{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13"],"submitter":["Sheehy L"],"pubmed_abstract":["Nematodes and bacteria are prevalent in soil ecosystems, and some have evolved symbiotic relationships. In some cases, symbionts carry out highly specialized functions: a prime example being entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), which vector bacteria (<i>Xenorhabdus</i> or <i>Photorhabdus</i>) into insect hosts, killing them to provide a food source for the nematodes. It is thought that the commercially available malacopathogenic (kills slugs and snails) biocontrol nematode <i>Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita</i> vectors a bacterium (<i>Moraxella osloensis</i>) into slugs to kill them. To investigate this further we used a metagenomic approach to profile the bacteria present in the commercial strain of <i>P. hermaphrodita</i>, a wild strain of <i>P. hermaphrodita</i> and two other <i>Phasmarhabd"],"journal":["Frontiers in immunology"],"pagination":["878783"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9065361"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Microbiome Analysis of Malacopathogenic Nematodes Suggests No Evidence of a Single Bacterial Symbiont Responsible for Gastropod Mortality."],"pmcid":["PMC9065361"],"pubmed_authors":["Sheehy L","Rae R","Cutler J","Weedall GD"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Microbiome Analysis of Malacopathogenic Nematodes Suggests No Evidence of a Single Bacterial Symbiont Responsible for Gastropod Mortality.","description":"Nematodes and bacteria are prevalent in soil ecosystems, and some have evolved symbiotic relationships. In some cases, symbionts carry out highly specialized functions: a prime example being entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), which vector bacteria (<i>Xenorhabdus</i> or <i>Photorhabdus</i>) into insect hosts, killing them to provide a food source for the nematodes. It is thought that the commercially available malacopathogenic (kills slugs and snails) biocontrol nematode <i>Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita</i> vectors a bacterium (<i>Moraxella osloensis</i>) into slugs to kill them. To investigate this further we used a metagenomic approach to profile the bacteria present in the commercial strain of <i>P. hermaphrodita</i>, a wild strain of <i>P. hermaphrodita</i> and two other <i>Phasmarhabd","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2026-05-31T21:00:33.317Z","creation":"2025-02-19T04:21:26.354Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9065361","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35515005"],"doi":["10.3389/fimmu.2022.878783"]}}