Mate or hibernate? That's the question worm pheromones answer
... in length, is harmless to humans, many nematodes destroy crops or act as parasites in humans and animals, such as the large human intestinal parasite ascaris lumbricoides. Because it is easy to grow and manipulate in the laboratory, C. elegans is a model for understanding the basic biology of humans, anim...Poor Americans in the United States suffer hidden burden of parasitic and other neglected diseases
...the neglected diseases above, significant numbers of American schoolchildren living in poor areas may also be infected with other parasites, including ascaris roundworms in the South, Strongyloides threadworms in Appalachia, Leishmania protozoan parasites in Texas, and the bacteria that cause leptospirosis. ...Biolistic Gene Transfer to Generate Transgenic Schistosomes, Rev A
...shed or reproducibly applied. Recently, the first experiments were reported to introduce DNA or RNA into the parasitic nematode, ascaris lumbricoides, by particle bombardment (Davis et al. 1999). In the same study, the first evidence was obtained that this method c...