What makes a parasite?
Genetic clues to what makes parasitic worms different from free-living worms are reported in a paper published online this week in Nature Genetics. Groups led by Mark Viney, Matthew Berriman and Taisei Kikuchi carried out the sequencing and assembly of genomes from six nematode species from the clade that includes the human parasitic roundworm Strongyloides stercoralis. We asked one of the authors, Professor Mark Viney of the University of Bristol, to tell us a little bit about the study. Read more