Welcome to the Dictyostelium fasciculatum web portal!

This site contains:

  • Genome Browser: For displaying annotations on D. fasciculatum genome.
  • BLAST tool: The updated dictyBase universal dictyostelid blast interface to search for similarities between D. fasciculatum and other genomes
  • Download section : Download genomic sequences, alignments, mapping etc.

The Dictyostelium fasciculatum genes have not been manually curated. Please use the gene predictions and nomenclature based on best bidirectional hits with D. discoideum with caution!

Sample entry points for browsing the D. fasciculatum genome

Genome statistics:

Feature type Number
supercontig 26
contig 35
gene 12430
polypeptide 12213
Feature type Min Max Ave Median
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Source: Thomas Winckler

Phylogeny of 5 Dictyostelid species: constructed from 32 orthologous genes in all species with genome sequence using Entamoeba histolytica as the outgroup. The statistical support for all the nodes is 100%.
By Pauline Schaap & Gernot Gloeckner

The D. fasciculatum genome was sequenced as a collaboration between the
Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, and the University of Dundee.

Please cite:


Heidel, Lawal, Felder, Schilde, Helps, Tunggal, Rivero, John, Schleicher, Eichinger, Platzer, Noegel, Schaap & Glockner (2011) 'Phylogeny-wide analysis of social amoeba genomes highlights ancient origins for complex intercellular communication.' Genome Res. 21: