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<p>The reproductive strategy of the pinewood nematode (PWN), <italic>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus</italic>, is sexual amphimictic and oviparous. The incidence of intrauterine egg development and hatching in plant-parasitic nematodes is not a very common phenomenon. During the process of maintaining and breeding a <italic>B. xylophilus</italic> population isolated in Spain under laboratory conditions, evidence of matricidal hatching was observed. This is the first described case of this phenomenon in this species.</p>
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The reproductive strategy of the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is sexual amphimictic and oviparous. The incidence of intrauterine egg development and hatching in plant-parasitic nematodes is not a very common phenomenon. During the process of maintaining and breeding a B. xylophilus population isolated in Spain under laboratory conditions, evidence of matricidal hatching was observed. This is the first described case of this phenomenon in this species.

First Report of Matricidal Hatching in <italic>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus</italic>


Journal of Nematology

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The reproductive strategy of the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is sexual amphimictic and oviparous. The incidence of intrauterine egg...

First Report of Matricidal Hatching in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Published Online: Sep 26, 2018

Page range: 390 - 395

Received: Jun 28, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2017-087

Keywords
detection, endotokia matricida, laboratory conditions, matricidal hatching, morphology, nematode reproduction, physiology, pinewood nematode

© 2017 ADELA ABELLEIRA et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

First Report of Matricidal Hatching in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Published Online: Sep 26, 2018

Page range: 390 - 395

Received: Jun 28, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2017-087

Keywordsdetection, endotokia matricida, laboratory conditions, matricidal hatching, morphology, nematode reproduction, physiology, pinewood nematode

© 2017 ADELA ABELLEIRA et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
detection, endotokia matricida, laboratory conditions, matricidal hatching, morphology, nematode reproduction, physiology, pinewood nematode