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SUBMITTER: Wang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5036155 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160922
Taenia saginata, Taenia solium and Taenia asiatica (beef, pork and Asian tapeworms, respectively) are parasitic flatworms of major public health and food safety importance. Among them, T. asiatica is a newly recognized species that split from T. saginata via an intermediate host switch ∼1.14 Myr ago. Here we report the 169- and 168-Mb draft genomes of T. saginata and T. asiatica. Comparative analysis reveals that high rates of gene duplications and functional diversifications might have partiall ...[more]