Table 2. Survey of the genomic projects for Invertebrates Vectors of Human Pathogens.
For each organism, the availability of the following data is shown: Expressed Sequence Tags (‘ESTs’), large scale genomic sequencing (‘Traces’), assembly of traces into scaffolds or chromosomes (‘Assembly’), and gene set (‘Gene set’). The organisations displaying the data or the consortium coordinating the project and the main references (genome paper or white paper) are indicated.
| Organism | ESTs | Traces | Assembly | Gene set | Coordination group(s) | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anopheles gambiae | Y [1] [5] | Y [1] [5b] | Y [1] | YY [1] | VectorBase [1] | (Holt et al., 2002) |
| Aedes aegypti | Y [1] [5] | Y [5b] | Y [1] | YY [1] | VectorBase [1] | (Nene et al., 2007) |
| Culex pipiens | Y [1] | Y [1] [5b] | Y [1] | Near completion [1– 3] | BROAD, VectorBase JCVI [1– 3] | white paper[11] |
| Pediculus humanus | Y [1] | Y [5b] | Y [1] | Near completion [1,2] | JCVI, VectorBase [1,2] | white paper[11] |
| Ixodes scapularis | Y [1] | Y [1] [5b] | Y | N | IISSC [6] | white paper[11] (Pagel Van Zee et al., 2007) |
| Anopheles gambiae M & S forms | N | Y [5b] | Near completion | N | GSC-WashU, JCVI VectorBase, AGCC [1,1,4, 10] | white paper[11] |
| Rhodnius prolixus | Y [1] | on-going [5b] | N | N | RRC [7] | white paper[11] |
| Glossina morsitans | Y [1] [5] | on-going [5b] | N | N | IGGI [8] | white paper[11] |
| Phlebotomus papatasi | Y [1] | N | N | N | SFGSC [9] | white paper[11] |
| Lutzomyia longipalpis | Y [1] [5] | N | N | N | SFGSC [9] | white paper[11] |
Y: yes - N: no - YY: update of the genome annotation.
VectorBase: http://www.vectorbase.org/
J.Craig Venter Institute (JCVI): http://www.tigr.org/
The BROAD Institute: http://www.broad.mit.edu/
Genome Sequencing Centre – Washington University (GSC-WashU): http://genome.wustl.edu/
NCBI (dbEST): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST
NCBI (traces): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces
International Ixodes scapularis Sequencing Committee (IISC): http://www.entm.purdue.edu/igp/overview.html
Rhodnius Research Community (RRC): no website at the time of writing.
International Glossina Genome Initiative (IGGI): http://iggi.sanbi.ac.za/
Sand Fly Genome Sequencing Consortium (SFGSC): no website at the time of writing.
Anopheles Genomes Cluster Committee (AGCC): no website at the time of writing.
White papers available at VectorBase: http://www.vectorbase.org/Docs/ShowDoc/?doc=WhitePapers