[nĕḿə-tōd́, nḗmə-]
(n.)Any of several worms of the phylum Nematoda, having unsegmented, cylindrical bodies, often narrowing at each end, and including parasitic forms such as the hookworm and pinworm. Also called roundworm
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Nematodes are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. A handful of soil will contain thousands of the microscopic worms, many of them parasites of insects, plants or animals. ... Nematodes are structurally simple organisms. Adult nematodes are comprised of approximately 1,000 somatic cells,
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" If all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable... ... University of Nebraska - Lincoln Nematology ... About Nematodes...
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Nematodes are simple roundworms. Colorless, unsegmented, and lacking appendages, nematodes may be free-living, predaceous, or parasitic. Many of the parasitic species cause important diseases of plants, animals, and humans.
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There are thousands of nematodes. Not only are there more than 15,000 known species of roundworms, but there are many thousands of individual nematodes in even a single handful of garden soil. And they keep coming! ... Many nematodes are able to suspend their life processes completely when conditions become unfavorable;
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The "roundworms" or "nematodes" (phylum Nematoda ) are the most diverse phylum of pseudocoelomates, and one of the most diverse of all animals. Nematode species are very difficult to distinguish; ov...
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Nematode and Neglected Genomics at www.nematodes.org ... serving genomics information for nematodes and other metazoan phyla ... The plant-parasitic nematode Globodera rostochiensis . Plant parasitic nematodes cause major economic losses worldwide. Globodera rostochiensis parasitises potato . See NEMBASE3 for analyses...
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UC home and landscape guidelines for control of Nematodes. ... Nematodes are microscopic, eel-like roundworms. The most troublesome species in the garden are those that live and feed within plant roots most of their lives and those that live freely in the soil and feed on plant roots.
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Nematodes are a type of roundworm in the phylum Nematoda. This is a different order of animals from the segmented worms, such as earthworms and flatworms. Nematodes are abundant, particularly in soil. Some Nematodes are plant parasitic {parasitic means it lives off from plants} and some are insect parasitic.
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