English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Wolbachia  are common endosymbionts of terrestrial arthropods, and are also found in nematodes: the animal-parasitic filaria, and the plant-parasite  Radopholus similis . Lateral transfer of  Wolbachia  DNA to the host genome is common. We generated a draft genome sequence for the strongyloidean nematode parasite  Dictyocaulus viviparus , the cattle lungworm. In the assembly, we identified nearly 1 Mb of sequence with similarity to  Wolbachia . The fragments were unlikely to derive from a live  Wolbachia  infection: most were short, and the genes were disabled through inactivating mutations. Many fragments were co-assembled with definitively nematode-derived sequence. We found limited evidence of expression of the  Wolbachia -derived genes. The  D. viviparus Wolbachia  genes were most similar to filarial strains and strains from the host-promiscuous clade F. We conclude that  D. viviparus  was infected by  Wolbachia  in the past, and that clade F-like symbionts may have been the source of filarial  Wolbachia  infections.

Palaeosymbiosis Revealed by Genomic Fossils of Wolbachia in a Strongyloidean Nematode