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Nematology: terra incognita no more

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The genome sequence of the plant-parasitic roundworm Meloidogyne incognita opens new avenues to boosting food production.

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Figure 1: Three hypothesized evolutionary events shaped the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita genome.

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  1. James P. McCarter is at Divergence Inc., 893 North Warson Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63141, USA and the Washington University Genome Center, 4444 Forest Park Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA. mccarter@divergence.com,

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J.P.M. is an employee of Divergence, Inc., a company that develops products for the control of parasites including root-knot nematode.

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McCarter, J. Nematology: terra incognita no more. Nat Biotechnol 26, 882–884 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0808-882

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