In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, it is estimated that over 600 million people are infected with the skin ...

This cleanly designed, well-organized website through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln just makes me happy. (An odd reaction, perhaps, to a webpage about parasitic worm.) One cannot help but get ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. The findings ...

Parasitic worms may lead to agricultural stem cell breakthrough Parasitic nematodes found to usurp plant stem cells to make nests Date: July 19, 2017 Source: Kumamoto University Summary: A plant ...

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Nematode Genome Provides Insight Into Evolution Of Parasitism. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 09 / 080921162235.htm ...

Plant parasitic nematodes are microscopic worm-like organisms that require water to survive and are sensitive to high temperature. Sampling might appear trivial but we believe proper sampling is ...

The nematode worms that cause the world's most devastating crop losses have given up on sexual reproduction and instead rely on their large, duplicated genomes to thrive in new environments. A ...

URBANA – Researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois have discovered widespread occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the first reported nematode ...

WHEN the free-living infective larva of a parasitic nematode penetrates its host, there is a fundamental change in the environment of the larva. There is, for example, a rise in the ambient ...

When nematodes leap, the charge on a passing insect attracts the parasites like lint to a staticky sweater. As an insect moves, it builds up charges that create surrounding electric fields.