PAST PROJECT

Culex Pipiens Quinquefasciatus Genome Project

The mosquito Culux pipiens quinquefasciatus, a vector for West Nile Virus and other viral encephalitides, will be sequenced in collaboration with the Broad Institute.

Collaborators

Peter W. Atkinson
University of California Riverside

Frank Collins
University of Notre Dame

Najib El-Sayed
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland

Janet Hemingway
School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool

Norman H. Lee
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University School

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