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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 12, Pages 555-564Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.09.003
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- Wellcome Trust
- US National Institutes of Health [AI-056273]
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- Sandler Foundation
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Schistosoma genomes provide a comprehensive resource for identifying the molecular processes that shape parasite evolution and for discovering novel chemotherapeutic or immunoprophylactic targets. Here, we demonstrate how intragenus and intergenus comparative genomics can be used to drive these investigations forward, illustrate the advantages and limitations of these approaches and review how post-genomic technologies offer complementary strategies for genome characterisation. Although sequencing and functional characterisation of other schistosome/platyhelminth genomes continues to expedite anthelmintic discovery, we contend that future priorities should equally focus on improving assembly quality, and chromosomal assignment, of existing schistosome/platyhelminth genomes.
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