<i>Steinernema nematode</i> (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

<i>Steinernema nematode</i>

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A newly hatched Steinernema carpocapsae juvenile (shown here, scale bar 50 μm) is only about 0.25 mm (less than 1/100 of an inch) long with a gonad only 0.013 mm in length. During development, the worm will increase over 10 times in length (in comparison, the average human only increases about 4 fold in height from birth to adulthood) and its gonad increases almost 500 times in length.

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Nathan Schroeder, University of Illinois.

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