ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 979-989.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.06.002

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Advances on Animal Parasitic Helminth Genomics

YANG Yang1, FU Bao-quan1,2*   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology/Key Laboratory Veterinary Public Health of the Ministry of Agriculture/Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China;
    2. Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease, Yangzhou 225009, China
  • Received:2016-12-02 Online:2017-06-23 Published:2017-06-23

Abstract:

Animal (human) parasitic helminthiases are mainly caused by parasitic nematodes, trematodes and cestodes,which are seriously threat to human and animal health, but there are no effective prevent and control measures at the current time. With the rapid development of genome sequencing technology in recent years, increasing numbers of parasitic helminth genomes have been sequenced, the biological characteristics of helminth parasite were deeply analyzed. This paper reviews the present situation of the whole genome sequencing of parasitic helminth, the composition and characteristics of the genomes and the advancement in functional genomics, which will provide the base-data for study of the evolution and pathogenic mechanism of parasitic helminth, and for development of diagnostic methods, new medicines and vaccines for parasitic helminthiasis.

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