The purpose of this study was to present the structure of nematofauna community with particular emphasis on stomach (proventriculus and gizzard) nematodes in wild ducks wintering in large numbers in the North-Western Poland. Hosts (n=152) were represented by 17 species from eight genera belonging to three different ecological tribes: Anatini, Aythyini, and Mergini. Parasitic nematodes (n=14,396...

to identify the faunal parasitic nematodes of mazandaran, guilan and ardebil provinces, roughly 30 soil samples were collected from the rhizosphere of forest trees during 2005-2009. nematodes were extracted from soil through centrifugal flotation technique. the extracted nematodes were transferred to pure glycerin using common methods. permanent slides were made and nematodes identified as base...

background: : permanent slide preparation of nematodes especially small ones is time consuming, difficult and they become scarious margins. regarding this prob­lem, a modified double glass mounting method was developed and com­pared with classic method. methods: a total of 209 nematode samples from human and animal origin were fixed and stained with formaldehyde alcohol azocarmine lactophenol (...

WEBSTER, J. M. 1973. Manipulation of environment to facilitate use of nematodes in biocontrol of insects. Experimental Parasitology 33, 197-206. The preand postparasitic phases of entomophilic nematodes are exposed to different microenvironments which should be changed in order to facilitate the use of nematodes as biological control agents of insects. The mixing of “thick water” with nematodes...

Anhydrobiotic nematodes were fixed and extracted from dry Mojave desert soils with hot and cold fixatives (5% formalin and 4% gluteraldehyde). Morphologically, extracted nematodes were tightly coiled and shrunken in size. Various concentrations of KCl, ethylene glycol, and sucrose solutions were compared for their effectiveness in extracting viable nematodes still in the anhydrobiotic state. Ap...

Background: The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil-dwelling microbe, which lives most of its life cycle in the vegetative stage as a predator of bacteria and as prey for nematodes. When bacteria are sparse, amoebae aggregate into a multicellular fruiting body. Some clones of D. discoideum have agriculture (Brock et al., 2011). They carry bacteria through the social stage, eat them...

The infectivity of four species of entomopathogenic nematodes, Steinernema carpocapsae (Weiser) [Breton strain], Steinernema riobrave Cabanillas, Poinar & Raulston [Weslaco strain], Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar [HP88 strain], and Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David [Coimbatore strain] was examined in the laboratory against two subterranean termites: Reticulitermes flavipes ...