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Nematoda, etc ; Crepidostomum; Echinorhynchus; Salmo trutta; adults; aquatic ecosystems; climate change; fauna; gastrointestinal system; helminths; macroinvertebrates; microscopy; parasitology; species richness; trout; water quality; Spain; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Specimens of Salmo trutta (n = 613) captured by local anglers in different rivers in Galicia (NW Spain) during the 2015 fishing season (15 March–15 August) were examined. In total 1479 adult helminths were recovered from the gastrointestinal tracts of 221 fish. Moreover, the microscopic observation of the sediments obtained, previous diphasic concentration, revealed the presence of helminth eggs i ...
Nematoda, etc ; biopesticides; domestication; plant protection; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Plant essential oils (EOs) are gaining interest as biopesticides for crop protection. EOs have been recognized as important ingredients of plant protection products including insecticidal, acaricidal, fungicidal, and nematicidal agents. Considering the growing importance of EOs as active ingredients, the domestication and cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) to produce chemically st ...
Nematoda, etc ; biotopes; diuron; species diversity; Tunisia; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Coastal marine systems are the most sensitive zones to emerging pollutants. The present study aims to investigate the effect of Diuron on the meiofaunal assemblages, collected from the Bizerte channel (Tunisia). Microcosm experiments were set up using four increasing Diuron concentrations [D1 (10 ng g⁻¹ dry weight (DW)), D2 (50 ng g⁻¹ DW), D3 (250 ng g⁻¹ DW) and (1250 ng g⁻¹ DW)] compared to non-c ...
Nematoda, etc ; crops; endophytes; fungi; mutualism; plant protection; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Virtually all examined plant species harbour fungal endophytes which asymptomatically infect or colonize living plant tissues, including leaves, branches, stems and roots. Endophyte-host interactions are complex and span the mutualist–pathogen continuum. Notably, mutualist endophytes can confer increased fitness to their host plants compared with uncolonized plants, which has attracted interest in ...
Nematoda, etc ; Schistosoma; helminths; observational studies; parasitism; parasitology; sensation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Migrations performed by helminths are impressive and diverse, and accumulating evidence shows that many are controlled by sophisticated sensory programs. The migrations of vector-borne helminths are particularly complex, requiring precise, stage-specific regulation. We review the contrasting states of knowledge on snail-borne schistosomes and mosquito-borne filarial nematodes. Rich observational d ...
Nematoda, etc ; Xenopus; chlorides; genes; ivermectin; oocytes; pesticides; physiology; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Glutamate-gated chloride channels are the most important target of ivermectin and related compounds in parasitic nematodes. A small family of genes encode subunits of these channels, allowing the assembly of multiple channel subtypes; the subunit composition of most of the native receptors is unknown. The members of the gene family vary between species, making extrapolation from C. elegans to para ...
Nematoda, etc ; RNA; ecology; gene expression; nutrition; transcription (genetics); Show all 6 Subjects
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... Plant galls are novel and sometimes dramatic plant organs whose development is initiated and controlled by parasitic microbes, nematodes, insects and mites. For arthropods, galls provide relative safety from enemies and abiotic stresses while providing nutrition. Galls are formed entirely by the plant, whose transcriptional pathways are modified and coopted to produce a structure specific to the g ...
Nematoda, etc ; Cestoda; Trematoda; helminths; parasitology; research; sterols; therapeutics; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Infections with parasitic helminths cause severe debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases in humans and domestic animals on a global scale. Unable to synthesize de novo their own fatty acids and sterols, helminth parasites (nematodes, trematodes, cestodes) rely on their hosts for their supply. These organisms produce and secrete a wide range of lipid binding proteins that are, in most cases, str ...
Nematoda, etc ; Nematomorpha; acrosome; invertebrates; mitochondria; nuclear membrane; reproduction; ultrastructure; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Sperm ultrastructure of the hairworm Gordionus alpestris (Nematomorpha, Chordodidae) was studied. Spermatozoa are elongated aflagellate cells of clavate shape. Their dilated anterior part consists of an acrosomal complex comprising an apical acrosomal vesicle and axial acrosomal tube enveloped by an acrosomal sheath of four membrane-bound compartments. The basal part of the tube contains a cluster ...
Nematoda, etc ; Acanthocephala; Cestoda; adults; helminths; immunity; parasitology; research; risk; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Why do so many parasitic worms have complex life-cycles? A complex life-cycle has at least two hypothesized costs: (i) worms with longer life-cycles, i.e. more successive hosts, must be generalists at the species level, which might reduce lifetime survival or growth, and (ii) each required host transition adds to the risk that a worm will fail to complete its life-cycle. Comparing hundreds of trop ...
Nematoda, etc ; Acanthocephala; holotypes; males; museums; parasites; parasitology; reference standards; Show all 8 Subjects
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... When a new parasite species is identified, a name-bearing specimen or holotype is designated as its reference standard. For most acanthocephalans and nematodes, the holotype is male, a bias which lacks scientific justification. We propose ways of redressing this imbalance and achieving fuller representation of each species in museum collections. ...
Nematoda, etc ; data collection; neural networks; plant parasitic nematodes; soybeans; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Phytoparasitic nematodes (or phytonematodes) are causing severe damage to crops and generating large-scale economic losses worldwide. In soybean crops, annual losses are estimated at 10.6% of the world production. Besides, the identification of these species through microscopic analysis by an expert with taxonomic knowledge is often laborious, time-consuming, and susceptible to failure. From this ...
Nematoda, etc ; Arthropoda; Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Mollusca; epigenetics; genome; hemocytes; immunologic memory; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Invertebrates are the protagonists of a recent paradigm shift because they now show that vertebrates are not the only group with immune memory. This review discusses the concept of immune priming, its characteristics, and differences with trained immunity and immune enhancement. We include an update of the current status of immune priming within generations in different groups of invertebrates whi ...
Nematoda, etc ; Medicago truncatula; legumes; mutualism; ontogeny; root-knot nematodes; symbionts; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Priority effects shape the assembly of free‐living communities and host‐associated communities. However, the current literature does not fully incorporate two features of host–symbiont interactions, correlated host responses to multiple symbionts and ontogenetic changes in host responses to symbionts, leading to an incomplete picture of the role of priority effects in host‐associated communities. ...
Megan Andrew-Priestley; Katie Newton; Margaret E. Platell; Lisa Le Strange; Harry Houridis; Michael Stat; Richard Man Kit Yu; Craig Evans; Zoe Rogers; Jason Pallot; Jaman Van Den Broek; Geoff R. MacFarlane
Nematoda, etc ; Polychaeta; indicator species; marine pollution; sediments; wastewater treatment; Australia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... An impact assessment of oceanic effluent releases from Belmont wastewater treatment works (WWTW) in Newcastle, Australia, was undertaken. Benthic infaunal assemblages in sandy sediments of ~25 m water depth were examined, at sites adjacent to the release point, and at increasing distances up to 2 km in both a NE and SW direction over five consecutive years (2016–2020). Localised impacts were evide ...
Nematoda, etc ; Trematoda; diagnostic techniques; genome; genomics; helminths; livestock; proteomics; transgenesis; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Helminth infections impact the health of hundreds of millions of persons globally and also cause important economic losses in livestock farming. Methodological limitations as well as the low attention given to the study of helminths have impacted biological research and, thus, the procurement of accurate diagnosis and effective treatments. Understanding the biology of helminths using genomic and p ...
Nematoda, etc ; Rotifera; Tardigrada; body length; diet; fauna; soil; soil food webs; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Tardigrades are ubiquitous microfauna that act as consumers and predators in soil food webs. Several studies have suggested that tardigrades have great potential to control nematode populations. However, the regulatory function of tardigrades depends on many factors, including their feeding preferences. Yet, tardigrade feeding preferences remain largely unresolved. Therefore, in our experiment, ni ...
Nematoda, etc ; biological control agents; nematology; Chile; Egypt; France; Germany; New Zealand; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is a malacopathogenic nematode that can kill several species of pestiferous slugs and snails (Wilson et al., 1993). It has been formulated as a biological control agent (Nemaslug®) and used broadly throughout Europe (Rae et al., 2007). It has been isolated outside Europe in Egypt (Genena et al., 2011), Chile (France & Gerding, 2000), the USA (Tandingan De Ley et al., ...
Nematoda, etc ; Shewanella oneidensis; bioaugmentation; free-living nematodes; phenanthrenes; pollution; sediments; Tunisia; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This study was conducted to assess the impact and efficiency of the bioaugmentation as a bioremediation technique in annoying effects of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (phenanthrene) on a community of free-living nematodes from Bizerte bay (Tunisia). For this purpose, closed microcosms were exposed to three doses of phananthrene (0.1 μg kg⁻¹, 1 μg kg⁻¹ and 10 μg kg⁻¹), in combination or not wit ...
Nematoda, etc ; biological control; nematicides; plant parasitic nematodes; toxicity; volatile organic compounds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are one of the most destructive plant pathogens worldwide, and controlling them is extremely challenging. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which naturally exist in plants and microorganisms, play an important role in the biological control of PPNs and are considered potential substances for the development of commercial nematicides. This paper summarizes the VOCs ...