Species: Heligmosomoides polygyrus

Parent taxon: Heligmosomoides

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:6339

Description: strongylid gut parasite of rats and mice

BClade: Bclade V

Interested people: Rick Maizels, Mark Blaxter

Genome size: 80 Mb

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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
Heligmosomoides polygyrus lab strain	ongoing	Mark Blaxter Rick Maizels		BlaxterLab Univeristy of Edinburgh MaizelsLab University of Edinburgh	The GenePool	We aim to sequence the genome of the Maizels' lab strain of H. polygyrus to ~80-fold coverage using Illumina 50- and 100-base paired end data.		1X

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Heligmosomoides polygyrus lab strain	ongoing	Rick Maizels Mark Blaxter Tim Geary		MaizelsLab University of Edinburgh GearyLab McGill University Canada	GenePool	Edinburgh: deep coverage of stages and sexes with both 454 FLX Titanium and Illumina RNASeq reads McGill: Transcriptome sequencing from mixed stage males and females		1X

Phylogenetic context

The taxonomy of this species has been revised recently, and there is discussion as to whether the lab strain used by immunologists and parasitologists is H. polygyrus or H. bakeri. Additionally, some authors consider 'bakeri' to be a subspecies of H. polygyrus (i.e. H. p. polygyrus and H. p. bakeri)