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To identify a potentially destructive nematode intercepted at a U.S. port, microbiologist Zafar Handoo and plant pathologist Lynn Carta examine the head of a plant-parasitic nematode. They will compare it with specimens in the USDA Nematode Collection to make the ID.
Photo by Peggy Greb.
