More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

Marine organisms belonging to meiofauna (size range: 20–500 μm) are amongst the most
abundant and highly diversified metazoans on Earth including 22 over 35 known animal …

Background The identification of free-living marine nematodes is difficult because of the
paucity of easily scorable diagnostic morphological characters. Consequently, molecular …

A total of 27 strains of Oculatella were isolated, characterized and sequenced, and analysed
phylogenetically with an additional environmental clone from the Atacama Desert and 10 …

To the public at large, the phylum Nematoda is mostly known by its pathogenic species,
causing some of the most infectious diseases in humans and animals and more crop losses …

The rapid pace of species discovery outstrips the rate of species description in many taxa.
This problem is especially acute for Caenorhabditis nematodes, where the naming of distinct …

High‐throughput sequencing has the potential to describe biological communities with high
efficiency yet comprehensive assessment of diversity with species‐level resolution remains …

Plant–animal interactions (PAI) represent major channels of energy transfer through
ecosystems, where both positive and antagonistic interactions simultaneously contribute to …

Nematodes are among the most successful metazoans inhabiting the Earth and they are
pivotal components as in terrestrial as in aquatic (both in marine and freshwater) …

Biological diversity is depleting at an alarming rate. Additionally, a vast amount of
biodiversity still remains undiscovered. Taxonomy has been serving the purpose of …