For example, and to our advantage, the technology
developed for Caenorhabditis elegans is now available.
This nematode is a close relative of entomopathogenic
nematodes in the Heterorhabditidae, and has been
exhaustively studied as a model system for multicellular
organisms (Hope, 1999). The genome of this nematode is
now fully sequenced and we have in our hands great cutting-
edge technology available to apply to EPN (Burnell,
2002). Techniques of molecular genetics such as transposon
mutagenesis (for identiWcation and cloning genes),