Sentences with phrase «microscopic roundworm»

In 2006 I was contacted by Gaetan Borgonie, a Belgian scientist who had found microscopic roundworms, or nematodes, in caves in Central America.

And another experiment reveals that in nematodes — nearly microscopic roundworms — males kill members of the opposite sex by spurring what resembles premature aging.

Lab manager Abigail at Pheronym is explaining how biocontrol works for agricultural pest control and how Pheronym uses pheromones from microscopic roundworms to improve the efficacy of commercially available beneficial nematodes for insect control.

The eggs then hatch in the intestine and become microscopic roundworm larvae.

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.

Ranked among the top five major plant pathogens in the world, root - knot nematodes are microscopic roundworms that infect the roots of more than 2,000 fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, such as lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries and carnations, across the world.

Dr. Ithai Rabinowitch, a neurobiologist in Dr. Jihong Bai's laboratory, wants to know how the nerves that sense touch convey information in Caenorhabditis elegans, the microscopic roundworm he studies.

Infected dogs shed the microscopic roundworm eggs in their feces.