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Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) are a group of nematodes (thread worms), that cause death to insects. The term entomopathogenic has a Greek origin, with entomon, meaning insect, and pathogenic, which means causing disease. They are animals that occupy a bio control middle ground between microbial pathogens and predator/parasitoids. Although many other parasitic thread worms cause diseases in living organisms (sterilizing or otherwise debilitating their host), entomopathogenic nematodes are specific in only infecting insects. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) live parasitically inside the infected insect host, and so they are termed as endoparasitic. They infect many different types of insects living in the soil like the larval forms of moths, butterflies, flies and beetles as well as adult forms of beetles, grasshoppers and crickets. EPNs have been found all over the world in a range of ecologically diverse habitats. They are highly diverse, complex and specialized. The most commonly studied entomopathogenic nematodes are those that can be used in the biological control of harmful insects, the members of Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae. They are the only insect-parasitic nematodes possessing an optimal balance of biological control attributes.
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Entomopathogenicnematodes (EPN) are a group of nematodes (thread worms), that cause death to insects. The term entomopathogenic has a Greek origin, with...
of insect-parasitic and entomopathogenicnematodes". In Kaya, Harry K.; Bedding, Robin A.; Akhurst, Raymond J. (eds.). Nematodes and the Biological Control...
ability to detect and avoid certain entomopathogenic fungi.[citation needed] Biopesticide Entomopathogenicnematode LUBILOSA and Desert locust for more...
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora is a species of entomopathogenicnematode known commonly as beneficial nematodes. They are microscopic and are used in gardening...
Steinernema carpocapsae is an entomopathogenicnematode and a member of the family Steinernematidae. It is a parasitic roundworm that has evolved an insect-killing...
Several species of entomopathogenicnematode are important predators of insect and other invertebrate pests. Entomopathogenicnematodes form a stress–resistant...
mortality of bush lupine in the absence of entomopathogenicnematodes. These results implied that the nematode, as a natural enemy of the ghost moth caterpillar...
uniprot.org. Hunt, David J.; Nguyen, Khuong B. (2016). Advances in EntomopathogenicNematode Taxonomy and Phylogeny. BRILL. ISBN 9789004285347. "Steinernema"...
of insects. It lives in the gut of an entomopathogenicnematode of the family Heterorhabditidae. When the nematode infects an insect, P. luminescens is...
Sphaerularia bombi is an entomopathogenicnematode. It is parasite of bumblebees. It infects and sterilizes gynes or potential queens of bumblebees. Sphaerularia...
separate though related problem when compared to that of grubs. Entomopathogenicnematodes have been identified by researchers as an effective biological...
usage. Soil tilling can be used to remove larvae hatching. Entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes can effectively remove beetles at larvae stage. Cockchafers...
entomopathogenicnematodes from the genus Steinernema. Although no free-living forms of Xenorhabdus have ever been isolated outside of the nematode host...
One method is using nematodes, specifically the Korean EntomopathogenicNematode. In a study investigating multiple nematodes on A. orientalis populations...
species, it lies dormant until the host dies naturally. Conversely, entomopathogenicnematodes (or EPNs) such as Steinernema and Heterorhabditis also thrive...
bioluminescent, gram-negative bacilli which lives symbiotically within entomopathogenicnematodes, hence the name photo (which means light producing) and rhabdus...
sometimes as high as 80 percent. They are also hosts for fungi, entomopathogenicnematodes and viruses, and prey for ground beetles. Smit, Bernard, "Insects...
centres. Besides their environmental benefits, certain 'cruiser' entomopathogenicnematode species (see below) have the additional capacity to search for...
pacificus, model invertebrate (2008) Romanomermis culicivorax, entomopathogenicnematode that invades larvae of various mosquito species (2013) Trichuris...
has also been isolated from Bacillus cereus associated with the entomopathogenicnematode Rhabditis (Oscheius) sp. and shown to have antifungal activity...
are damaged by leaf beetle larvae; this chemical attracts the entomopathogenicnematode species Heterorhabditis megidis. Only certain maize varieties...
species of nematodes belonging to the family Steinernematidae. The species is found in United States. They are an entomopathogenicnematode of termites...
yield. Megaselia are naturally infected by Howardula nematodes, however entomopathogenicnematodes do not readily control M. halterata. Adult mushroom...
"Description of Xenorhabdus khoisanae sp. nov., the symbiont of the entomopathogenicnematode Steinernema khoisanae". International Journal of Systematic and...
suggests that it may be possible to use entomopathogenicnematodes such as Heterorhabditis indica. This nematode is deadly to full-grown larvae that inhabit...
control their populations, including their endemic bacteriaand entomopathogenicnematodes. The species can be found throughout Europe, extending into Turkey...
Dong, H.; Qian, H.; Cong, B. (2014). "Laboratory Assessment of EntomopathogenicNematode Symbiotic Bacteria to Control Maize Pest, Ostrinia furnacalis...
the Photorhabdus luminescens bacterial symbiont species of the entomopathogenicnematode, Heterorhabditis megidis. Experiments with infected larvae of...
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