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From: The genome of Romanomermis culicivorax: revealing fundamental changes in the core developmental genetic toolkit in Nematoda

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Many genes that are developmentally important in Caenorhabditis elegans were not present in Romanomermis culicivorax or Trichinella spiralis . R. culicivorax and T. spiralis orthologues of the 1,725 genes identified as important in embryogenesis in an analysis of gene expression in Caenorhabditis species [61] were sought. For each embryonic stage (1-10) in C. elegans we calculated the proportion of these genes that were apparently unique to the genus Caenorhabditis. The inset depicts numbers of two sets of genes and corresponding clusters that could play a role in a phylotypic stage of Nematoda or all Ecdysozoa, respectively.

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