Entry
Org code
pfa
Name
Plasmodium falciparum 3D7
Category
Reference genome
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Eukaryota; Sar; Alveolata; Apicomplexa; Aconoidasida; Haemosporida; Plasmodiidae; Plasmodium; Plasmodium (Laverania)
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KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
KEGG organisms: protists [BR:br08615 ]
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Data source
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Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
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
Sequence
Length
640851
Chromosome
2
Sequence
Length
947102
Chromosome
3
Sequence
Length
1067971
Chromosome
4
Sequence
Length
1200490
Chromosome
5
Sequence
Length
1343557
Chromosome
6
Sequence
Length
1418242
Chromosome
7
Sequence
Length
1445207
Chromosome
8
Sequence
Length
1472805
Chromosome
9
Sequence
Length
1541735
Chromosome
10
Sequence
Length
1687656
Chromosome
11
Sequence
Length
2038340
Chromosome
12
Sequence
Length
2271494
Chromosome
13
Sequence
Length
2925236
Chromosome
14
Sequence
Length
3291936
Chromosome
MT
Sequence
Length
5967
Chromosome
AP; Circular
Sequence
Length
34250
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 23332839
Number of protein genes: 5315
Number of RNA genes: 213
Created
2002
Reference
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
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
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
Reference
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
Reference
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
Reference
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
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