ReviewParasitology2015
The evolution of parasitism in Nematoda.
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142 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 358 citations in OpenAlex.
- FMRFamide-like peptides expand the behavioral repertoire of a densely connected nervous system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Pooled it
- What helminth genomes have taught us about parasite evolution.Parasitology · 2015Pooled it
- The timescale of nematode evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of parasitism.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- The genome of an enigmatic sea urchin parasite Echinomermella matsi Jones & Hagen, 1987 resolves its place among other invertebrate parasitic nematodes.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of mBiology · 2026Article
- Neuronally sensed oxygen drives behavior and development in human-infective, skin-penetrating nematodes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Positive and relaxed selection on mitochondrial DNA in parasitic versus predatory mites.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Article
- A comprehensive review of Onchocercidae nematodes (Nematoda; Filarioidea) infecting wild ruminant ungulates of North and Central America.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2026Review
- Evolution of Animal Parasitism in Nematodes of the Suborder Spirurina.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Patterns and determinants of mitogenomic evolution in Bilateria.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Systematic revision of Paralongidorus (Nematoda: Longidoridae) based on molecular and morphological evidence, with the description of a new species from Spain.Zoological letters · 2026Article
- Environmental gradients and habitat specificity structure benthic microbial assemblages in a temperate seagrass ecosystem.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Structure of helminth communities of rodents in three areas of the Atlantic Forest, Paraná state, Brazil.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2026Article
- Catalytically Active Recombinant Cysteine Proteases ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Nictation behavior in nematodes.BMC biology · 2025Review
- Unearthing roundworms: Nematodes as determinants of human health.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Resolving tissue and cellular functions of parasitic nematodes.Trends in parasitology · 2025Review
- Pelodera: cosmopolitan phoretic saprotrophs and neglected models for origins of nematode parasitism.Parasites & vectors · 2025Review
- Evolution of parasitism-related traits in nematodes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Discovery of an SQS-PSY Domain-Containing Protein inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Nematodes are abundant and diverse, and include many parasitic species. Molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown that parasitism of plants and animals has arisen at least 15 times independently. Extant nematode species also display lifestyles that are proposed to be on the evolutionary trajectory to parasitism. Recent advances have permitted the determination of the genomes and transcriptomes of many nematode species. These new data can be used to further resolve the phylogeny of Nematoda, and identify possible genetic patterns associated with parasitism. Plant-parasitic nematode genomes show evidence of horizontal gene transfer from other members of the rhizosphere, and these genes play important roles in the parasite-host interface. Similar horizontal transfer is not evident in animal parasitic groups. Many nematodes have bacterial symbionts that can be essential for survival. Horizontal transfer from symbionts to the nematode is also common, but its biological importance is unclear. Over 100 nematode species are currently targeted for sequencing, and these data will yield important insights into the biology and evolutionary history of parasitism. It is important that these new technologies are also applied to free-living taxa, so that the pre-parasitic ground state can be inferred, and the novelties associated with parasitism isolated.
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