First Draft Genome of the Trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum ingenoplastis through MinION Oxford Nanopore Technology and Illumina Sequencing
Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy, Bertrand Bearzatto, Jérôme Ambroise, Raphaël Helaers, Anzhelika Butenko, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Karina Alessandra Morelli, Helena Lúcia Carneiro Santos, Pascal Brouillard, Philippe Grellier, Jean‐Luc Gala, Miikka Vikkula
Abstract
Here, we present first draft genome sequence of the trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum ingenoplastis. This parasite was isolated repeatedly in the black blowfly, Phormia regina, and it forms a phylogenetically distinct clade in the Trypanosomatidae family.
Topics & Concepts
MinionNanopore sequencingBiologyIllumina dye sequencingGenomeDNA sequencingGeneticsWhole genome sequencingCladeComputational biologyPhylogenetic treeEvolutionary biologyGeneInsect symbiosis and bacterial influencesTrypanosoma species research and implicationsResearch on Leishmaniasis Studies