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Genes specific to plant parasitic nematodes ( Tylenchida species) as well as prokaryotic-like horizontal gene transfer candidates were also examined.
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.
First, root-knot nematodes and rhizobia occupy similar niches in the soil and in roots, and thus the opportunity for HGT may be omnipresent.
Drosophila melanogaster . Consequently, we chose this resource as a tool to identify genes which may be present in nematodes, but which are absent in C. elegans . A bacteria-like gene present in Meloidogyne and Drosophila , but absent in C. elegans , is unlikely to have experienced HGT, but may rather reflect a gene loss in the C. elegans lineage.
Similar demonstrations performed in other insects [ 6], leeches [ 7], nematodes [ 8], ascidians [ 9], and zebrafish neural crest [ 10] indicate that lateral inhibition operates in diverse developmental contexts throughout metazoan development.