Genome Assemblies across the Diverse Evolutionary Spectrum of Leishmania Protozoan Parasites

Wesley C Warren; Natalia S Akopyants; Deborah E Dobson; Christiane Hertz-Fowler; Lon-Fye Lye; Peter J Myler; Gowthaman Ramasamy; Achchuthan Shanmugasundram; Fatima Silva-Franco; Sascha Steinbiss; Chad Tomlinson; Richard K Wilson; Stephen M Beverley

doi:10.1128/MRA.00545-21

Genome Assemblies across the Diverse Evolutionary Spectrum of Leishmania Protozoan Parasites

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Sep 2;10(35):e0054521. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00545-21. Epub 2021 Sep 2.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Data Science and Informatics, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
² Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
³ Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁴ Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁶ Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁷ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁸ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
⁹ McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
¹⁰ The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

We report the high-quality draft assemblies and gene annotations for 13 species and/or strains of the protozoan parasite genera Leishmania, Endotrypanum, and Crithidia, which span the phylogenetic diversity of the subfamily Leishmaniinae within the kinetoplastid order of the phylum Euglenazoa. These resources will support studies on the origins of parasitism.

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