Plant pathogens have evolved a variety of different strategies that allow them to successfully
infect their hosts. Plant-parasitic nematodes secrete numerous proteins into their hosts …

The origin of plant parasitism within the phylum Nematoda is intriguing. The ability to
parasitize plants has originated independently at least three times during nematode …

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is the nematode responsible for a devastating epidemic of pine
wilt disease in Asia and Europe, and represents a recent, independent origin of plant …

Parasitic nematodes infect one quarter of the world's population and impact all humans
through widespread infection of crops and livestock. Resistance to current anthelmintics has …

Genome evolution studies for the phylum Nematoda have been limited by focusing on
comparisons involving Caenorhabditis elegans. We report a draft genome sequence of …

Phylogenetic relationships within many lineages of the phylum Nematoda remain
unresolved, despite numerous morphology-based and molecular analyses. We performed …

The sea slug Elysia chlorotica acquires plastids by ingestion of its algal food source
Vaucheria litorea. Organelles are sequestered in the mollusc's digestive epithelium, where …

Browse recently published articles in most issues of leading journals, and there will be
mention of ''the worm''. What is this worm, why is it so keenly studied by so many, and what …

Background Nematodes are among the most diverse and abundant metazoans on Earth, but
research on them has been biased toward parasitic taxa and model organisms. Free-living …

Symbiotic animals containing green photobionts challenge the common perception that only
plants are capable of capturing the sun's rays and converting them into biological energy …