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Pneumocystis carinii B80 (Pneu_cari_B80_V3)

Pneumocystis carinii B80 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Pneumocystis carinii B80 (GCA_001477545)

Pneumocystis jirovecii (previously P. carinii) is a yeast-like fungus of the genus Pneumocystis. The causative organism of Pneumocystis pneumonia, it is an important human pathogen, particularly among immunocompromised hosts. Prior to its discovery as a human-specific pathogen, P. jirovecii was known as P. carinii.

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the Pneu_cari_B80_V3 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_001477545.1.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_001477545.1, with additional non-coding genes derived from Rfam. For more details, please visit INSDC annotation import.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.

Statistics

Summary

AssemblyPneu_cari_B80_V3, INSDC Assembly GCA_001477545.1,
Database version116.1
Golden Path Length7,661,456
Genebuild byBroad Institute
Genebuild methodImport
Data sourceBroad Institute

Gene counts

Coding genes3,646
Non coding genes49
Small non coding genes49
Gene transcripts3,695