KEGG   Plasmodium falciparum 3D7

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T numberT00095
Org_codepfa
NamePlasmodium falciparum 3D7
CategoryReference genome
Annotationyes
TaxonomyTAX: 36329
    LineageEukaryota; Sar; Alveolata; Apicomplexa; Aconoidasida; Haemosporida; Plasmodiidae; Plasmodium; Plasmodium (Laverania)
BriteKEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: protists [BR:br08615]
Data sourceRefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000002765.6 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 148
Original DBPlasmoDB, Stanford U
KeywordsHuman pathogen
DiseaseH00361 Malaria
CommentResponsible for hundreds of millions of cases of malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually.
Intracellular parasites of the genus Plasmodium.
Of the four species of Plasmodium that infect humans, Plasmodium falciparum is the most lethal.
Isolated in The Netherlands.
Chromosome1
    SequenceRS: NC_004325 (GB: AL844501)
    Length640851
Chromosome2
    SequenceRS: NC_037280
    Length947102
Chromosome3
    SequenceRS: NC_000521 (GB: AL844502)
    Length1067971
Chromosome4
    SequenceRS: NC_004318 (GB: AL844503)
    Length1200490
Chromosome5
    SequenceRS: NC_004326 (GB: AL844504)
    Length1343557
Chromosome6
    SequenceRS: NC_004327 (GB: AL844505)
    Length1418242
Chromosome7
    SequenceRS: NC_004328 (GB: AL844506)
    Length1445207
Chromosome8
    SequenceRS: NC_004329 (GB: AL844507)
    Length1472805
Chromosome9
    SequenceRS: NC_004330 (GB: AL844508)
    Length1541735
Chromosome10
    SequenceRS: NC_037281
    Length1687656
Chromosome11
    SequenceRS: NC_037282
    Length2038340
Chromosome12
    SequenceRS: NC_037284
    Length2271494
Chromosome13
    SequenceRS: NC_004331 (GB: AL844509)
    Length2925236
Chromosome14
    SequenceRS: NC_037283
    Length3291936
ChromosomeMT
    SequenceRS: NC_002375 (GB: AJ276844)
    Length5967
ChromosomeAP; Circular
    SequenceRS: NC_036769
    Length34250
StatisticsNumber of nucleotides: 23332839
Number of protein genes: 5315
Number of RNA genes: 213
Created2002
ReferencePMID: 12368864
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Hall N, Fung E, White O, Berriman M, Hyman RW, Carlton JM, Pain A, Nelson KE, Bowman S, et al.
    TitleGenome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalNature 419:498-511 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01097
ReferencePMID: 12368867 (chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13)
    AuthorsHall N, Pain A, Berriman M, Churcher C, Harris B, Harris D, Mungall K, Bowman S, Atkin R, Baker S, et al.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13.
    JournalNature 419:527-31 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01095
ReferencePMID: 12368868 (chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14)
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Shallom SJ, Carlton JM, Salzberg SL, Nene V, Shoaibi A, Ciecko A, Lynn J, Rizzo M, Weaver B, et al.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14.
    JournalNature 419:531-4 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01094
ReferencePMID: 12368869 (chromosome 12)
    AuthorsHyman RW, Fung E, Conway A, Kurdi O, Mao J, Miranda M, Nakao B, Rowley D, Tamaki T, Wang F, Davis RW.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 12.
    JournalNature 419:534-7 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01102
ReferencePMID: 10448855 (chromosome 3)
    AuthorsBowman S, Lawson D, Basham D, Brown D, Chillingworth T, Churcher CM, Craig A, Davies RM, Devlin K, Feltwell T, et al.
    TitleThe complete nucleotide sequence of chromosome 3 of Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalNature 400:532-8 (1999)
DOI: 10.1038/22964
ReferencePMID: 9804551 (chromosome 2)
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Tettelin H, Carucci DJ, Cummings LM, Aravind L, Koonin EV, Shallom S, Mason T, Yu K, Fujii C, et al.
    TitleChromosome 2 sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalScience 282:1126-32 (1998)
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5391.1126