A professor once told me that if you removed everything from earth and just left the nematodes you would still recognize the outlines of everything. I have absolutely no idea if this is even remotely ...

Nematodes are tiny worms, and the floors of the world's oceans are crawling with them. There might be hundreds of millions of different species of these worms, just within one square meter of sediment ...

ABSTRACT: By bioturbating and bio-irrigating the sea floor, macrobenthic organisms transport organic matter and oxygen from the surface to deeper layers, thereby extending the habitat suitable for ...

Biologists are studying the biological diversity the island, Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Réunion is to Ralf Sommer and Matthias Herrmann from the Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in ...

Nematode taxonomy has long relied on traditional morphological criteria; however, the advent of molecular techniques has revolutionised species identification and phylogenetic analysis. Integrative ...

1. Previous studies have found that migratory birds generally have a more diverse array of pathogens such as parasites, as well as higher intensities of infection. However, it is not clear whether ...

Soil nematodes represent a major component of soil communities in terrestrial ecosystems, and play an important role in regulating nutrient cycling and soil health. High-throughput sequencing ...

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...

When observing unexplained stunting, wilting, or death in crops. When planting into a field with a history of nematodes. In areas with prior poor performance. In fall when nematode populations should ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.