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Sequence data swell for nematodes

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With more than 80,000 described species that are extremely diverse in terms of ecology and biology, the Nematoda phylum is one of the most common animal phyla. This month's Genome Watch describes genomes of several nematodes, including that of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi.

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  1. Christiane Hertz-Fowler and Arnab Pain are at the Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. microbes@sanger.ac.uk,

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Brugia malayi

Caenorhabditis elegans

Meloidogyne hapla

Meloidogyne incognita

Pristionchus pacificus

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Hertz-Fowler, C., Pain, A. Sequence data swell for nematodes. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 800–801 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2021

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