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ONE of the major difficulties in the work of helminthologists has been to differentiate between living and dead nematodes. According to Lapage1, most of those who have studied the metabolism of these worms have taken their failure to move either as a result of or without the action of a stimulus as an indication that they are not alive.
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Lapage, G., "Nematodes Parasitic in Animals" (London, 1937).
Baunacke, W., Untersuchungen zur Biologie und Bekämpfung des Rubennematoden (Heterodera schachtii, Schmidt). Arb. Biol. Reichamst. Land. u. Forstw., XI (1922).
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BOYD, A. Determination of Death in the Larvæ of the Potato Root Eelworm. Nature 148, 782–783 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148782b0
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