Insight into the evolution of parasitism
Monday, September 22, 2008 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining insight into the evolution of parasitism. In their work, which has been published in the latest edition of Nature Genetics, the scientists from Professor Ralf J. Sommer's department in Tübingen have shown that the genome of the nematode consists of a surprisingly large number of genes, some of which have unexpected functions.
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