A study published January 18 in the journal Science Advances found that they use a nerve gas to poison and paralyze nematodes and then slurp out the insides. [Related: Soil fungi are spreading ...

Nematodes, also called roundworms, are little animals complete with guts, nerves, muscles and their ... better to disperse the fungus—before the ring inevitably injects itself into the nematode ...

elegans are nematodes that feed on bacteria found ... But almost two thirds of the worm's nerve cells form a ring in the head region, where they make thousands of connections with each other.

They found that the pharynx and head muscles of poisoned nematodes were flooded with calcium and that this calcium did not go away, leading to widespread nerve and muscle-cell death. They ...

Oyster mushrooms are delicious, but they have a little-known dark side: the fungus that produces them paralyses and kills nematode worms using a nerve gas, before sucking out their insides.

Biologists genetically manipulated nematode worms so the animals were ... and is not caused solely by extra nerve cells added to the male or female brain," says laboratory leader and biology ...

Now, University of Utah researchers studying mutant nematode worms, whose nerves literally break due to their inability to express beta spectrin, may explain the coordination deficits observed in ...

New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting ... suggest that if this virus is infecting or damaging human nerve or brain tissue, that could explain the symptoms of ...

"The reason males and females behave differently is that the same nerve cells have been rewired to alter sexual preference." Nematodes, which live in the soil and eat bacteria, have the same genes ...

Cyst nematodes are among the most meddlesome and destructive parasites known. They live on, feed off and ultimately destroy the vegetables on the plants that host them. Intriguingly, however, that ...

In the current study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, there were also negative effects when the nematode took up the silica from the environment. The degradation of nerve cells ...