Species: Howardula aoronymphium

Parent taxon: Howardula

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:209930

Description: parasite of Drosophilids with very interesting lifecycle

BClade: Bclade IV

Interested people: Mark Blaxter, Sujai Kumar, Georgios Koutsovoulos, John Jaenike

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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
Howardula aoronymphium Jaenike	ongoing	Mark Blaxter		BlaxterLab University of Edinburgh JaenickeLab	The GenePool	06/2011 Ongoing: Bulk Illumina sequencing has been performed, and is unergoing assembly. There is major "contamination" with host (Drosophila putrida) DNA and so we are also draft sequencing D. putrida to be able to negatively select the fly DNA from the nematode.	http://nematodes.org/downloads/959nematodegenomes/blast	0

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Howardula aoronymphium Jaenike	none							0

Phylogenetic context

This species is an interesting parasite of Drosophilids world wide. The adults live in flies that feed on mushrooms, and the larvae infest the mushrooms. It has been studied extensively by John Jaenike, and this project is based on genomic DNA supplied by him.