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roundworm

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roundworm, another name for a nematode. See phylum Nematoda Nematoda (nĕm'ətōd`ə)
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To the Editor: In the past 20 years, Baylisascaris procyonis, the common intestinal roundworm of raccoons, has increasingly been recognized as a source of severe human neurologic disease that particularly affects children (1,2).
When publishing their first paper on RNAi, notes Fire, he and Mello "envisioned that we'd be able to do a lot of things in worms," such as shutting off particular roundworm genes one by one to determine their function.
There's a microscopic roundworm called the pinewood nematode that bores into trees.
 
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