Nematode genome

AE Sluder, SW Mathews, D Hough, VP Ym, CV Mama. The nuclear receptor superfamily has undergone extensive proliferation and diversification in nematodes. Genome Res 9 103-120, 1999. 

Okimoto, R., MacFarlane, J.L., Clary, D.O. and Wolstenholme, D.R. (1992) The mitochondrial genomes of two nematodes, Caenorhabditis elegans and Ascaris suum. Genetics 130, 471-498. 

The effectors of the mammalian host immune attack against filaria include reactive oxygen intermediates. Filarial nematodes express glutathione peroxidase, thioredoxin peroxidase and superoxide dismutase at their surface - enzymes believed to protect the nematode from this attack (Selkirk et al., 1998). A bacterial catalase gene has been identified that most probably derives from the endosymbiont genome (Henkle-Duhrsen et al., 1998) this enzyme may contribute with other enzymes to the protection of both Wolbachia and its nematode host from oxygen radicals. 

C. elegans Genome Sequencing Consortium (1998) Genome sequence of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans a platform for investigating biology. Science 282, 2012-2018. 

Yan, Y., Smant, G., Stokkermans, J., Qin, L., Helder, J., Baum, T., Schots, A. and Davis, E. (1998) Genomic organization of four 5-1,4-endoglucanase genes in plant-parasitic cyst nematodes and its evolutionary implications. Gene 220, 61-70. 

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