Myrmeconema neotropicum is a tetradonematid nematode parasite. It appears to induce fruit mimicry in the tropical ant. Presently the only known host species...
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climb grass stems, to help the parasite find mates. A nematode (Myrmeconema neotropicum) that infects canopy ants (Cephalotes atratus) causes the black-coloured...
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dendriticum, Diplostomum pseudospathaceum,[citation needed] and Myrmeconema neotropicum. The lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) is a parasitic...
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between hosts, allowing it to complete its life cycle. A nematode (Myrmeconema neotropicum) changes the colour of the abdomen of workers of the canopy ant...
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atratus suffer from an infection by the tetradonematid nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum. It causes the ant's abdomen to turn from black to bright red,...
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brood. This ant is the only known definitive host of the nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum. The ants bring infected bird faeces back to the colony to feed...
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ripens. A parasitic tetradonematid nematode discovered in 2005, Myrmeconema neotropicum, induces fruit mimicry in the tropical ant Cephalotes atratus....
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applied biological control. Poinar, G & Stephen P. Yanoviak (2008). "Myrmeconema neotropicum n. g., n. sp., a new tetradonematid nematode parasitising South...
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