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Pristionchus pacificus: an appropriate fondness for beetles

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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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Figure 1: The worm, the beetle, the consequence.

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  1. 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. jsrini@caltech.edu pws@caltech.edu,

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Srinivasan, J., Sternberg, P. Pristionchus pacificus: an appropriate fondness for beetles. Nat Genet 40, 1146–1147 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1008-1146

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