Sentences with phrase «nematodes exist»

The findings here reported seem to indicate that a feline reservoir for the nematode exist in this area of Central Italy.

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While medications currently exist to treat lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, the two main diseases caused by filarial nematodes, the drugs are insufficient to eliminate the diseases by 2020 and researchers project that resistance will arise to some of the drugs.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

The added soil made the existing land richer — as the researchers found more nematode worms, more bacteria, and more fungi in those sections of the plots.

Whole - genome chips exist already for five other organisms: the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a plant called Arabidopsis tumefaciens, and the gut bacterium Escherichia coli.

The nematode that causes the original infection exists in dirt on all continents except Antarctica, and it is most common in warmer regions, particularly remote rural areas in the tropics and subtropics where walking barefoot combined with poor sanitation leads to infection.

Whereas in the nematode experiment the researchers targeted nanoparticles to temperature - sensitive ion channels that naturally exist in the membranes of the worms» nerve cells, the scientists inserted the gene for a heat - activated ion channel called TRPV1 into the human and rat cells.

Strikingly, no perilipin othologue has been identified in C. elegans, suggesting that nematode - specific lipid regulatory pathways might exist in this phylum and perhaps in others as well.

Many other methods of flea control exist, ranging from herbal remedies to nematodes which kill developing flea larvae.