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Nematode & Neglected Genomics
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Nematode & Neglected Genomics

The Blaxter lab website, databases and services, version 4.0
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NEMBASE4

NEMBASE is a comprehensive Nematode Transcriptome Database
including 63 nematode species, over 600,000 ESTs and over 250,000 proteins.

NEW PAPER: Ghosts of Symbioses past: Finding evidence for ancient symbioses in draft genome data.


Palaeosymbiosis revealed by genomic fossils of Wolbachia in a strongyloidean nematode
Georgios Koutsovoulos, Benjamin Makepeace, Vincent N. Tanya, Mark Blaxter
http://www.plosgenetics.org/doi/pgen.1004397

In a newly-published paper, we show that we can find evidence of ancient symbiosis between nematodes and bacteria by surveying the nematodes’ genomes for genomic fossils of genes horizontally transferred from the bacteria.

See here for an extended description of the discovery.

The genome sequence is available from http://dictyocaulus.nematod.es.

The analyses were carried out by Georgios Koutsovoulos, a BBSRC-funded PhD student in the Blaxter group, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh (http://www.nematodes.org/), from specimens provided by Benjamin Makepeace (Liverpool) and Vincent Tanya (Cameroon). The sequencing was carried out by Edinburgh Genomics (http://genomics.ed.ac.uk/).

1000 nematode genomes   the 1000 nematode genomes initiative
NORNEX ash dieback   the NORNEX ash dieback genomics consortium
genomics databases   genomic and transcriptomic databases for nematodes and other metazoan phyla
software tools   freely downloadable tools for expressed sequence tag analysis, DNA barcode analysis and phylogenomics
research projects   the work we do on the genomics, evolution and diversity of animals
CIIE   The Blaxter lab is part of the Centre for Infection Immunity and Evolution of the University of Edinburgh
GenePool   The GenePool Genomics Facility and the NERC NBAF sequencing facility

The website is continuously "under reconstruction" - please email mark.blaxter-at-ed.ac.uk if you find a significant broken link.

BaNG website, version 4.01, May 1st 2010
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Xiphinema index

The plant-parasitic nematode Xiphinema index .
Plant parasitic nematodes cause major economic losses worldwide. Xiphinema index is a migratory endoparasite of the roots of many crop species, and transmits dangerous plant viruses . See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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