Genomics of Loa loa, a Wolbachia-free filarial parasite of humans

Loa loa, the African eyeworm, is a major filarial pathogen of humans. Unlike most filariae, Loa loa does not contain the obligate intracellular Wolbachia endosymbiont. We describe the 91.4 Mb genome of Loa loa, and the genome of the related filarial parasite Wuchereria bancrofti, and predict 14,907...

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Published in:Nat Genet
Main Authors: Desjardins, Christopher A., Cerqueira, Gustavo C., Goldberg, Jonathan M., Hotopp, Julie C. Dunning, Haas, Brian J., Zucker, Jeremy, Ribeiro, Jose’ M.C., Saif, Sakina, Levin, Joshua Z., Fan, Lin, Zeng, Qiandong, Russ, Carsten, Wortman, Jennifer R., Fink, Doran L., Birren, Bruce W., Nutman, Thomas B.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238225/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23525074
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.2585
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