KEGG   Plasmodium falciparum 3D7

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EntryT00095
Org codepfa
NamePlasmodium falciparum 3D7
CategoryReference genome
Annotationyes
TaxonomyTAX: 36329
    LineageEukaryota; ; Apicomplexa; Aconoidasida; Haemosporida; Plasmodiidae; Plasmodium; Plasmodium falciparum
Org groupProtists; Alveolates; Apicomplexans
BriteKEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: protists [BR:br08615]
Data sourceRefSeq Assembly: GCF_000002765.6 (Complete Genome)
BioProject: 148
Original DBPlasmoDB, Stanford U
KeywordsHuman pathogen
DiseaseH00361 Malaria
CommentResponsible 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.
Chromosome1 (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)
StatisticsNumber of protein genes: 5315
Number of RNA genes: 213
Created2002
ReferencePMID: 12368864
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Hall N, Fung E, White O, Berriman M, Hyman RW, Carlton JM, Pain A, Nelson KE, Bowman S, et al.
    TitleGenome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalNature 419:498-511 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01097
ReferencePMID: 12368867 (chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13)
    AuthorsHall N, Pain A, Berriman M, Churcher C, Harris B, Harris D, Mungall K, Bowman S, Atkin R, Baker S, et al.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13.
    JournalNature 419:527-31 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01095
ReferencePMID: 12368868 (chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14)
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Shallom SJ, Carlton JM, Salzberg SL, Nene V, Shoaibi A, Ciecko A, Lynn J, Rizzo M, Weaver B, et al.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes 2, 10, 11 and 14.
    JournalNature 419:531-4 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01094
ReferencePMID: 12368869 (chromosome 12)
    AuthorsHyman RW, Fung E, Conway A, Kurdi O, Mao J, Miranda M, Nakao B, Rowley D, Tamaki T, Wang F, Davis RW.
    TitleSequence of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 12.
    JournalNature 419:534-7 (2002)
DOI: 10.1038/nature01102
ReferencePMID: 10448855 (chromosome 3)
    AuthorsBowman S, Lawson D, Basham D, Brown D, Chillingworth T, Churcher CM, Craig A, Davies RM, Devlin K, Feltwell T, et al.
    TitleThe complete nucleotide sequence of chromosome 3 of Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalNature 400:532-8 (1999)
DOI: 10.1038/22964
ReferencePMID: 9804551 (chromosome 2)
    AuthorsGardner MJ, Tettelin H, Carucci DJ, Cummings LM, Aravind L, Koonin EV, Shallom S, Mason T, Yu K, Fujii C, et al.
    TitleChromosome 2 sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
    JournalScience 282:1126-32 (1998)
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5391.1126