| Onchocerca volvulus |
Image Credit: Peter Fischer, PhD
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| African Riverblindness nematodes
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| Clade III
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| Onchocersiasis (African Riverblindness) infects an estimated 18 million people worldwide resulting in 270,000 cases of bilateral blindness and 1 million cases of visual impairment. It is the second most common cause of infectious blindness.
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| Smith College (Williams Laboratory)
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Biology and Epidemiology
TIGR Onchocercha Gene Index
Steve Williams, Smith College
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| Makedonka Mitreva
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NemaGene gene count :11,300 (RNAseq expression data available)
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| Codon Usage table
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| NemaPath
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| mass spec data avaliable
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| Onchocerca volvulus at WormBase
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| Onchocerca volvulus species page at WormBase ParaSite
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| Onchocerca volvulus species page at Nembase4
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| Onchocerca volvulus genome resources at the Sanger Institute
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