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The same insects that transmit these devastating human parasites often possess a diversity of mutualistic and parasitic bacterial endosymbionts.
In 1998, it was discovered that plant parasitic nematodes possess genes encoding beta-1,4-endoglucanase enzymes (cellulases) and that by far the strongest non- Tylenchida homologs for these enzymes were prokaryotic cellulases from Pseudomonas, Clostridium and other microbes.
Sequences were obtained from the Parasitic Nematode Sequencing Project (PNSP) [ 30 ] including clustered Meloidogyne ESTs built with the NemaGene approach [ 28 ] . We analyzed 1,799 M. incognita (WMi) sequences and 3,119 M. javanica (WMj) sequences from these PNSP clusters.
Pithecelobium unguis-cati is used as a febrifuge and for malaria in Guatemala and the Peruvian Amazon [ 119 120 ] . Hunters wrongly claimed that Pithecellobium unguis-cati was parasitic.
As recently as February 2000 only 22 ESTs from plant parasitic nematodes had been deposited in dbEST.