Nematode Net

News & Announcements February 2008

In 2007, the number of external users visiting Nematode.net reached 44,143 with 4,970 users with multiple visits.

Continuous development and improvement on the Gbrowse cluster pages.

EST clustering and NemaPath annotations for 3 new species - Trichuris muris, Onchocerca flexuosa and Ditylenchus africanus.

Regeneration of EST clusters for 2 species with additional EST data: Radopholus similis and Globodera rostochiensis.

New publications:

Abubucker S, Martin J, Yin Y, Fulton L, Yang SP, Hallsworth-Pepin K, Johnston JS, Hawdon J, McCarter JP, Wilson RK, Mitreva M, The canine hookworm genome: Analysis and classification of Ancylostoma caninum survey sequences, Mol Biochem Parasitol, 2008 Feb; 157(20:187-92 (link)

Elling AA, Mitreva M, Recknor J, Gal X, Martin J, Maier TR, McDermott JP, Hewezi T, McK Bird D, Davis EL, Hussey RS, Nettleton D, McCarter JP, Baum TJ, Divergent evolution of arrested development in the dauer stage of Caenorhabditis elegans and the infective stage of Heterodera glycines, Genome Biology, 2007 Oct 5;8(10):R211(link)

Ghedin E et al., Draft Genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi, Science, 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1756-60 (link)

Laha T, Loukas A, Wattanasatitarpa S, Somprakhon J, Kewgral N, Sithithaworn P, Kaewkes S, Mitreva M, Brindley PJ, The bandit, a new DNA transposon from a Hookworm-Possible Horizontal Genetic Transfer between Host and Parasite, PLos Negl Trop Dis., 2007 Sep 27;1(1) (link)

Please note that our lab is a sequencing facility; we are not clinicians, and as such we are not qualified to provide medical advice regarding parasitic nematode afflictions. If you are in need of such assistance, please instead contact a qualified physician, preferably one with a specialty in parasitic diseases.

Species Quick Links

Ancylostoma caninum	Ancylostoma ceylanicum	Ancylostoma duodenale	Ascaris lumbricoides	Ascaris suum	Brugia malayi
Caenorhabditis briggsae	Caenorhabditis elegans	Caenorhabditis japonica	Caenorhabditis PB2801	Caenorhabditis remanei	Dirofilaria immitis
Ditylenchus africanus	Globodera pallida	Globodera rostochiensis	Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	Haemonchus contortus	Heterodera glycines
Heterodera schachtii	Litomosoides sigmodontis	Meloidogyne arenaria	Meloidogyne chitwoodi	Meloidogyne hapla	Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne javanica	Meloidogyne paranaensis	Necator americanus	Nippostrongylus brasiliensis	Onchocerca ochengi	Onchocerca flexuosa
Onchocerca volvulus	Ostertagia ostertagi	Parastrongyloides trichosuri	Pratylenchus penetrans	Pratylenchus vulnus	Pristionchus pacificus
Radopholus similis	Strongyloides ratti	Strongyloides stercoralis	Teladorsagia circumcincta	Toxocara canis	Trichinella spiralis
Trichuris muris	Trichuris trichiura	Trichuris vulpis	Wuchereria bancrofti	Xiphinema index	Zeldia punctata