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Author: F. SHAHINA Publishing Date: 2004 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume 23 Issue 1 ABSTRACT: Plant parasitic species belonging to order Tylenchida and Aphelenchida, soil and sewerage water nematodes belonging to Rhabditida, Diplogastrida, Cephalobida, Dorylaimida, Mononchida Enoplida, Chromodorida and Monhysterida were studied. These nematodes belonging to 88 genera, 45 families and 10 orders have been identified. New genera and new species are being further studied. A total […]

Author: F. SHAHINA Publishing Date: 2005 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume 23 Issue 1 ABSTRACT: Discolaimium capitulum sp. n., D. brachyurum and D. upum of the subfamily Siddiqi, 1969 are described and illustrated. Discolamium capitulum sp. n. was collected from soil around roots of mango in Karachi University campus and from rice fields of Larkana and Dokri, Sindh, Pakistan. It is characterized by body length of

Author: K.A. TABASSUM, F. SHAHINA, K. FIROZA AND M.R. SIDDIQI Publishing Date: 2004 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume 23 Issue 1 ABSTRACT: Insect parasitic nematode Distolabrellus pakistanensis sp. n. was reared in laboratory and is described from Pakistan. It is characterized by having a continuous head, angular cleft between lips not sclerotised, promesostome not diverge, 3 lateral lines, pore-like vulva, L= 1.3- 1.8 µm; b= 6.9-8.4;

Author: F. SHAHINA, Y.I. ERUM AND M.R. SIDDIQI Publishing Date: 2005 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume 23 Issue 1 ABSTRACT: Present work concerns the nygolaim nematodes belonging to the genus Nygolaimus Cobb, 1913. Accounts of the morphology of these nematodes with particular eference to those characters which are of taxonomic importance have been given. Two new species, Nygolaimus neominimus and N. gigantus, from

Author: S.A. KHANZADA, A. MUNIR AND L.K. KHOKHAR Publishing Date: 2005 E-ISSN: 0255-7576 Volume 23 Issue 1 ABSTRACT: A survey of shisham (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) trees was carried out at National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad. A number of trees were found dead, partially dying but looking healthy. Soil samples were taken from around the rhizosphere of these trees and nematode population