Plasmodia comparative genomics

Syntenic dotplot of Plasmodium falciparum (x-axis) and Plasmodium knowlesi (y-axis). Results can be regenerated at: http://synteny.cnr.berkeley.edu/CoGe/SynMap.pl?dsgid1=7949;dsgid2=2465;c=4;D=20;g=10;A=5;Dm=0;gm=0;w=0;b=1;ft1=1;ft2=1;do1=1;do2=1;do=40;dt=geneorder

Histogram of CDS GC content for Plasmodium falciparum. Generated by OrganismView

Histogram of CDS GC content for Plasmodium knowlesi. Generated by OrganismView

Log-odds score substitution matrix of codons between Plasmodium falciparum (x-axis) and Plasmodium knowlesi (y-axis). P. falciparum is a low-GC genome and P. kowlesi is a mid-GC genome.

The genomes of two Plasmodium species, falciparum and knowlesi are structurally very similar to one another:

Organism

Chromosome count

Genome Length

CDS count

Genome GC content

CDS GC content

CDS Wobble position content

non-coding GC content

Plasmodium falicparum

14

22,860,235 bp

5267

19.88%

23.72%

17.30%

14.58%

Plasmodium knowlesi

14

23,462,187 bp

5102

38.94%

40.23%

45.56%

35.12% }