

Parent taxon: Dirofilaria

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:6287

Description: filarial parasite of canids

BClade: Bclade III

Interested people: Mark Blaxter, Barton Slatko, Claudio Bandi, Jeremy Foster

Genome size: 90 Mb

Genome size source: comparison to Brugia malayi

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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
Dirofilaria immitis Edinburgh/TRS/Basel	in annotation	Mark Blaxter		BlaxterLab University of Edinburgh Maser Lab Basel	The GenePool Fasteris	10/2010: In collaboration with Adrian Wolstenholme, we are sequencing the genome of the TRS 'strain' of D. immitis. 06/2011 Ongoing: The genome is now being sequenced in collaboration with Pascal Maser, Basel, and Daniel Nielsson, Stockholm. They have added sequence data from an Italian isolate.	http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast	0

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Dirofilaria immitis Edinburgh/TRS/Basel	complete	Mark Blaxter			GenePool	NEMBASE4: clusterid DIC, updated 08/2008, 2 libraries, 1,788 clusters, 3,762 ESTs 2011 Illumina RNASeq Libraries from adult male and adult female to generate transcriptome profile		0

Phylogenetic context