Species

Naegleria fowleri

[cellular organisms | Eukaryota | Heterolobosea | Schizopyrenida | Vahlkampfiidae | Naegleria]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Heterolobosea | Schizopyrenida | Vahlkampfiidae | Naegleria Comment: Naegleria is an ameba commonly found in the environment, in water and soil. Only one species of Naegleria has bee found to infect humans, Naegleria fowleri. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (5763) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Protozoa genomes Publication: Zysset-Burri DC, Muller N, Beuret C et. al. (2014) Genome-wide identification of pathogenicity factors of the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri. BMC Genomics 15, 496. 10.1186/1471-2164-15-496 Genome files National Center for Biotechnology Information Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Contigs v 1.0.0 2013-09-19 70 36.8 27.4 574 - 145