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A correlation between sequence conservation and severe phenotype by RNAi had previously been shown by comparison of C. elegans to genomes from the distant phyla Saccharomyces, Drosophila and human [ 63 64 ] . Here we show a similar trend following detection of homology to expressed genes in other nematode species.
Draft sequences of human, mouse, fruit fly, and nematode genomes have recently been released, and the sequencing of several other complex genomes is underway.
Strikingly, the nematode protein has greatest similarity (56% amino-acid identity) to GSI from the rhizobial bacterium, Mesorhizobium loti , including conservation of Tyr397.
The results from this second filter were examined and any sequence with a significant match to a metazoan other than a closely related plant-parasitic nematode was removed from further analysis.
From the Lawrence and Ochman model [ 42 ] , in which differences in G+C and codon bias are diagnostic for HGT events, it might be argued that our findings on the base composition of bacterial and nematode sequences are inconsistent with HGT.