What is it about?
Cactodera torreyane is a cyst nematode that live in very salty soil in a plant call romerito, that the mexicans eat as delicasy, this specie is the unic from all belong to the Heteroderidae family that complete its life cycle aonly attached to the roots, not penetrate inside like the others species.
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Why is it important?
This paper and the second that I did about the life cycle, is interesting from the evolution of the parasitism, may be is the beginer of the endoparasitism, but before was ignore
Perspectives
Nematologist that their area of reseach is evolution will found in the manuscript information that can help them in undesrtand better the evolution of parasitismo in nematodes.
Ignacio Cid del Prado Vera
Colegio de Postgraduados
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This page is a summary of: A new cyst nematode, Cactodera torreyanae sp. n. (Tylenchida: Heteroderidae), parasitising romerito, Suaeda torreyana, in Texcoco, Mexico, Nematology, January 2014, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15685411-00002754.
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