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Strategy one: Developing a drug that has both a commercial market in the west and an application against a neglected parasitic disease.
Some of the morons have been shown to be related to other bacterial genes, suggesting that they may at first have been host genes integrated in the phage genome [ 22 ] . These genes may then have diverged rapidly because phages are known to have evolutionary rates orders of magnitude higher than those of bacteria [ 25 ] . Morons seem rarely to confer a direct advantage on the phage, but rather stabilize the host-prophage interaction by slightly increasing host fitness [ 20 ] . Therefore, they may undergo weaker selection pressure than genes directly involved in the phage life-cycle and be more sensitive to the mutational bias inherent to parasitic sequences [ 13 ] . From our results, it appears that whatever the nature of the organism in which the gene was first recruited, its compositional characteristics no longer represent its previous genome context.
Progress has been made recently in assaying RNAi effects in both plant [ 66 ] and animal [ 67 ] parasitic nematodes.
HCV infection is a major public health problem in Egypt [ 6 7 8 ] . Blood bank and community-based surveys conducted in Egypt have reported sero-prevalence rates of HCV to be as high as 40% in some parts of the country [ 9 10 11 12 ] . These rates are substantially higher in the Nile Delta region compared with the rest of the country [ 13 ] . Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection transmitted to humans from snails that harbor the parasite.
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.
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