Sentences with phrase «like nematode»

The adult O. lupi is a coiled white thread - like nematode with the larger female worms suspected to be up to 20 cm in length.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

Not exact matches

Cherim is the founder of the Green Spot LTD, based in Nottingham, N.H., a wholesaler and distributor of biological pest controls — you know, «good» bugs like miniwasps and parasitic nematodes that devour «bad» bugs like aphids and fleas.

In their study, which has just been published in the journal PNAS, the researchers demonstrate that the defence protein docks on to a specific target in the nematode: a modified sugar found on the surfaces of the worm's intestinal cells but also on those of molluscs like snails.

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

They still host hardy organisms like lichens, mosses, and nematodes that can survive the brutal conditions.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

Microscopic roundworms (nematodes) live like maggots in bacon: They penetrate into the roots of beets, potatoes or soybeans and feed on plant cells, which are full of energy.

Reprogramming another organism might sound like a far out concept, but it's a reality for plants susceptible to nematodes.

Now, Mitchum's team is trying to find how this key gene might work differently in other nematode types, like root - knot nematode as part of a new National Science Foundation grant.

The findings indicate that tardigrades are more closely related to nematodes, despite their outward arthropod - like appearance.

Even where the food is not so rich, the seafloor is not lifeless; everywhere it is churned by bristle worms and nematodes and pill - bug - like isopods.

By comparing the DNA sequences of each instance of the transposable element, Suh and his team were able to figure out that the transfer of DNA between nematodes and birds occurred in two waves across the entire tropics, including remote places like Madagascar.

Even the deepest parts of the ocean — with pressures up to 1000 times that at the surface — are buzzing with shrimp - like creatures called amphipods, as well as sea cucumbers, nematodes and other worms, and bacteria.

Non-mammalian animals like zebrafish, fruit flies, nematode worms and even seemingly more exotic creatures like salamanders and Mexican blind cavefish provide powerful experimental models for understanding fundamental biology and disease mechanisms.

Nematode messages get even more complex by combining two or more different molecules, just like combining different words in a sentence makes for more complex meaning.

Given that mouse Boule is required for sperm production like fly boule but different from C. elegans daz - 1, we propose that Urbilaterian Boule had an ancestral function in male gametogenesis which was lost during the evolution of the nematode lineage (Figure 7).

Second, Ron's arguments are based on Cynthia Kenyon's experiments in the nematode worm C elegans, in which she found that mutations to Daf - 2, which is an insulin - like receptor in C elegans, extended maximum lifespan.

The coconut weevil (beetle) carries a microscopic worm like organism (nematode) that kills the tree.

Arguing that IR - opaque CO2 is of no consequence because it's a trace gas (molecule-wise) compared to IR - transparent gases like oxygen and nitrogen, is like arguing that Al - Qaeda is of no consequence because it's a trace population (individual-wise) compared to Antarctic krill, ants, or nematodes.

Ninety - nine per cent of the carbon that is fixed by plants is released back into the atmosphere within a year or so by consumers like bacteria, nematodes and worms.