Sentences with word «nematode»

Researchers investigate whether dietary mono - unsaturated fatty acids can extend lifespan in nematode worms in a new study published in Nature.

Anthelmintic resistance in nematodes of horses.

To try and better understand the mechanisms of both fear and anxiety, Salk researchers employed the use of nematode worms.

Normally, P. luminescens targets insect larvae, with the help of parasitic nematode worms.

In a screen of nearly 200,000 compounds, Tardiff and collaborators identified one chemical entity that not only reversed alpha - synuclein toxicity in yeast cells, but also partially rescued neurons in the model nematode C. elegans and in rat neurons.

«On the one hand the result is an important contribution to the fundamental understanding of parasitism in plants, and on the other hand it can help to reduce the problem of cyst nematode in important agricultural crops,» said Prof Grundler.

There have been several recent reports of life at great depths, with nematode worms found living 3 kilometres down in a gold mine, for instance.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

Cytokinin is normally produced in plants, but these researchers determined that this growth hormone is also produced by nematode parasites that use it to take over plant root cells.

That number exceeds estimates for other tropical diseases, such as nematode infection and trypanosomiasis, which often receive more attention.

A final experiment used a mutant that created an excess of an enzyme that degrades cytokinin, finding that a base level of plant cytokinin was also necessary for nematode growth.

These include lymphatic filariasis and loiasis, two serious human tropical diseases that are caused by nematode worms and spread by mosquitoes.

No evidence that face color varies with age, dominance status, parity, weight, and intestinal nematode infection in female Japanese macaques.

Febantel is active against nematode parasites, including whipworms.

When Oliveira and colleagues looked at the leaves under an electron microscope, they noticed tiny roundworms called nematodes sitting on the leaves (inset image).

A further benefit is that Neem products possess natural pesticide properties and attack from nematodes and other soil - born pests are greatly reduced.

The digestive tract is similar to that of free - living nematodes only in the young larvae prior to their parasitic life; in the parasitic stages the oesophagus is disconnected from the mid-intestine, and females lack an anus.

Parasitic nematodes feed on a wide range of crops, including corn, wheat, coffee, soybeans, potatoes and a host of fruit trees.

Organic farmers actually use Bt - toxin - producing bacteria as an effective nematode control.

Much of his work is conducted using the C. elegans nematode model, combining genetics and in vivo imaging approaches such as live intracellular transport assays and super resolution microscopy.

Populations of the virtually immobile root - knot nematodes did not appear to be correlated with landscape.

Chordate and nematode sequences were aligned separately using the T - Coffee algorithm (Notredame, Higgins & Heringa, 2000)(server tcoffee.crg.cat) and submitted to PSI - BLAST (Altschul et al., 1997)(E-value inclusion threshold < 10 − 3, 5 iterations) and HHpred (Remmert et al., 2011; Biegert & Soding, 2008) searches as implemented in MPItoolkit (toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.de).

Most importantly, nematicide - carrying virus particles dispersed better when applied to the soil surface and made more molecules available to kill nematodes at the root level.

These microscopic Beneficial Nematodes find and destroy flea larvae, white grubs, gypsy moth larvae and many other pests.

Dirofilaria repens is a zoonotic filarial nematode parasite of dogs, cats and wild carnivores transmitted by mosquitoes (Pampiglione et al., 1995).

Although there has been little research on the microbiomes of invertebrates, Bik's findings differ from previous studies in other nematode species (including those raised in laboratory conditions) and insects, where particular microbial profiles appear to cluster within families.

Evaluation of the Viticultural Performance of Newly Released Nematode Resistant Rootstocks in San Joaquin Valley Wine Grape Vineyards

We don't know how many nematode species there are.

Reducing intestinal nematode infection: efficacy of albendazole and mebendazole (Review).

Purchase beneficial nematodes at garden or pet stores to naturally reduce the flea population.

According to Richard Durbin, who leads the project's informatics team, computer techniques seem to find most of the genes sequenced so far but frequently missed some pieces of them, particularly the short coding regions that occur at the beginning of many nematode genes.

In a new study published Friday in the journal Science, a team of researchers has shown that such «epigenetic» memories can be passed down for 14 generations in a tiny nematode worm species called Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworms).

Two projects will be done jointly with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm: Molecular biologist David Baillie of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, was awarded $ 6.73 million to study protein function in the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and microbiologist Sherif Abou Elela of the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, received $ 3.75 million to test modified nucleic acid technologies for determining gene function.

The article, «Impact of soybean cyst nematode resistance on soybean yield,» is published in Crop Science.

About 15 years ago, Mitchum and colleagues unlocked clues into how nematodes use small chains of amino acids, or peptides, to feed on soybean roots.

Male nematodes produce a soluble signal that shortens the life span of worms of the opposite sex.

In biological and biochemical experiments they first determined the significance of Sip1 for the survival of nematode embryos.

Weeks later, officials recovered the canisters that contained Conley's nematode experiments.

Three species of root - knot nematodes cause serious damage to peppers, Meloidogyne incognita, M. hapla, and M. arenaria.

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.

Among them, the parasitic roundworm known as soybean cyst nematode attacks soybean roots and stunts their growth.

Some stores offer products that contain nematodes for the yard.

Although the number of cases here reported is limited and statistical analysis is not possible, the results of the present study show that difficulties in heartworm diagnosis in non-endemic area may be due not only to the unfamiliarity of clinicians with the disease but, also, to false sero - negative diagnostic test results, apparently due to low number of adults nematodes carried by every infected dog.

Hodda (2011) estimates that parasitic nematodes exist in every other animal phylum larger than themselves, and all plants, with the exception of some marine plants.