KEGG   GENOME: Brugia malayi (filaria)
Entry
T01050            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
bmy
Name
Brugia malayi (filaria)
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:6279
  Lineage
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Spirurina; Spiruromorpha; Filarioidea; Onchocercidae; Brugia
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: animals [BR:br08612]
Data source
RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000002995.4 Scaffold)
BioProject: 27801
Original DB
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H01086  Lymphatic filariasis
H02028  Filariasis
Comment
Endemic in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
Major human filarial pathogen that can be maintained in small laboratory animals.
Carries three genomes: nuclear, mitochondrial and that of an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont, Wolbachia.
Statistics
Number of protein genes:       10917
Number of RNA genes:             264
Created
2008
Reference
  Authors
Ghedin E, Wang S, Spiro D, Caler E, Zhao Q, Crabtree J, Allen JE, Delcher AL, Guiliano DB, Miranda-Saavedra D, et al.
  Title
Draft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi.
  Journal
Science 317:1756-60 (2007)
DOI:10.1126/science.1145406

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