Claim · model-written summary
Males have a low head cap and a smooth head region.
- Taxon
- American sycamore
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Platanus occidentalise0 - Organ / stage
- Malese6
- Outcome
- head cap and smooth head regione6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Meloidogyne platani n. sp. is described and illustrated from specimens obtained from roots of American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis, in Virginia”
e6“Males have a low head cap and smooth head region”
Title
Meloidogyne platani n. sp. (Meloidogynidae), a Root-knot Nematode Parasitizing American Sycamore.
H Hirschmann PubMed 1982
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Meloidogyne platani n. sp. was described and illustrated from roots of American sycamore in Virginia.
- Observation Females of the new species have a rounded perineal pattern with fine wavy to zig-zag striae.
- Observation The female stylet is 16.5 mum long with large, rounded knobs set off from the shaft.
- Observation The male stylet (styler) length is 22.0 mum, with rounded knobs set off from the shaft.
- Observation Mean second-stage juvenile length is 443.0 mum.
- Observation Mean second-stage juvenile stylet length is 12.2 mum.
- Observation Juveniles have a head region that is not annulated and a tail with a definite terminus.
- Observation The nematode causes severe galling on sycamore.
- Observation The nematode reproduces well on sycamore.
- Observation White ash is a good host of the nematode.
- Observation Tobacco cv. NC 95 is a good host of the nematode.
- Observation The nematode reproduces by mitotic parthenogenesis.
- Observation The somatic chromosome number of the nematode is approximately 45 (2n).