Plant-parasitic nematodes are a costly burden of crop production. Ubiquitous in nature,
phytoparasitic nematodes are associated with nearly every important agricultural crop and …

The formation and consequences of polyploidization in animals with clonal reproduction
remain largely unknown. Clade I root-knot nematodes (RKNs), characterized by …

Nematoda is a diverse phylum that is estimated to contain more than a million species. More
than 4,100 of these species have the ability to parasitize plants and cause agricultural …

Nematodes are the only major metazoan group which is persistently abundant and diverse
across marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. This could be the result of a few major …

The potato rot nematode, Ditylenchus destructor, poses a serious threat to numerous root
and tuber crops, yet the functional characterization of effectors from this migratory …

Plant-parasitic nematodes cause extensive annual yield losses to worldwide agricultural
production. Most cultivated plants have no known resistance against nematodes and the few …

Background The root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans is a migratory plant-parasitic
nematode responsible for economically important losses in a wide number of crops. Despite …

The rice root-knot nematode Meloidogyne graminicola has emerged as a devastating pest of
rice in South-East Asian countries. Here we present a draft genome sequence for M …

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) Heterodera glycines is an obligate parasite that relies on the
secretion of effector proteins to manipulate host cellular processes that favor the formation of …

The terminal electron acceptor of most aerobic respiratory chains, cytochrome c oxidase
(COX), has been highly conserved throughout evolution, from aerobic prokaryotes to …