Journal
INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages 51-55Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.11.002
Keywords
Babesia/babesiosis; Illumina sequencing; Mitochondrial genome; Bioinformatics; Relationships; Systematics
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- PiroVac [KBBE-3-245145]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31072130]
- ASTIP, FRIP [2014ZL010]
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- NBCIS of China [CARS-38]
- Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) [VR0007]
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology Project, China [SKLVEB2008ZZKT019]
- the Australian Research Council (ARC)
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Here, we sequenced, assembled and annotated the mitochondrial (mt) genomes of two operational taxonomic units of Babesia from sheep from China using a deep sequencing-coupled approach. Then, we defined and compared the gene order of these mt genomes (similar to 5.8 to 6.2 kb in size), assessed sequence differences in mt genes among Babesia taxa and evaluated genetic relationships among these taxa and related apicomplexans (Theileria) for which mt genomic data sets were available. We also identified mt genetic regions that might be useful as markers for future population genetic and molecular epidemiological studies of Babesia from small ruminants. We propose that the sequencing-bioinformatic approach used here should be applicable to a wide range of protists of veterinary importance. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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