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SUBMITTER: Schoonmaker A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6945039 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schoonmaker Ashley A Hao Yue Y Bird David McK DM Conant Gavin C GC
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20200107 1
The root-knot nematodes of the genus <i>Meloidogyne</i> are important and damaging parasites capable of infecting most flowering plants. Within this genus, several species of the <i>Meloidogyne incognita</i> group show evidence of paleopolyploidy in their genomes. We used our software tool POInT, the Polyploidy Orthology Inference Tool, to phylogenetically model the gene losses that followed that polyploidy. These models, and simulations based on them, show that three of these species (<i>M. inc ...[more]