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.
I would like to draw your attention to f Karin Kiontke et al.’s new paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology on the phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis. The authors describe quite a few new strains and species, which should be of interest to anyone interested in phylogeny of nematodes.
But they couldn’t find any sister species to C.elegans, so that challenge is still on.
The newly published Ascaris suum genome (Aaron Jex, et al, Nature 2011 Oct 2) is available at WormBase including it’s geneset. The data has been added to GBrowse/BLAT/BLAST and can be downloaded as FASTA/GFF3 files from the WormBase FTP server.
Ascaris suum is a model for other parasitic Ascaris, as well as causing itself economic damage to pig farming. In addition it is known to be resistant to a large number of antihelminth chemicals.