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The secret(ion) life of worms

David McK Bird* and Charles H Opperman

Author Affiliations

Center for the Biology of Nematode Parasitism, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:205 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-1-205

Published: 28 January 2009

Abstract

Tandem mass spectrographic analysis of the secreted proteins of plant- and human-parasitic nematodes reveals molecular similarities that reflect the shared need to counter host defenses.