Nematode Communication
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- Witzany, Guenther
Abstract
Nematodes, a diverse animal phylum that comprises an estimated million species, inhabit very broad ranges of ecological niches throughout earth. These animals, ranging from microscopic to a meter in size, are extremely successful in adapting different environments and have different lifestyles as free-living or parasitic to plants, animals and humans. As a result, nematodes have evolved to communicate with a wide variety of organisms that they live and interact with, including microbes, plants, insects, other animals, and nematodes of the same and different species. These communications play a key role in the mutualism, parasitism, predatory and prey, host and pathogen relationships between nematodes and other organisms and are critical to the ecological fitness of nematodes. In this chapter, we highlight examples of different types of communication among the nematodes and between nematodes and their natural trophic partners, and discuss their implications in nematode evolution.
Additional Information
© 2014 Springer. Date: 21 August 2013. We thank our many collaborators and colleagues for making the study of nematode communication exciting and enjoyable, and for many conversations. We thank Hillel Schwartz for critical comments on the manuscript. PWS is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. D. L. is supported by National Institutes of Health USPHS training grant, GM07616.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 78575
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-7414-8_21
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170626-140737808
- GM07616
- NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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