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Nevertheless, because the origin of many of the nematode HGT candidates appeared to be rhizobial, we wished to investigate the organization of the bacterial homologs.
Rhizobia have the ability to transfer genes horizontally to other bacteria, and M. loti carries a 'symbiosis island' which spans approximately 9% of its genome and has been shown to have a role in rhizobial evolution via HGT [ 46 ] . This symbiosis island contains certain genes involved in nodulation and nitrogen-fixation functions, but none of these is a homolog of the nematode HGT candidates we have identified.
Consequently, these genes are strong candidates for having entered nematodes via HGT, presumably from a rhizobial ancestor.
In particular, we considered how similar the Meloidogyne codon usage is to that of a 'typical' rhizobial protein by using the codon adaptation index (CAI) [ 44 ] . From an R. leguminosarum codon-usage table, we calculated the CAI for those amino acids precisely conserved between Mi-NodL and the rhizobial NodL protein to be 0.621 and 0.703 respectively.
Interestingly, examination of the colinearity and gene arrangements between S. meliloti , R. radiobacter and M. loti indicates that the location of the genes in M. loti probably represents a more primitive state [ 33 ] and is therefore more likely to reflect the proximity of these genes in rhizobial ancestral species.