Leishmania major GeneDB

The genome of L. major Friedlin, the reference strain (MHOM/IL/80/Friedlin, zymodeme MON-103), was sequenced as part of a multi-centre collaboration. The genome has been manually annotated and so far more than 8,000 genes have been identified in the ~33.6Mb haploid genome, which is spread over 36 chromosomes. The database is undergoing continual manual annotation and curation.

8370 genes in GeneDB on 11 January 2007
15th July 2005
Tritryp genomes published in Science
28 March 2008
Orthologue links between the Leishmania species updated
15 February 2008
Leishmania mexicana shotgun reads are now available to download from our ftp site and for searching from the L. major blast server.
9 July 2007
Data from expression analysis of promastigote and amastigote life stages included (PMID:17188763)