Morphological mutant in the entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a111374

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Morphological mutant in the entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Rahimi F R, McGuire T R, Gaugler R

Abstract excerpt

Heterorhabditis bacteriophora is an entomopathogenic nematode that has potential as a biological control agent. As a first step in the genetic analysis of this nematode, we induced and isolated a short nematode (dumpy) from the F2 progeny of an EMS mutagenized nematode. Phenotypically, the dumpy...

Topics

Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Ethyl Methanesulfonate
Female
Genetic Complementation Test
Male
Moths
Mutation
Pest Control, Biological
Rhabditoidea

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