Species

Plasmodium vivax North Korean

[ Alveolata | Apicomplexa | Aconoidasida | . . .
. . . | Plasmodium | Plasmodium (Plasmodium) | Plasmodium vivax ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Alveolata | Apicomplexa | Aconoidasida | Haemosporida | Plasmodiidae | Plasmodium | Plasmodium (Plasmodium) | Plasmodium vivax Synonym: Plasmodium vivax strain North Korea, North Korean strain of Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium vivax North Korea Comment: Plasmodium vivax, the second most important causal agent of human malaria, is the most geographically distributed of the malaria parasites and is responsible for the development of a clinically less severe disease, when compared to P. falciparum malaria. P. vivax malaria is indistinguishable from P. falciparum malaria, yet it usually does not progress to a range of life-threatening manifestation. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (1035514) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Protozoa genomes Publication: Neafsey DE, Galinsky K, Jiang RH et. al. (2012) The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum. Nat Genet 44, 1046-1050. 10.1038/ng.2373 Genome files National Center for Biotechnology Information Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Apicoplast v 1.0.0 2012-01-24 87.6 13.3 0.0 1 - 29 Contigs v 1.0.0 2011-09-14 87.6 40.2 28.8 2499 - 22 Supercontigs v 1.0.0 2011-09-14 87.6 40.2 28.8 541 - 317