Species

Plasmodium falciparum Ghanaian Isolate

Plasmodium falciparum (Species Group)

[ Alveolata | Apicomplexa | Aconoidasida | . . .
. . . | Plasmodiidae | Plasmodium | Plasmodium (Laverania) ]

Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Alveolata | Apicomplexa | Aconoidasida | Haemosporida | Plasmodiidae | Plasmodium | Plasmodium (Laverania) Common: malaria parasite P. falciparum Comment: The most deadly of the four Plasmodium species that cause human malaria is the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (5833) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: The Gene Index Project: DFCI P.falciparum Gene Index The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: Plasmodium falciparum Genome Projects Publication: Jeffares DC, Pain A, Berry A et. al. (2007) Genome variation and evolution of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Nat Genet 39, 120-125. 10.1038/ng1931 Genome files The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Contigs v 0.1.0 2004-12-14 8 28.0 31.2 13945 - 2 - Contigs v 0.2.0 2005-01-12 8 27.9 31.9 14184 - 2 - Contigs v 0.3.0 2005-08-17 - 28.1 32.7 14459 - 2 - Contigs v 0.4.0 2005-09-01 - 29.0 38.3 17082 - 2 - Contigs v 0.5.0 2006-01-09 8 29.0 38.3 17076 - 2 - Contigs v 0.6.0 2006-12-31 8 29.2 43.3 18768 - 2 - Contigs v 0.7.0 2008-03-02 - 29.2 43.2 18711 - 2 -