Genomic Insights into the Origin of Parasitism in the Emerging Plant Pathogen Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Kikuchi, Taisei; A. Cotton, James; J. Dalzell, Johnathan; Hasegawa, Koichi; Kanzaki, Natsumi; McVeigh, Paul; Takanashi, Takuma; Jason Tsai, Isheng; Assefa, Samuel; Cock, Peter; D. Otto, Thomas; Hunt, Martin; J. Reid, Adam; Sánchez‐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

Published in PLoS Pathogens • Sep 1, 2011

Authors:

Taisei Kikuchi

James A. Cotton

Johnathan 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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Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Biology

Xylophilus

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