Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Mansonella perstans

Matthew Chung; Jain Aluvathingal; Robin E Bromley; Suvarna Nadendla; Fanny F Fombad; Chi A Kien; Narcisse V T Gandjui; Abdel J Njouendou; Manuel Ritter; Lisa Sadzewicz; Luke J Tallon; Samuel Wanji; Achim Hoerauf; Kenneth Pfarr; Julie C Dunning Hotopp

doi:10.1128/MRA.00490-20

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Mansonella perstans

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jul 23;9(30):e00490-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00490-20.

Authors

Matthew Chung¹, Jain Aluvathingal¹, Robin E Bromley¹, Suvarna Nadendla¹, Fanny F Fombad^{2

3}, Chi A Kien^{2

3}, Narcisse V T Gandjui^{2

3}, Abdel J Njouendou^{2

3}, Manuel Ritter⁴, Lisa Sadzewicz¹, Luke J Tallon¹, Samuel Wanji^{2

3}, Achim Hoerauf^{4

5}, Kenneth Pfarr^{4

5}, Julie C Dunning Hotopp^{6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and the Environment, Buea, Cameroon.
³ Parasite and Vector Research Unit, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
⁴ Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁵ German Center for Infection Research, Bonn-Cologne Partner Site, Bonn, Germany.
⁶ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA jdhotopp@som.umaryland.edu.
⁷ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁸ Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

The 13,647-bp complete mitochondrial genome of Mansonella perstans was sequenced and is syntenic to the mitochondrial genome of Mansonella ozzardi Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome is consistent with the known phylogeny of ONC5 group filarial nematodes.

Grants and funding

U19 AI110820/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States