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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 adult is 60% shorter than the wild type. There is almost no longitudinal growth after the infective juvenile stage....
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