Nematodas Flashcards
How are they comapred to mollusca
They are species complex
Where are they found and their form
Marine
Maiofauna ( biomonitoring)
In parasitic form eg threadworms or pin worms
What are they important for
Biomonitoring
What forms can namatode take
Parasitic worms the most
Eg. Threadworms and pinworms
How many nematodes yet to be found - diversity
3 million per square meter (soil)
Model org - C elegans - free living soil nematodes
Phylum nematode -> Protostome clade-> ecdysozoa
Describe protosomes claded
Extraordinary diverse
Ectysozoa - 3 subclass
Divided based on molecular similarities
Some structural too
List the 3 subclasses of ecdysozoa
Scalidophota
Panarthropoda
Nematoida
Q- Why are they placed here with the arthropod and not with annelis
Shed their Cuticle in order to grow
Characterostocs of nematods
T- Triplobastic, bilateral , vermiform, unseg, blastocoelomates / pseudocoelomate (most common)while others are acpelomates
B- cylindrical body
P- pointed at ant and post
C- have a thick , multilayered cuticle
J- juveniles molt
- longitudinal muscles and not cir muscles diff with ANNELIDS
- sense organs - cephalic. Caudal/ohasmids
- no circulatory, resp system
- complete dig system
- Unique secretory -excretory system ( have rennettes cells or set of collecting ducts)
- epidermal is cellular or syncitial, not cilliated
- long epidermal nerve cords
- gonochotistics - many diff modes
- eutely
- free living and parasitic
Describe the pseudocoelom
- gut not lined with cells drived from mesoderm
How are nutrient circulated
Diffusion and oasmois
Effects of pesudocoelomate
No circular muscles or supporting mesetaries
Organs held loosley and not well developed
No circulation system , therefore through diffusion.
Describe the cuticle of nematode
Flexible - you see how it goes wiggly woogly, that also means it is lighter and thinner then mineral skeletons eg bivalves
No cillia , chitin, and emzymes (metabolically active)
Which form need cillia
Parasitic forms
Nemotoda lacks cillia
Why are enzymes present on the cuticle
Metabolically active
What is the diff btw nematoda and bivalves
Thinner and lighter then mineral skelton (bivalaves)
What is absent in the free living form of nematoda?
Inner cuticle layer thicker (fibrous layer) in terrestrial and parasitic form
Cilia is also needed in parasitic worm
How is the tegument in trematode & cestode different compared to Cuticle in nematode
Cestode (tapewprms) have microtriches and trematode (flukeworms) and nematodes DONT have microtriches
Tegumemt in trematode - made of multiple layers whole tegument is one expended layer , amd syncytial
Tegument in cestode is not multilayered but is syncytial with microtriches
Cuticle in nematode (no tegumemt) is multilayered but not syncytial
What is the imp Cuticle
Support
Movement
Prevent drying - cuticle is semipermeables due to the lipids
Role in secretion, excretion and substances uptake
How do nematoda grow
Shed by molting (3-4molts - instar to adult)
Controled by hormones
Regularly shed cuticle via excdysis (or molting)
In arthropods - the hormone controll is the ecdysozo, but ecdysozo doesnt control molting in nematoda
How is the outer body look like
Can be varied:
Smooth
Sensory setae
Wartlike bump
Ridges
Grooves
Epidermis of nematoda
Cellular to syncytial
Thicken sinto ventral, dorsal & lateral longitudinal cords
Muscles in nematoda
Have Longitudinal muscles - 4 quadrants
Muscles connected to dorsal and ventral nerval cords by muscle arm rather than nerve extension in the neuron
How is the muscles connection dif compared to other animals
Other animals Should have Netve extension in the neuron
Can nematodes use perastaltic burrowing …..
No, they dont have cir muscles
Movement in nematodes - how do they move
Have waves of long mus contraction
They travel back over the org
Propeells the body formward
But also
They act against the hydrostautic skl and cuticle (imp of cuticle)
Free living form - need to have contract in subs to occur
Modes of feeding for nematode
Carnivores (plankton, benthic)
Deposits
Detritivores
Microscavengers (feed on fungi &bacteria on dead org or fecal )
Plant parasites of plants - nematodes use stylets
Chemautrophic bacterial symbiosis in gut or cuticle ( eg sulfide rich envr)
Regional specilization of nematodes
Mouth surr by 6 lips ass with papilae and cuticular flaps
Spines, teeth, jaws
All these structure are ringly arranged around the mouth itself