Strain of species: Dirofilaria immitis

Reference strain: No

Strain information inferred from Dirofilaria immitis:

Has interested party: Mark Blaxter, Barton Slatko, Claudio Bandi, Jeremy Foster

BClade: Bclade III

Genome Status: in annotation

Symbiont Status: in annotation

Mitochondrion Status: complete

Contact(s): Mark Blaxter

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Institution(s): BlaxterLab University of Edinburgh, Maser Lab Basel

Sequencing Centre(s): The GenePool, fasteris

URL(s): http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast

Plan/Status: 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.

Status: complete

Contact(s): Mark Blaxter

Funder(s):

Institution(s):

Sequencing Centre(s): GenePool

URL(s):

Plan/Status: 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