KEGG   GENOME: Plasmodium falciparum 3D7
Entry
T00095            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
pfa
Name
Plasmodium falciparum 3D7
Category
Reference genome
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:36329
  Lineage
Eukaryota; ; Apicomplexa; Aconoidasida; Haemosporida; Plasmodiidae; Plasmodium; Plasmodium falciparum
Org group
Protists; Alveolates; Apicomplexans
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: protists [BR:br08615]
Data source
RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000002765.6 Complete Genome)
Original DB
PlasmoDB
Stanford U
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H00361  Malaria
Comment
Responsible 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.
Chromosome
1 (RS:NC_004325)
2 (RS:NC_037280)
3 (RS:NC_000521)
4 (RS:NC_004318)
5 (RS:NC_004326)
6 (RS:NC_004327)
7 (RS:NC_004328)
8 (RS:NC_004329)
9 (RS:NC_004330)
10 (RS:NC_037281)
11 (RS:NC_037282)
12 (RS:NC_037284)
13 (RS:NC_004331)
14 (RS:NC_037283)
MT (RS:NC_002375)
AP; Circular (RS:NC_036769)
Statistics
Number of protein genes:        5315
Number of RNA genes:             213
Created
2002
Reference
PMID:12368864
  Authors
Gardner MJ, Hall N, Fung E, White O, Berriman M, Hyman RW, Carlton JM, Pain A, Nelson KE, Bowman S, et al.
  Title
Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
  Journal
Nature 419:498-511 (2002)
DOI:10.1038/nature01097
Reference
PMID:12368867 (chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13)
  Authors
Hall N, Pain A, Berriman M, Churcher C, Harris B, Harris D, Mungall K, Bowman S, Atkin R, Baker S, et al.
  Title
Sequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13.
  Journal
Nature 419:527-31 (2002)
DOI:10.1038/nature01095
Reference
PMID:12368868 (chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14)
  Authors
Gardner MJ, Shallom SJ, Carlton JM, Salzberg SL, Nene V, Shoaibi A, Ciecko A, Lynn J, Rizzo M, Weaver B, et al.
  Title
Sequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14.
  Journal
Nature 419:531-4 (2002)
DOI:10.1038/nature01094
Reference
PMID:12368869 (chromosome 12)
  Authors
Hyman RW, Fung E, Conway A, Kurdi O, Mao J, Miranda M, Nakao B, Rowley D, Tamaki T, Wang F, Davis RW.
  Title
Sequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 12.
  Journal
Nature 419:534-7 (2002)
DOI:10.1038/nature01102
Reference
PMID:10448855 (chromosome 3)
  Authors
Bowman S, Lawson D, Basham D, Brown D, Chillingworth T, Churcher CM, Craig A, Davies RM, Devlin K, Feltwell T, et al.
  Title
The complete nucleotide sequence of chromosome 3 of Plasmodium falciparum.
  Journal
Nature 400:532-8 (1999)
DOI:10.1038/22964
Reference
PMID:9804551 (chromosome 2)
  Authors
Gardner MJ, Tettelin H, Carucci DJ, Cummings LM, Aravind L, Koonin EV, Shallom S, Mason T, Yu K, Fujii C, et al.
  Title
Chromosome 2 sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
  Journal
Science 282:1126-32 (1998)
DOI:10.1126/science.282.5391.1126
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