Genome analysis of the fatal tapeworm Sparganum proliferum unravels the cryptic lifecycle and mechanisms underlying the aberrant larval proliferation
Taisei Kikuchi, Mehmet Dayı, Vicky L. Hunt, Kenji Ishiwata, Atsushi Toyoda, Asuka Kounosu, Simo Sun, Yasunobu Maeda, Yoko Kondo, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Óscar Noya, Somei Kojima, Toshiaki Kuramochi, Haruhiko Maruyama
The paper sequences the genome of Sparganum proliferum and analyzes its transcriptome to uncover its unique lifecycle and pathogenic mechanisms.
Communications Biology · May 31, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics