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SUBMITTER: Suh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4844689 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160421
Parasite host switches may trigger disease emergence, but prehistoric host ranges are often unknowable. Lymphatic filariasis and loiasis are major human diseases caused by the insect-borne filarial nematodes Brugia, Wuchereria and Loa. Here we show that the genomes of these nematodes and seven tropical bird lineages exclusively share a novel retrotransposon, AviRTE, resulting from horizontal transfer (HT). AviRTE subfamilies exhibit 83-99% nucleotide identity between genomes, and their phylogene ...[more]