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The Schistosoma mansoni Project


Secretary to the project

David Johnston
NHM, London
email daj@nhm.ac.uk


The Schistosoma mansoni Gopher Site


An image of the Schisto fluorescence map


The Official report of the 1996 Meeting of the WHO Schistosoma Genome Network

Check the Schisto directory of the parasite genome ftp site


Karyotype mapping

This is being performed by fluorescent in situ mapping of YACS ans cosmids to chromosome spreads.

Physical map

EST sequencing

(Brasil)
1,632 ESTs have been generated and deposited in dbEST, and many more are in the pipeline.

Genome Sequencing


08/10/1996