Sentences with phrase «nematodes did»

When they took away the ability of the nematode to secrete cytokinin certain cell cycle genes were not activated at the feeding site and the nematodes did not develop.

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

«We then thought, if C. elegans uses this chemical language, perhaps other nematodes do too,» Schroeder said.

Not exact matches

Rock - eating bacteria for instance, but also a nematode that eats said bacteria if we're not mistaken and goes by the name of Halicephalobus mephisto — or the Devil's Worm (Mephistopheles means literally «he who doesn't love light», but it is also one of the devil's names).

Did you know that we have only a third the number of genes present in a nematode?

In the Kruglyak lab, however, Ben - David and fellow postdoc Alejandro Burga were doing a project that required crossing the usual lab nematodes with the DL238 strain from Hawaii.

To ensure the introduced protein didn't interact with other parts of the neuron, the team used the mouse version of the gene rather than the nematode's usual invertebrate version.

Moreover, pesticides usually do not actually kill the nematodes, they just temporarily paralyze them.

«Technology is changing all the time, we're gaining new tools constantly, so you never know when something new is going to allow us to do something specific at the site of nematode feeding that will lead to a breakthrough.»

He notes, as do the authors, that those pest groups seen moving towards the equator — largely nematode worms and viruses are the most poorly understood, and therefore the ones most likely to be discovered later in developing countries.

«The simple statement is that the cytokinin receptors were activated in response to nematode infection and the mutants did not support growth and development of the nematodes,» Mitchum said.

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.

As reported Friday in Molecular Ecology, the likelihood that nematodes have similar microbial profiles does not correlate with how closely they are related.

These soils typically don't hold a lot of carbon, but the researchers believe warming has encouraged soil nematodes and mites, which help decompose leaves and other plant matter, to make their way to the deeper soils.

Since nematodes are the only known organisms to use ascarosides, «we don't have to be afraid of interfering with similar biochemistry in animals, plants or humans,» Schroeder said, as researchers seek to identify species - specific ascaroside molecules that may enable novel approaches to deter or disrupt the survival or reproduction of parasitic worms.

Hi Dr. Jockers, I'm struggling with possible nematodes in my spinal fluid, do you know if these herbs pass the blood brain barrier?

For example, results of flea control nematode trials done under artificial conditions in North Carolina, California, Texas, and Louisiana have been very promising.

Many nematodes, such as hookworms and roundworms do not pass eggs immediately (their prepatent period).