Species: Onchocerca volvulus

Parent taxon: Onchocerca

NCBI Taxonomy Page: NCBI txid:6282

Description:

BClade: Bclade III

Interested people: Thomas Nutman, Sara Lustigman, Mark Blaxter

Genome size: 90 Mb

Genome size source: comparison to Brugia malayi

Genome AT%:

Genome AT% source:

Genome Publications:

Transcriptome Publications:

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
Onchocerca volvulus Nutman/Broad	ongoing	Thomas Nutman	NIH NIAID	NIH The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	06/2011: partial 454 data and assembly released to GenBank	http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/genome/filarial_worms/MultiHome.html	0
Onchocerca volvulus WTSI/wild Liberia	ongoing	Matt Berriman Nancy Holroyd	Wellcome Trust	New York Blood Center	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	06/2011: some data generated; awaiting additional samples to continue	http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/downloads/helminths/onchocerca-volvulus.html	0

Strain Transcriptome Sequencing:

Strain	Status	Contact	Funder	Institution	Sequencing Centre	Plan/Status	URL	Reference Strain
Onchocerca volvulus Nutman/Broad	none							0
Onchocerca volvulus WTSI/wild Liberia	none					NEMBASE4: clusterid OVC, updated 08/2008, 10 libraries, 5,144 clusters, 14,791 ESTs		0

Phylogenetic context