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These include the SBHM of the phosphotransferase system enzyme II (glucose permease or PTS-EII) found in several lineages of free-living bacteria, the one at the C-termini of cytochrome F from cyanobacteria and chloroplasts, and the NlpD-like cell wall peptidases that are present in most bacteria.
PEVE is the first viral element identified in free-living flatworms.
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.
Building on the availability of the complete genome sequence, gene homologs of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans [ 31 ] were identified for M. incognita clusters and correlated with known RNA interference (RNAi) phenotypes.
The topology of the tree based on gene pair conservation seems to carry a stronger phylogenetic signal than the gene presence-absence tree because it correctly groups together related free-living and parasitic bacteria despite major differences in gene repertoires (Fig.