School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK.
Parasit Vectors. 2012 Apr 7;5:71. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-71.
The genomes of several tsetse-transmitted African trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei brucei, T. b. gambiense, T. vivax, T. congolense) have been sequenced and are available to search online. The trypanosome strains chosen for the genome sequencing projects were selected because they had been well characterised in the laboratory, but all were isolated several decades ago. The purpose of this short review is to provide some background information on the origins and biological characterisation of these strains as a source of reference for future users of the genome data. With high throughput sequencing of many more trypanosome genomes in prospect, it is important to understand the phylogenetic relationships of the genome strains.
几种采采蝇传播的非洲锥虫(布氏锥虫、布氏冈比亚锥虫、布氏罗得西亚锥虫、刚果锥虫)的基因组已经测序,并可在线搜索。用于基因组测序项目的锥虫株是经过精心挑选的,因为它们在实验室中得到了很好的鉴定,但都是几十年前分离出来的。本综述的目的是提供这些菌株的起源和生物学特征的一些背景信息,以供未来基因组数据的使用者参考。随着高通量测序技术的发展,有必要了解基因组菌株的系统发育关系。