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The two free-living bacteria with small genomes, the hyperthermophiles A. aeolicus and T. maritima, did not join either the free-living or the parasitic bacterial cluster, despite their small number of genes similar to that in bacterial parasites (Fig.
That these bacteria do not group with the parasites despite similar genome sizes, suggests that it is not the number of genes per se, but rather the degree of genome degradation and the loss of coherent sets of genes that affect the topology of the presence-absence tree.
Parasites from 8 genera were detected in the 57 positive samples (table 1).
Distributions of clusters by GO categories can be compared to findings from other species using the TIGR gene index [ 38 39 ] which includes information for three nematodes - the free-living C. elegans and the human filarial parasites Brugia malayi and Onchocerca volvulus . Table 3compares observed GO representation among nematode species.
Human hookworm infection is caused by blood-feeding nematode parasites of the genus