Nematocida

Nematocida is a genus of Microsporidia fungi. One species, N. parisii, is found in wild isolates of Caenorhabditis elegans. It has been nicknamed the nematode-killer from Paris. This species replicates in the intestines of C. elegans.[1]

Nematocida
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incertae sedis
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Nematocida
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Nematode cuticle

is a cuticle that includes fibers such as keratin, collagen, and some that run around in opposite directions from each other. This has a flexible extracellular exoskeleton structure that has many layers, (but is very stiff) and that has a barrier that helps prevent nematodes from natural and ecological harm that may happen. These may have powerful agents that are used to recognize, attach, penetrate and kill theses parasitic nematodes.[2]

References

  1. Cuomo, C. A.; Desjardins, C. A.; Bakowski, M. A.; Goldberg, J.; Ma, A. T.; Becnel, J. J.; Didier, E. S.; Fan, L.; Heiman, D. I.; Levin, J. Z.; Young, S.; Zeng, Q.; Troemel, E. R. (2012-07-18). "Microsporidian genome analysis reveals evolutionary strategies for obligate intracellular growth". Genome Research. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 22 (12): 2478–2488. doi:10.1101/gr.142802.112. ISSN 1088-9051.
  2. Niu, Qiuhong; Huang, Xiaowei; Zhang, Lin; Lian, Lihui; Li, Yunxia; Li, Juan; Yang, Jinkui; Zhang, Keqin (2007). "Functional identification of the gene bace16 from nematophagous bacterium Bacillus nematocida". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 75 (1): 141–148. doi:10.1007/s00253-006-0794-7. ISSN 0175-7598.


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