Investigating hookworm genomes by comparative analysis of two Ancylostoma species

Makedonka Mitreva^1* , James P McCarter^1,2* , Prema Arasu³ , John Hawdon⁴ , John Martin¹ , Mike Dante¹ , Todd Wylie¹ , Jian Xu¹ , Jason E Stajich⁵ , Wadim Kapulkin^6,7 , Sandra W Clifton¹ , Robert H Waterston^1,8 and Richard K Wilson¹

¹  Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA

²  Divergence Inc., St. Louis, MO 63141, USA

³  College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA

⁴  Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA

⁵  Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA

⁶  Department of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warszawa, Poland

⁷  School of Biology, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, UK

⁸  Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA