Whole genome mapping and re-organization of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Babesia microti isolates.

ABSTRACT: Babesia microti is the primary causative agent of human babesiosis, an emerging pathogen that causes a malaria-like illness with possible fatal outcome in immunocompromised patients. The genome sequence of the B. microti R1 strain was reported in 2012 and revealed a distinct evolutionary path for this pathogen relative to that of other apicomplexa. Lacking from the first genome assembly and initial molecular analyses was information about the terminal ends of each chromosome, and both the exact number of chromosomes in the nuclear genome and the organization of the mitochondrial genome remained ambiguous. We have now performed various molecular analyses to characterize the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of the B. microti R1 and Gray strains and generated high-resolution Whole Genome map

SUBMITTER: Cornillot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3762879 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature