Mesorhabditis

Mesorhabditis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Rhabditidae
Genus:	Mesorhabditis; Osche, 1952
Species
	Mesorhabditis acris; Mesorhabditis ansisomorpha; Mesorhabditis acidophila; Mesorhabditis belari; Mesorhabditis irregularis; Mesorhabditis longespiculosa; Mesorhabditis minuta; Mesorhabditis oschei; Mesorhabditis spiculigera;
Synonyms
	Bursilla Andrássy, 1976

Mesorhabditis is a genus of nematodes.

Species in the genus Mesorhabditis exhibit an unusual form of parthenogenesis, in which sperm-producing males copulate with females, but the sperm do not fuse with the ovum. Contact with the sperm is essential for the ovum to begin dividing, but because there is no fusion of the cells, the male contributes no genetic material to the offspring, which are essentially clones of the female.

References

^ Mesorhabditis minuta n. sp. from Greece (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). S Boström, Revue de Nématologie, 1991

Problems in New Zealand mushroom production associated with bacterial feeding nematodes (Mesorhabditis sp.). FR Sanderson, JW Marshall, GE Ovenden, HM Stengs - … , 1981/edited by NG Nair, AD …, 1981
Systematik, Phylogenie und Okologie der holzbewohnenden Nematoden Gruppe Rhabditis (Mesorhabditis) und das Problem" geschlechtsbezogener" … W Sudhaus, 1978

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[1] Mesorhabditis minuta n. sp. from Greece (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). S Boström, Revue de Nématologie, 1991

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