PRJEA36577
The causal agent of schistosomiasis
Schistosoma mansoni has a diploid genome of approximately 380 MB, organized in 7 pairs of autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. The original Schistosoma mansoni Genome Project was completed by the Wellcome Sanger Insititute in collaboration with The Institute for Genome Research using a Whole Genome Shotgun sequencing strategy. The draft assembly was subsequently improved first by incorporating Illumina reads from a clonal (single-miracidial) infection and more recently by incorporating long PacBio reads, Hi-C and optical mapping data.