Soybean cyst nematode, known as SCN, is a microscopic roundworm that infests the roots of soybeans, forming cysts that contain up to 500 eggs and the juvenile worms. The worms feed on the roots of the ...

Root-knot nematodes (RKN, Meloidogynespp.) are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots. M. incognita, the Southern root-knot nematode, is the most common RKN species in the region. Once RKN ...

Like all plant parasitic nematodes, SCN is a microscopic roundworm. The second stage juvenile is the infective nematode, so-called because it molts once in the egg from first-stage to second-stage.

Nematodes are small, roundworms that live in garden soil and are very important for keeping the environment balanced and ...

Likewise, for many years it was generally assumed that the entire phylum Nematoda, comprising roundworms, completely lacked cilia or flagella. Now it is known that they contain primary cilia ...

The parasitic worms section includes terrestrial and marine Platyhelminthes (flatworms), parasitic Nematoda (roundworms), Nematophorpha (horsehair worms) and Acanthocephala. The collection has ...

"We studied nematode mating rituals to better understand how behaviors change between species." Commonly referred to as ...

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

Japanese researchers say that they have come up with an accurate method to detect cancer by using nematodes and human urine. Their findings show that Caenorhabditis elegans- roundworms that are ...