Genomic insights into the origin of parasitism in the emerging plant pathogen Bursaphelenchus xylophilus.

Kikuchi, Taisei; A Cotton, James; J Dalzell, Jonathan; Hasegawa, Koichi; Kanzaki, Natsumi; McVeigh, Paul; Takanashi, Takuma; J Tsai, Isheng; A Assefa, Samuel; J A Cock, Peter; Dan Otto, Thomas; Hunt, Martin; J Reid, Adam; Sanchez-Flores, Alejandro; Tsuchihara, Kazuko; Yokoi, Toshiro; C Larsson, Mattias; Miwa, Johji; G Maule, Aaron; Sahashi, Norio; T Jones, John; Berriman, Matthew

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002219

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Genomic insights into the origin of parasitism in the emerging plant pathogen Bursaphelenchus xylophilus.

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Taisei Kikuchi

James A Cotton

Jonathan J Dalzell

Abstract

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 parasitism in nematodes, ecologically and taxonomically distinct from other nematodes for which genomic data is available. A...

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