Friday, April 28, 2017
The research includes the description of a new species of plant parasitic nematode Mesocriconema nebraskense. The research is also an analysis of a group of plant parasitic nematodes that exhibit high levels of diversity in tall grass prairies, but lack diversity in degraded grasslands.
Title: “Species Delimitation and Description of Mesocriconema nebraskense n. sp. (Nematode: Criconematidae), a Morphologically Cryptic, Parthenogenetic Species from North American Grasslands”.
Co-authors include: Timothy Harris, Rebecca Higgins, Peter Mullin, Kirsten Powers, Sean Olson and Thomas Powers.