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Nematode debt to bacteria

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The transition by certain nematode worms to plant parasitism, and possibly more generally to herbivory, is illuminated by an investigation into how nematodes acquired the protein weapons to penetrate the plant cell wall.

In the Iliad1, Homer chronicles how the Achaeans, after invading Trojan territory, built a mighty wall around their encampment to protect themselves. The Trojans retaliated with a multi-pronged assault, and with heavenly intercession the wall was breached.

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Figure 1: A multi-pronged assault.

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  1. Noah K. Whiteman and Andrew D. Gloss are in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. whiteman@email.arizona.edu,

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Whiteman, N., Gloss, A. Nematode debt to bacteria. Nature 468, 641–642 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468641a

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