Abstract
A new species of nematode of the genus Heterorhabditis (Nemata: Heterorhabditidae) was found during a survey of the soil entomopathogenic nematode fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Heterorhabditis hawaiiensis sp. n. can be separated from all other species of Heterorhabditis by the length of the infective juvenile and the morphological characters of the spicules, gubernaculum, and bursa. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fragment analysis showed that this species also has a distinct genetic pattern in RAPD bands relative to the other 6 species or isolates of Heterorhabditis that were compared.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 100-106 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Parasitology |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Parasitology
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics