Helicosporidium sp. ATCC 50920 Genome sequencing and assembly. Helicosporidium sp. ATCC 50920

Helicosporidium sp. ATCC50920 is a parasite of the black fly Simulium jonesi . Its genome is small and compact with an size estimate of 13 Mbp. It shares little gene order conservation with the other green algal genomes, only 30% of the genes located within its ten largest contigs are arrayed in syntenic clusters with those of Chlorella.