| Entry | T01050 |
| Org code | bmy |
| Name | Brugia malayi (filaria) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:6279 |
| Lineage | Eukaryota; Metazoa; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Onchocercidae; Brugia; Brugia malayi |
| Org group | Animals; other Ecdysozoa; Nematodes |
| 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_000002995.4 Scaffold) |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Disease | H01086 Lymphatic filariasis
H02028 Filariasis |
| Comment | Endemic in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
Major human filarial pathogen that can be maintained in small laboratory animals.
Carries three genomes: nuclear, mitochondrial and that of an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont, Wolbachia. |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 10917
Number of RNA genes: 264 |
| Created | 2008 |
| Reference | PMID: 17885136 |
| Authors | Ghedin E, Wang S, Spiro D, Caler E, Zhao Q, Crabtree J, Allen JE, Delcher AL, Guiliano DB, Miranda-Saavedra D, et al. |
| Title | Draft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi. |
| Journal | Science 317:1756-60 (2007)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145406 |
