Systematics of the Sheath Nematodes of the Superfamily Hemicycliophoroidea

John J. Chitambar, Ph. D. (1983) in Plant Pathology (Nematology), University of California, Davis, California, USA, is presently serving as Senior Plant Nematologist and Primary State Nematologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, USA. He has addressed several nematological issues in government documentations as well as published many articles in nematological and science journals.Sergei A. Subbotin, Ph.D. (1987) in Helminthology (Nematology), Institute of Helminthology, Russia, is presently serving as Senior Nematologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, USA, and has associate positions as Guest Professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and as Scientist at University of California, USA and Center of Parasitology, Russia. He has published more than 100 articles in nematological and molecular journals.

• DedicationForewordPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Systematics of the superfamily Hemicycliophoroidea2. Morphology3. Biology4. Ecology5. Phylogenetic relationships6. Molecular diagnostics7. Systematics of the family Hemicycliophoridae8. Systematics of the genus Hemicycliophora9. Polytomous key to the species of Hemicycliophora10. Dichotomous key to the species of Hemicycliophora11. Description and diagnosis of Hemicycliophora species12. Systematics of the family Caloosiidae13. Systematics of the genus Caloosia14. Systematics of the genus HemicaloosiaReferencesIndex of nematode Latin namesIndex of plant Latin names

I would warmly recommend this handy compendium for the nematode taxonomist studying the biodiversity of plant-parasitic nematodes. As I know from experience with my Master and PhD students, there is a real need for such monographs that compile the information of all species and provide identification keys. Wilfrida DecraemerNematology News, 2015, Volume 76, No. 1"The [book] is excellent! Not only are all the species well treated but the vast literature containing remarks and measurements about well known species is also included. [...] I sincerely hope that other nematologists [...] will start writing such books as several (super)families still need to be examined. They can use this book by Chitambar and Subbotin as a good example."Etienne Geraert, Ghent University, in: Nematology, 2014, vol. 16 (10), 1241"The authors must be congratulated for their immense hard work in doing a wonderful job of compiling and analyzing all the information on sheath nematodes and putting them at one place in this book for easy access for all the researchers interested in nematode taxonomy and systematics. Not only that, the authors worked hard to incorporate the molecular taxonomic data wherever available." - Sudershan Ganguly and Vishal Singh Somvanshi, Indian Agricultural Research Institute