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Prevalence and habitat specificity of steinernematid and heterorhabditid nematodes isolated during soil surveys of the UK and the Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

W.M. Hominick ,
A.P. Reid  and
B.R. Briscoe
W.M. Hominick*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks. SL5 7PY, UK
A.P. Reid*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks. SL5 7PY, UK
B.R. Briscoe*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks. SL5 7PY, UK
*
Current address for all authors: International Institute of Parasitology, 395A Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. AL4 0XU, UK
Current address for all authors: International Institute of Parasitology, 395A Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. AL4 0XU, UK
Current address for all authors: International Institute of Parasitology, 395A Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. AL4 0XU, UK
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Abstract

Entomopathogenic nematodes were isolated from soil samples collected during three separate surveys, two in the United Kingdom and one in the Netherlands. The nematodes were identified by their restriction fragment length polymorphisms on hybridization of Southern blots with a ribosomal DNA repeat unit clone. A total of eight steinernematid species/RFLP types and two heterorhabditids were isolated. The distributions of the majority of these species/RFLP types were significantly different between the three surveys and some of the species displayed a close association with certain habitat types.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 27 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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