Schistosoma mansoni repetitive sequences

For assembly version 3.1 (scaffold level):

For assembly version 5.2 (chromosome level):

Please cite:

Lepesant, J.M., Roquis, D., Emans, R., Cosseau, C., Arancibia, N., Mitta, G. and Grunau, C.: Combination of de novo assembly of massive sequencing reads with classical repeat prediction improves identification of repetitive sequences in Schistosoma mansoni. Exp Parasitol (2012) [PubMed] [ScienceDirect]


Female-specific repeats (more than 99% are on W-chromosome):

Please cite:

Lepesant, J.M., Cosseau, C., Boissier, J., Freitag, M., Portela, J., Climent, D., Perrin, C., Zerlotini, A. and Grunau, C.: Chromatin structure changes around satellite repeats on the Schistosoma mansoni female sex chromosome suggest a possible mechanism for sex chromosome emergence. Genome Biol 13 (2012) R14.[PubMed]


SNPs in S. mansoni strains GH2 and Bre:

  • SmBre FreeBayes vcf-file
  • SmGH2 FreeBayes vcf-file
  • SmBre tar.gz archive of mpileup-files by chromosome
  • SmGH2 tar.gz archive of mpileup-files by chromosome

Please cite:

Clement, J. A. et al. Private Selective Sweeps Identified from Next-Generation Pool-Sequencing Reveal Convergent Pathways under Selection in Two Inbred Schistosoma mansoni Strains. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 7, e2591 (2013).[PubMed]


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