Other Nematodes - A Guide for C. elegans Researchers | ||||
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"Other Nematodes - A Guide for C. elegans Researchers" is contributed to the Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server by Jim McCarter, Post-doc, and Todd Wylie, Informatics, Parasitic Nematode EST Project, Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University, St. Louis (www.nematode.net). Lists are not all-inclusive but are meant to provide a starting point. Please send corrections and recommendations to twylie@watson.wustl.edu and mccarter@genetics.wustl.edu. C. elegans is one of 10,000 known nematode species. The actual number may be more than 100,000. In terms of individuals, nematodes account for an estimated four of every five animals in the world. Parasitic nematodes are major challenges to human health and agriculture. Parasitic nematodes, including whipworm, Ascaris, hookworm, and filarial worms, currently infect about 3 billion people. Plant parasitic nematodes, such as root knot nematode, cause an estimated 80 billion dollars in crop damage annually. Much of the knowledge of nematode anatomy, development, genetics, and genomics gained from the study of C. elegans is transferable to the study of other nematodes. This page is designed to aid C. elegans researchers new to the study of parasitic nematodes or other non- Caenorhabditis species in finding the information they desire. -J.M.* | ||||
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Return to C. elegans WWW Server Main Page *References for statistics above: Kaestner, A. Invertebrate Zoology, Interscience Publishers, New
York, p.228, 1967. Platt, H. M. Foreword. In The Phylogenetic Systematics of Free-living
Nematodes, S. Lorenzen, ed., pp.i-ii, The Ray Society, London. 1994. Markell, E. K., et al.
Medical Parasitology, W. B. Saunders and Company, Philadelphia, 1986. Barker, K. R., et al.
"Plant and Soil Nematodes: Societal Impact and Focus on the Future," Report by the Committee on
National Needs and Priorities in Nematology, USA, 1994.
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