title: Annotated draft genome sequences of three species of Cryptosporidium: Cryptosporidium meleagridis isolate UKMEL1, C. baileyi isolate TAMU-09Q1 and C. hominis isolates TU502_2012 and UKH1.
abstract: Human cryptosporidiosis is caused primarily by Cryptosporidium hominis, C. parvum and C. meleagridis. To accelerate research on parasites in the genus Cryptosporidium, we generated annotated, draft genome sequences of human C. hominis isolates TU502_2012 and UKH1, C. meleagridis UKMEL1, also isolated from a human patient, and the avian parasite C. baileyi TAMU-09Q1. The annotation of the genome sequences relied in part on RNAseq data generated from the oocyst stage of both C. hominis and C. baileyi The genome assembly of C. hominis is significantly more complete and less fragmented than that available previously, which enabled the generation of a much-improved gene set for this species, with an increase in average gene length of 500 bp relative to the protein-encoding genes in the 2004 C. hominis annotation. Our results reveal that the genomes of C. hominis and C. parvum are very similar in both gene density and average gene length. These data should prove a valuable resource for the Cryptosporidium research community.
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors: Olukemi O
authors: OO
authors: Ifeonu
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors: Marcus C
authors: MC
authors: Chibucos
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors: Joshua
authors: J
authors: Orvis
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors: Qi
authors: Q
authors: Su
authors: Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea SA2 8QA, UK.
authors: Kristin
authors: K
authors: Elwin
authors: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Fengguang
authors: F
authors: Guo
authors: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Haili
authors: H
authors: Zhang
authors: Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
authors: Lihua
authors: L
authors: Xiao
authors: Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 510640.
authors: Mingfei
authors: M
authors: Sun
authors: Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Public Health Wales Microbiology, Singleton Hospital, Swansea SA2 8QA, UK.
authors: Rachel M
authors: RM
authors: Chalmers
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors: Claire M
authors: CM
authors: Fraser
authors: Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Guan
authors: G
authors: Zhu
authors: Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, Institute of Bioinformatics and Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
authors: Jessica C
authors: JC
authors: Kissinger
authors: Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, MA 01536, USA.
authors: Giovanni
authors: G
authors: Widmer
authors: Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA jcsilva@som.umaryland.edu.
authors: Joana C
authors: JC
authors: Silva
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018503:Genome, Protozoan; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D059467:Transcriptome
keywords: C. hominis TU502_2012; Cryptosporidium; Cryptosporidium baileyi; Cryptosporidium meleagridis; annotation; genome assembly