CladeI nematodes

Clade I nematodes are in the main freeliving, marine animals. Two parasitic orders are placed in Clade I however: the insect-parasitic Mermithidae, and the animal parasitic Trichinellidae (also known as Trichocephalidae).

database description EST effort Trichinella spiralis nematode.net Trichinella spiralis is a fascinating parasite of vertebrate skeletal muscle. In the wild it is found in many species, but particularly top carnivores. It is an important zoonosis of humans. A small number of ESTs have been sequenced in Edinburgh in collaboration with Murray Selkirk (London, libraries) and Bernadette Connoly (Aberdeen, libraries). Additional ESTs are being sequenced at Washington university St. Louis. Trichuris trichiura T. trichiura is the whipworm of humans which infects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ESTs are being sequenced in Edinburgh in collaboration with the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at the Sanger Institute. Trichuris muris T. muris is a rodent model for the human whipworm parasite ESTs are being analysed in Edinburgh in collaboration with Richard Grencis (Manchester, libraries) and the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at the Sanger Institute.