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Species
Pine Wood Nematode
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumNematoda
- ClassChromadorea
- OrderRhabditida
- FamilyAphelenchoididae
Bursaphelenchus是線蟲的一個屬。本屬物種的食性基本上都以真菌為食（英语：mycophage），但有兩個物種以木為食，分別為Bursaphelenchus cocophilus和Bursaphelenchus xylophilus，分別是椰樹和松樹的重要寄生蟲。本屬物種的分類，除非有受過訓練的蠕蟲學家（英语：helminthologist）輔以顯微鏡或DNA排序 分析，否則要辨別並不容易。因此部分國家會將本屬所有物種均列入要隔離的類別。然而如果情況並非如此，這些線蟲其實很適合作為線蟲的發育生物學、生態學和遺傳學的模式生物。 截至2009年 (2009-Missing required parameter 1=month!)[update]，本屬物種估計有約70 到 90個。新的分類單元仍然時常出現。
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Bursaphelenchus is a genus of nematodes (roundworms) in the order Aphelenchida. Most are obligate mycophages, but some feed on wood, with two species, the red ring nematode (B. cocophilus) and the pine wood nematode (B. xylophilus), economically significant as pests of coconut palms and of pine trees, respectively. Given that Bursaphelenchus species are usually hard to distinguish from one another except by trained nematologists with access to microscopes or DNA sequence analysis, the entire genus is put under quarantine in some countries. Where this is not the case however, these nematodes are becoming established as model organisms for nematode developmental biology, ecology and genetics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bursaphelenchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.