Saturday 18 July 2009

genome of schistosoma japonicum and mansoni sequenced

The schistosoma japonicum parasite causes human schistosomiasis in china and the philippines.

The genome consists of 8 pairs of chromosomes,7 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes.
There are 397-megabase-base sequences ,13,469 protein-coding genes,6,322 protein families and over 557,000 SNPs.

has receptors for angiotensin III,neoromedin,octopamine and urotensin.

S.Mansoni genome is 363 megabase long,has 11,809 reputed genes,of which 82 are gpcrs

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