Scalable Assembly of Ascaris Mitogenomes from Whole-Genome Data Reveals a Novel Clade
Lauren Woolfe, Kezia Kozel, Poom Adisakwattana, Allen Jethro I. Alonte, Kennesa Klariz R. Llanes, Alexandra Juhász, J. Russell Stothard, Christina Strübe, Marie‐Kristin Raulf, Scott P. Lawton, Toby Landeryou, Vachel Gay V. Paller, Umer Naveed Chaudhry, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, Martha Betson
The paper presents a bioinformatic pipeline for assembling Ascaris mtDNA from low-coverage whole-genome data, revealing a novel clade (Clade D) in human samples from Ethiopia.
Scientific Reports · Sep 11, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics