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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 32-49Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.11.008
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biodiversity; Heterorhabditis; Steinernema; Photorhabdus; Xenorhabdus; taxonomy; systematics; evolution; entomopathogenic nematodes; mutualism; symbiosis
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Nematodes are one of the most abundant animals on earth, and bacteria comprise the most biologically and phylogenetically diverse domains of organisms. On at least two separate occasions a soil dwelling nematode and a bacterium have entered into a mutualistic, insecticidal association. From such origins arose two distinct lineages of nematode-bacterium entomopathogens, Steinernema-Xenorhabdus and Heterorhabditis-Photorhabdus. Herein, we present a summary and discussion of the known evolutionary diversity and systematics of these two groups relative to other nematodes and bacteria, and their shared evolutionary history. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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