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2 unusual facts about nematode


Richard William Timm

Among the many varieties of Nematodes he discovered, the Marine Nematode Timmia parva was named after Father Timm himself.

Tibouchina semidecandra

Nematodes can affect Tibouchina and over watering can contribute to mushroom root-rot.


Aceti

Turbatrix aceti, the vinegar eel or vinegar nematode, a free-living nematode species that feeds on the mother of vinegar

Blastophaga psenes

psenes is also the vector of the plant parasitic nematode Schistonchus caprifici (Aphelenchoididae).

Boops boops

Bogue are host to a wide variety of parasites, ranging from metazoans such as Digenean flatworms, Acanthocephalan spiny-headed worms, nematode roundworms, isopod and copepod crustaceans and Myxozoan cnidarians to the unicellular dinoflagellate Ichthyodinium chabelardi, a parasite that is lethal to eggs developing in ovaries.

Caspase

H. Robert Horvitz initially established the importance of caspases in apoptosis and found that the ced-3 gene is required for the cell death that took place during the development of the nematode C. elegans.

Cdc14

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans makes one Cdc14 (CdCdc14), which localizes to the spindle and centrosomes in mitosis, and to the cytoplasm at interphase.

D. africanus

Ditylenchus africanus, the peanut pod nematode, a plant pathogenic species

Daf-16

DAF-16 is the sole ortholog of the FOXO family of transcription factors in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Dichelyne alatae

Dichelyne alatae is a species of nematode, described on the basis of the worms recovered from the intestine of the whiting, Sillaginopsis panijus from the estuary of the Hooghly River at Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

European pond turtle

This species hosts several species of parasites, including Haemogregarina stepanovi, monogeneans of genus Polystomoides, vascular trematodes of genus Spirhapalum and many nematode species.

Globodera rostochiensis

The golden nematode negatively affects plants of the family Solanaceae by forming cysts on the roots of susceptible species.

Globodera tabacum

Globodera tabacum, commonly known as a tobacco cyst nematode, is a plant parasitic nematode that mainly infests the tobacco plant, but also plants in Solanaceae family.

Halicephalobus mephisto

Halicephalobus mephisto is a species of nematode, among a number of other roundworms, discovered by geoscientists Gaetan Borgonie and Tullis Onstott in 2011.

Hylophorbus rufescens

The Fergusson Island form, which may be distinct from H. rufescens proper, is infected by the nematode Moaciria moraveci.

Isopentenyl-diphosphate delta isomerase

Mutations in IDI1, the gene that codes for IPP isomerase 1, have been implicated in decreased viability in a number of organisms, including the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

Larva migrans

Cutaneous larva migrans, a skin disease in humans, caused by the larvae of various nematode parasites

Lungworm

Oxibendazole is commonly used as a prophylactic against these and other nematode infestations.

Meadow vole

Ecto- and endoparasites have been reported to include trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, acanthocephalans, lice (Anoplura), fleas (Siphonaptera), Diptera, and ticks and mites (Acari).

Monochamus

While sawyer beetles are economically insignificant by themselves, some species are known to transport phoretic Bursaphelenchus nematodes, including B. xylophilus which causes pine wilt disease.

Paracalliope

Paracalliope acts as an intermediate host for the nematode Hedruris spinigera, which can thus reach their primary host, the eel.

Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita

This nematode is commercially reared in a culture with the bacterium Moraxella osloensis and sold as a biological molluscicide.

Photorhabdus

Use of Photorhabdus species alone as biopesticide, independent of its nematode symbiont against the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, mango mealy bug, Drosicha mangiferae and the pupae of the diamond back moth, Plutella xylostella has been demonstrated successful.

Platydemus manokwari

This nematode parasitizes Platydemus manokwari as well as the Giant African land snail, and both of these organisms are transmission vectors of the parasite.

Potato cyst nematode

Solanum sisymbriifolium could be used to remove the nematode from infested soils.

R. robustus

Rotylenchus robustus, the Thorne's lance nematode, a plant pathogenic nematode species

Rhinotia haemoptera

The nematode species Heterorhabditis indica has been used effectively against the red weevil.

Stropharia rugosoannulata

A 2006 study, published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found the king stropharia to have the ability to attack the nematode Panagrellus redivivus; the fungus produces unique spiny cells called acanthocytes which are able to immobilise and digest the nematodes.

Totarol

(+)-Totarol exhibits antimicrobial properties in numerous species including gram-positive bacteria, acid-fast bacteria, nematodes, parasitic protozoans, crustaceous foulers (Table 1).


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