The newly published Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Kikuchi et.al) is as of WS229 available at WormBase including it’s gene set. The data are available as GFF3 and FASTA files for download, and has been added to GBrowse and BLAST.

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a pine parasite causing considerable economic damage and can give insights into evolution of plant parasites by comparing it, for example, to Meloidogyne.