show Abstracthide AbstractThe rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii is an important animalmodel for studying host-parasite interaction and molecular basis of malaria pathogenesis.Although a draft genome of P. yoelii has been published, and assembled chromosomesare available publicly, errors in gene model prediction still exist. With the advances inDNA sequencing technologies and reduction in sequencing costs, genome-wide RNAsequencing (RNA-seq) has become an effective approach to study gene expression andgene expression regulation. Additionally, cDNA sequences can provide experimentalinformation to confirm or correct errors in the predicted gene models based on genomesequence.