This paper discusses nematode behaviour adaptations in relation to various ecological and environmental conditions, and analyses the significance of ongoing adaptive processes in nematode behaviour and their role in practical applications.

This book provides a unique, comprehensive review of current knowledge of the behaviour of nematodes. Key topics including locomotion, orientation, feeding, osmoregulation, excretion, ageing and reproductive behaviour, and biotic and abiotic interactions are reviewed. The physiological, biochemical ...

This paper presents a comparative account of the feeding behaviour of plant-parasitic, predatory, insect-parasitic and microbivore nematodes, focusing on the structure and function of the feeding apparatus, feeding types, behavioural aspects of food search and feeding mechanisms, post-feeding...

This paper considers all types of nematode reproductive mechanisms and the traditional and non-traditional reproductive behavioural characteristics that accompany them. Various aspects related to the diversity in nematode reproductive biology are discussed, including sex determination and...

Ageing is defined as the time-independent series of cumulative, progressive, intrinsic and deleterious functional and structural changes that usually begin to manifest themselves at reproductive maturity and eventually culminate in death. This paper describes age-dependent nematode behaviour during ...

This paper discusses the ecological and behavioural physiology of osmoregulation and excretion in free living and animal parasitic nematodes. It integrates these two mechanisms so as to explain the changes in nematode behaviour occurring due to osmotic stresses and excretion of nitrogenous waste...

This paper discusses the physiological and biochemical (including some molecular) aspects of the behavioural responses of free living and plant parasitic nematodes.

This paper describes the various aspects of nematode behaviour at the molecular level using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model. It also discusses how classic and reverse genetic approaches may be employed to elucidate the molecular basis of behaviour.

This paper discusses how nematodes interact with beneficial and antagonistic organisms, including members of their own species, what causes interactions to occur, and how these interactions affect nematode behaviour. It describes different types of interactions, e.g. phoresy, antagonism, predation...

This chapter focuses on the behavioural responses of nematodes to abiotic factors in their environment, including energy (temperature, electromagnetic waves, electrical field/charge and gravity), chemical (oxygen, carbon dioxide, other chemicals and pH) and physical factors (mechanoreception, soil...