Nematode Specific InDels

Insertions and deletions (indels) are important sequence variants which are considered as phylogenetic markers that reflect evolutionary adaptations in different species. This is part of our recent work to identify nematode specific indels based on transcriptome data. We examined over 160,000 polypeptides from 10 nematode species (9 parasitic and 1 non-parasitic species), compared them to 5 non-nematodes and identified indels unique to nematode proteins in more than 5,000 protein families.