KEGG   GENOME: Loa loa (eye worm)
Entry
T02664            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
loa
Name
Loa loa (eye worm)
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:7209
  Lineage
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Ecdysozoa; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Spirurina; Spiruromorpha; Filarioidea; Onchocercidae; Loa
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: animals [BR:br08612]
Data source
RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000183805.2 Scaffold)
BioProject: 60051
Original DB
Broad
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H01104  Loiasis
H02028  Filariasis
Comment
African eyeworm.
Major filarial pathogen of humans.
Not contain the obligate  intracellular Wolbachia endosymbiont.
Purified during a therapeutic apheresis from a patient with loiasis infected in Cameroon.
Statistics
Number of protein genes:       14915
Number of RNA genes:              37
Created
2013
Reference
PMID:23525074
  Authors
Desjardins CA, Cerqueira GC, Goldberg JM, Dunning Hotopp JC, Haas BJ, Zucker J, Ribeiro JM, Saif S, Levin JZ, Fan L, et al.
  Title
Genomics of Loa loa, a Wolbachia-free filarial parasite of humans.
  Journal
Nat Genet 45:495-500 (2013)
DOI:10.1038/ng.2585
Reference
PMID:22530989
  Authors
McNulty SN, Mullin AS, Vaughan JA, Tkach VV, Weil GJ, Fischer PU
  Title
Comparing the mitochondrial genomes of Wolbachia-dependent and independent filarial nematode species.
  Journal
BMC Genomics 13:145 (2012)
DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-13-145
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