Ok, well a “penis” in male nematodes is actually a hard copulatory spine called a genital spicule–males physically pry open the female’s vulva–but you get the idea. What better way to open a blog post ...

Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A ...

Biologists are studying the biological diversity the island, Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Réunion is to Ralf Sommer and Matthias Herrmann from the Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in ...

Have you ever pulled up vegetable plants such as tomatoes or peppers at the end of the growing season and noticed bumps along the underground portion of the stem or on the roots? Did you wonder what ...

The transition by certain nematode worms to plant parasitism, and possibly more generally to herbivory, is illuminated by an investigation into how nematodes acquired the protein weapons to penetrate ...

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