An Alternative Strategy for Trypanosome Survival in the Mammalian Bloodstream Revealed through Genome and Transcriptome Analysis of the Ubiquitous Bovine Parasite Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) theileri

This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F00057X/1 and BB/L02442X/1 to K.M.); the Wellcome Trust grants (103740 and 095831 to K.M., 085256 to M.Ca.); an EU Horizon 2020 award (637765 to S.K.). S.K. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow; M.Cl. and K.T. are recipients of an RCUK-CONFAP research partnership award (BB/M029239/1). Next-generation sequencing and library construction was delivered via the BBSRC National Capability in Genomics (BB/J010375/1) at the Earlham Institute (EI, formerly The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich), by members of the Platforms and Pipelines Group. Bioinformatics support was funded via BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme grant (BB/J004669/1) to the Earlham Institute.