Schistosoma haematobium (Urinary blood fluke) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Schistosoma haematobium

Schistosoma haematobium is a species of digenetic trematode, belonging to a group (genus) of blood flukes (Schistosoma). It is found in Africa and the Middle East. It is the major agent of schistosomiasis, the most prevalent parasitic infection in humans. It is the only blood fluke that infects the urinary tract, causing urinary schistosomiasis, and is the leading cause of bladder cancer. The diseases are caused by the eggs.

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000699445.2].

The total length of the assembly is 371394055 bp contained within 666 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 4779868, the scaffold L50 value is 26. Assembly gaps span 950859 bp.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.