date:Jul 17, 2018
Nematodes. There may be no other creature so omnipresent around us yet so unknown outside of specialist circles. Nathan Augustus Cobb, widely recognized as the father of nematology summed up their ubiquity in a 1915 essay: If all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable, and if we could then investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes, and oceans represented by a film of nematodes.
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