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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
 
The structure of a nematode is intimately related to its function and its life cycle. Although there are common traits throughout the phylum there is also great diversity allowing each species to occupy a niche in which it may thrive.
 
The structure of a nematode is intimately related to its function and its life cycle. Although there are common traits throughout the phylum there is also great diversity allowing each species to occupy a niche in which it may thrive.
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Female nematodes usually have a single genital pore through which sperm may enter the uterus and oviduct, this pore is also referred to as a vulva and may be covered by a vulval flap. The uterus may take many forms form being short and straight, long with a single bend or a coiled form. Eggs produced in the ovaries populate the oviducts and uterus and may be released as embryonated or non embroynated eggs once fertilisation has occured. A small muscular organ exists at the vulval opening of some species known as the '''ovijector''', this organ aids in the expulsion of eggs from the vulva. Unlike in male nematodes the end of the female is usually blunt ended with the anus being positioned proximally on the body wall.
 
Female nematodes usually have a single genital pore through which sperm may enter the uterus and oviduct, this pore is also referred to as a vulva and may be covered by a vulval flap. The uterus may take many forms form being short and straight, long with a single bend or a coiled form. Eggs produced in the ovaries populate the oviducts and uterus and may be released as embryonated or non embroynated eggs once fertilisation has occured. A small muscular organ exists at the vulval opening of some species known as the '''ovijector''', this organ aids in the expulsion of eggs from the vulva. Unlike in male nematodes the end of the female is usually blunt ended with the anus being positioned proximally on the body wall.
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==Literature Search==
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==References==
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*Nottingham Vet School 2nd Year notes
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*http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/courses/ent156/securedocs/lectures/ENT156T3.pdf
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