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In this context, sequencing of genomes from closely related free-living relatives of the chlamydiae could be informative.
Like the well-studied Caenorhabditis elegans , most are free-living and graze on microbes or detritus, and as such, have no obvious direct impact on humans.
It was suggested [ 3 ] that acquisition of these new functions (either by symbiosis or HGT) permitted previously free-living nematodes to expand their range into a new ecological niche (the plant) as a prelude to speciation into parasitic forms.
i) bacteria with large genomes, namely E. coli, B. subtilis, Synechocystis sp., Deinococcus radiodurans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and free-living bacteria with small genomes, A. aeolicus and T. maritima
The pectate lyase gene (MI00592) was identified in G. rostochiensis and H. glycines [ 17 ] and the exo-polygalacturonase (MI00252) was identified in our M. incognita data [ 21 22 ] . Because of the obvious role of nematode genes that allow endogenous production of cell-wall degrading enzymes in attacking a plant host, it has been hypothesized that their acquisition by HGT may have been key steps in the evolution of plant-parasitic nematodes from ancestral free-living forms [ 3 ] . In that model, an intermediate, symbiotic association of a soil-dwelling (but free-living) nematode with a soil bacterium possessing these enzymes is postulated before the HGT event.