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Genes that were transferred from bacteria to nematodes would pass through our phylogenetic filter if the transfer event occurred subsequent to the divergence of the C. elegans and Meloidogyne lineages (Figure 1).
The finding of multiple Tylenchida genes with close homologs in rhizobacteria suggests the possibility of horizontal transfer of cassettes of genes or multiple transfer events between nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria and plant parasitic nematodes.
In both yeast and nematodes, the ability of a gene to buffer the loss of its duplicate declines over time as their functional overlap decreases.
Although many other aspects of animal phylogeny remain unresolved, our results indicate that insects (arthropods) are genetically and evolutionarily closer to humans (vertebrates) than to nematodes.
In the 18S rRNA gene, nematodes typically have long branches indicating an increased rate of sequence change.