Paul Mooyman

TL;DR: A high-quality genome sequence of domesticated tomato is presented, a draft sequence of its closest wild relative, Solanum pimpinellifolium, is compared, and the two tomato genomes are compared to each other and to the potato genome.

TL;DR: The extensiveness of convergent evolution is one of the most striking phenomena observed in the phylogenetic tree presented here – it is hard to find a morphological, ecological or biological characteristic that has not arisen at least twice during nematode evolution.

TL;DR: To illustrate the practicability of the proposed molecular framework, primers were designed for the detection of individual subclades within the order Mononchida in a complex DNA background and tested them in quantitative assays (real‐time polymerase chain reaction).

TL;DR: A phylum-wide SSU rDNA framework was used to identify species-specific DNA motifs and polymerase chain reaction primers were developed with high, identical annealing temperatures, which can be used for the rapid screening of plant material and soil for the presence of one or multiple foliar nematode species.

TL;DR: Analysis of coding sequences of cellulases suggests that root-knot and cyst nematodes did not acquire this gene directly by lateral genes transfer, and these genes were passed on by ancestors of a family nowadays known as the Pratylenchidae.