A systematically improved high quality genome and transcriptome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni.

• Main Authors: Anna V Protasio (Author), Isheng J Tsai (Author), Anne Babbage (Author), Sarah Nichol (Author), Martin Hunt (Author), Martin A Aslett (Author), Nishadi De Silva (Author), Giles S Velarde (Author), Tim J C Anderson (Author), Richard C Clark (Author), Claire Davidson (Author), Gary P Dillon (Author), Nancy E Holroyd (Author), Philip T LoVerde (Author), Christine Lloyd (Author), Jacquelline McQuillan (Author), Guilherme Oliveira (Author), Thomas D Otto (Author), Sophia J Parker-Manuel (Author), Michael A Quail (Author), R Alan Wilson (Author), Adhemar Zerlotini (Author), David W Dunne (Author), Matthew Berriman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Schistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases, affecting millions of people in developing countries. Amongst the human-infective species, Schistosoma mansoni is also the most commonly used in the laboratory and here we present the systematic improvement of its draft genome. We used...