The genome of the heartworm Dirofilaria immitis has been added to the upcoming WS240 release of WormBase. The data shown is based on the latest version of the genome and geneset provided by the Blaxter lab in Edinburgh.
D.immitis is an important parasite of dogs and transmitted by mosquitos in warmer climate zones (especially throughout southern Europe and the Americas) and is also commonly known as dog heart worm.
Panagrellus redivivus, a free-living nematode often used to study evolution of developmental and behavioural processes in C.elegans has been added to the WS240 release of WormBase.
While its main importance for WormBase is for evolutionary conservation of pathways,P.redivivus is also used as easy to breed microworm feed in aquaculture.
We would like to thank Marissa Macchietto for providing us the data which is also available at the INSDC and as published in Genetics.
Based on feedback from the nematode community, WormBase will do a themed release for WS241, which will focus on the curation of protein unfolding response processes.
This will include new publications, ontologies, interactions, gene models and more.
During the course of the curation effort, 412 genes of C.elegans / C.remanei / C.briggsae / C.japonica / C.brenneri and B.malayi have been investigated.