In the Mesorhabditis belari roundworm, the sole purpose of males is to help females produce clones of themselves. In 1949, the young biologist Victor Nigon described the reproduction of various ...

The soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) is the most significant nematode pest affecting soybeans on Delmarva and in the United States. First detected in Delaware in the fall of 1979, the ...

Male sex is important even for the lowly nematode, a soil worm that can reproduce without the masculine gender. A new study shows that keeping guys around may be essential to survival of the species.

Scientists made a surprising wildlife discovery in the world’s driest desert. Tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are not just surviving but thriving high in the Chilean mountains. The findings suggest that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Identification of soils that inhibit a tiny soybean-destroying organism is an important tool in reducing yield losses, according to a Purdue University plant pathologist.

The nematode worms that cause the world's most devastating crop losses have given up on sexual reproduction and instead rely on their large, duplicated genomes to thrive in new environments. A group ...

Filarial nematodes -- microscopic, thread-like roundworms -- currently infect up to 54 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of disability in the developing world. Now, researchers have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • Background and Aims Knowledge of host factors affecting plant-nematode interactions is scarce. Here, relevant interaction phenotypes between ...

In 1949, the young biologist Victor Nigon described the reproduction of various species of nematodes, small roundworms that live in the soil in its doctoral thesis. These include Mesorhabditis belari, ...