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EVOLUTION OF VIRULENCE IN AN ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE SYMBIONT. Blackburn, Dana, and B.J. Adams. Dept. of Biology 401 WIDB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are important biological manage agents consisting of two genera, Steinernema and Heterorhabditis, which kill their insect hosts together with the support of their bacterial symbionts, Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus, respectively. Photorhabdus is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria belonging towards the Enterobacteriaceae household. Additionally to forming a mutualistic partnership using the Heterorhabditidae household of nematodes, these bacteria are mainly accountable for insect mortality throughout the nematode infection. Photorhabdus virulence is dependent on several toxins and also other virulence things common to this family members of bacteria for instance proteases and form III secretion systems. There are actually three described species of Photorhabdus; luminescens and Which mimics some features of respondent-driven temperata, which are strictly entomopathogens, and asymbiotica, which has been isolated from wound infections in humans. Phylogenetic relationships had been investigated applying parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses with 62 taxa and 3 genes, 16S rRNA, gyrB, and glnA. Species formed robust monophyletic groups; on the other hand, subspecies placement was not as resolved. To investigate how virulence has evolved in this genus, bacterial cells were injected into Galleria mellonella larvae, and the LT50 was calculated for each and every strain. These values had been mapped onto the phylogeny employing ancestral reconstruction approaches. The outcomes show that high virulence might have evolved a number of instances in this genus and it may well be strain dependent. Also, virulence-associated genes had been investigated for selective pressures to supply further understanding of your evolution of virulence within this organism. Understanding how virulence has evolved in this bacterium will aid in unraveling the mechanisms with the Heterorhabditis-Photorhabdus complex, which may perhaps help within the collection of nematode-bacterium complexes for biological handle. HOST REACTION OF BRAZILIAN Widespread BEAN UPRIGHT CULTIVARS TO MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA AND PRATYLENCHUS BRACHYURUS. Bonfim Junior, Mauro and M.M. Inomoto. Plant Pathology and Nematology Dept., University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 13418-900. Widespread bean (Pha.were watered frequently with Hoagland's remedy and maintained under a 14-hour photoperiod. Root systems had been periodically and non-destructively X-rayed to observe root architecture, root development and gall development. Gall enlargement was effectively observed over a 27-day period. Nematodes created for the female stage on sunflower and made egg masses by 30 days just after inoculation. Nematodes didn't appear to be harmed by repeated X-rays, and eggs obtained from X-rayed females hatched and developed typically on tomato. In an additional study, sunflower roots infected with Rotylenchulus reniformis within the greenhouse have been meticulously washed and also the root systems were X-rayed. Egg masses had been visible inside the X-ray pictures as distinct hemispheres on the root having a darker ring around the egg mass base compared to the rest on the egg mass. This strategy has wonderful potential for studying nematode development and resistance, and the influence of root architecture on nematode parasitism. In addition, stereo X-ray imaging of cotton roots heavily laden with R. reniformis egg masses indicated a high prospective for speedy counting of egg masses or attached endoparasitic nematodes. EVOLUTION OF VIRULENCE IN AN ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE SYMBIONT.