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 ...

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 focuses on the spatial distribution and seasonal dynamics/fluctuations in populations of soil and plant-parasitic, insect- and animal-parasitic, and marine and freshwater nematodes. It also describes the changes in behaviour during migration and identifies environmental conditions...

Recent research developments on the classical and molecular genetics of entomopathogenic nematodes including technology transfer of research methodology from Caenorhabditis elegans are discussed. The potential use of the entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbionts as excellent model systems to...