xylophilus is well endowed with RNA interference effectors, peptidergic neurotransmitters (including the first description of ins genes in a parasite) stress response and developmental genes and has a contracted set of chemosensory receptors. We focus particularly on putative parasitism genes as well as those linked to other key biological processes and demonstrate that B. xylophilus, and use this to investigate the biological basis of its complex ecology which combines fungal feeding, plant parasitic and insect-associated stages. Here, we present a high-quality draft genome sequence from an inbred line of B. xylophilus genome thus provides a unique opportunity to study the evolution and mechanism of plant parasitism. As well as being an important pathogen, the B. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is the nematode responsible for a devastating epidemic of pine wilt disease in Asia and Europe, and represents a recent, independent origin of plant parasitism in nematodes, ecologically and taxonomically distinct from other nematodes for which genomic data is available.
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