Nematode Net

Onchocerca volvulus & Onchocerca ochengi	Photo Credit: http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/ImageLibrary/Filariasis_il.asp?body=A-F/Filariasis/body_Filariasis_il_th.htm
Common Name:	African Riverblindness nematodes - Clade III
Disease:	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.
Libraries:	contact Steve Williams, Smith College
Available ESTs:	14,922
Planned ESTs:	completed
NemaGene Cluster Status:	none planned
Sequencing:	Smith College (Williams Laboratory)
GSC Collaborators:	Biology and Epidemiology TIGR Onchocercha Gene Index
Links:
Contact:	Steve Williams, Smith College
Reference:	Reference

Ancylostoma caninum	Ancylostoma ceylanicum	Ancylostoma duodenale	Ascaris lumbricoides	Ascaris suum	Brugia malayi
Caenorhabditis briggsae	Caenorhabditis elegans	Caenorhabditis japonica	Caenorhabditis PB2801	Caenorhabditis remanei	Dirofilaria immitis
Ditylenchus africanus	Globodera pallida	Globodera rostochiensis	Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	Haemonchus contortus	Heterodera glycines
Heterodera schachtii	Litomosoides sigmodontis	Meloidogyne arenaria	Meloidogyne chitwoodi	Meloidogyne hapla	Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne javanica	Meloidogyne paranaensis	Necator americanus	Nippostrongylus brasiliensis	Onchocerca ochengi	Onchocerca flexuosa
Onchocerca volvulus	Ostertagia ostertagi	Parastrongyloides trichosuri	Pratylenchus penetrans	Pratylenchus vulnus	Pristionchus pacificus
Radopholus similis	Strongyloides ratti	Strongyloides stercoralis	Teladorsagia circumcincta	Toxocara canis	Trichinella spiralis
Trichuris muris	Trichuris trichiura	Trichuris vulpis	Wuchereria bancrofti	Xiphinema index	Zeldia punctata