Publications

morphological, molecular, and differential-host characterization of meloidogyne floridensis n. sp. (nematoda: meloidogynidae), a root-knot nematode parasitizing peach in florida.	a root-knot nematode, meloidogyne floridensis n. sp., is described and illustrated from peach originally collected from gainesville, florida. this new species resembles m. incognita, m. christiei, m. graminicola, and m. hispanica, but with lm and sem observations it differs from these species either by the body length, shape of head, tail and tail terminus of second-stage juveniles, body length and shape of spicules in males, and its distinctive female perineal pattern. this pattern has a high t ...	2004	19262784
the complex hybrid origins of the root knot nematodes revealed through comparative genomics.	root knot nematodes (rkn) can infect most of the world's agricultural crop species and are among the most important of all plant pathogens. as yet however we have little understanding of their origins or the genomic basis of their extreme polyphagy. the most damaging pathogens reproduce by obligatory mitotic parthenogenesis and it has been suggested that these species originated from interspecific hybridizations between unknown parental taxa. we have sequenced the genome of the diploid meiotic p ...	2014	24860695