The Eimeria tenella Houghton strain genome sequencing project is coordinated by a consortium comprising Sanger Center, the Institute of Animal Health, (UK), the University of Sao Paolo and the Malaysia Genome Institute.
The E. tenella genome is about 60 MB in size, is comprised of 14 chromosomes and is being sequenced to 8X coverage using whole genome shotgun together with ~10,000 scaffolding BAC ends. The genome has been assembled into contigs and is presently in the process of annotation.
Genetic linkage mapping studies of E. tenella determined 16 linkage groups which define 12 chromosomes and a further 57 unlinked groups. This data was obtained from Shirley MW and Harvey DA, 2000 Genome Res. 10:1587-93, and is displayed in MapViewer.
A complementary sequencing effort is being carried out by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis. A total of 13,190 ESTs have been generated from this apicomplexan parasite.
In addition to those sequencing efforts, the complete E. tenella apicoplast genome sequence data has been generated and submitted to GenBank by Texas A&M University, Veterinary Pathobiology, USA. Less...