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DOI: | 10.1006/jipa.2001.5024 |
Web URL(s): | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022201101950244 Last checked: 09/27/2013 Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website Notes: Guide page with references |
Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Zaborski, Edmond R.;
Gittenger, L. A. Soeken;
Roberts, Stephen J. |
Author Affiliation: | Center for Economic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL |
Title: | A possible Phasmarhabditis sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) isolated from Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) |
Section: | Notes Other records with the "Notes" Section
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Source: | Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. Vol. 77, No. 4, May 2001, p. 284-287. |
Publishing Information: | San Diego: Academic Press |
# of Pages: | 4 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Nematoda; Lumbricus terrestris; Hosts of plant pests; Pest profile; Parasites; Infection
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Abstract/Contents: | Describes the unusual pathology, "morphology and other biological aspects" of a parasitic rhabditid nematode found in a nightcrawler (L. [Lumbrieus] terestris) in Champaign, Illinois during January of 1997. This nematode "readily infected and killed apparently healthy earthworms." The earthworms studied "were collected from sidewalks" around the University of Illinois, from 1997 to 2000. During the study, "all infected earthworms died quickly once they began to show any symptoms (in as little as 24 h) and were soon covered with thousands of nematodes." The particular nematode was only found to infect L. terrestris under natural conditions, but infected and killed other species of earthworm in laboratory experiments. States that experimenters have used the keys in Andrássy (1979, 1983) to "tentatively [identify] this nematode as a rhabditid in the subfamily Peloderinae, and its morphological characteristics compare favorably with the diagnosis of the genus Phasmarhabditis." Although there is some supporting evidence, the experimenters are "uncertain whether [the] isolate is P. neopapillosa or an undescribed species." Warns that "the fact that at least one other nematode in the small genus Phasmarhabditis may be an aggressive parasite of earthworms raises a cautionary flag about the host range of these nematodes and argues for a better understanding of the relationships and ecology of Phasmarhabditis nematodes and their hosts." |
Language: | English |
References: | 13 |
Note: | Pictures, b/w |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Zaborski, E. R., L. A. S. Gittenger, and S. J. Roberts. 2001. A possible Phasmarhabditis sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) isolated from Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae). J. Invertebr. Pathol. 77(4):p. 284-287. |
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| DOI: 10.1006/jipa.2001.5024 |
| Web URL(s): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022201101950244 Last checked: 09/27/2013 Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website Notes: Guide page with references |
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