Caenorhabditis nematodes colonize ephemeral resource patches in neotropical forests.
S. A. Sloat, L. M. Noble, A. B. Paaby, M. Bernstein, A. Chang, T. Kaur, J. Yuen, S. C. Tintori, J. L. Jackson, A. Martel, J. A. Salome Correa, L. Stevens, M. Blaxter, M. V. Rockman
The paper investigates Caenorhabditis nematode species composition and colonization dynamics in tropical forests, finding globally distributed androdiecious species dominate and colonization occurs via phoresy with low founder numbers.
bioRxiv · Jan 13, 2022Ecology