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Nature Genetics 40, 1146 - 1147 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng1008-1146
Pristionchus pacificus: an appropriate fondness for beetles
Jagan Srinivasan1 & Paul W Sternberg1
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Jagan Srinivasan and Paul W. Sternberg are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, 156-29 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
e-mail: jsrini@caltech.edu
e-mail: pws@caltech.edu
Abstract
The nematode Pristionchus pacificus associates with one particular beetle and eats its rotting corpse. The report of the genome sequence of P. pacificus, the fifth nematode to be sequenced and a useful secondary nematode genetic model system, highlights genes that may have influenced the route to parasitism.
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