SciShow: Meet the Most Important Animal You’ve Never Seen

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Content of the Lesson: They predate the dinosaurs and they outnumber us by trillions, yet you might not ever have the pleasure of seeing one. So let us introduce to you, the nematode. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.britannica.com/search?query=flatworms https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/world-population-stop-growing/595165/ https://lifesciences.byu.edu/there-are-57-billion-tiny-wormlike-nematodes-for-every-human-on-earth http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/nematode/soil_nematode.htm https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nematodes-climate.html http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/bigga/gki/article/2012mar30.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/20/man-v-rat-war-could-the-long-war-soon-be-over https://books.google.com/books?id=d4GQlYzode8C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22intestinal+roundworm%22+%2227000+eggs%22&source=bl&ots=l7CnU6OFyX&sig=ACfU3U1Ad3kt7-q-1lHM6_W0nHu-KPb20w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOwcz4kofmAhUPHzQIHf_dBJkQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22intestinal%20roundworm%22%20%2227000%20eggs%22&f=false https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/ecdysozoa/nematoda.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789810/ https://www.nature.com/articles/srep17676 https://nematode.unl.edu/wormgen.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26861/ http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_quicktourdiversity/quicktourdiversity.html https://sese.asu.edu/about/news/article/1498 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES14-00319.1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-8709.2007.00127.x https://www.austincc.edu/ddingley/MLAB1331/LectureGuide/Nematode.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413787/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/parasitic-roundworms-own-this-place/ https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/224011-overview https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2011/apr/research-outlines-mysterious-evolution-nematodes-–-one-earth’s-first-animals https://phys.org/news/2011-04-outlines-mysterious-evolution-nematodes-.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131215144805/http://www.mactode.com/page21/files/Placentonema_gigantissima.pdf http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=24.25.333.369 https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-animals/animals/zoology-invertebrates/nematoda https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17708982 http://www.wormbook.org/chapters/www_quicktourdiversity/quicktourdiversity.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855192/ https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-worm-in-research https://sustainability.asu.edu/news/archive/when-roundworms-lose-carbon-emissions-rise/ https://cbs.umn.edu/cgc/what-c-elegans http://www.people.ku.edu/~erikl/Lundquist_Lab/Why_study_C._elegans.html https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/c-elegans-model-organism-in-the-discovery-464/ https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/20/lab-worm-c-elegans/ https://www.genome.gov/25520394/online-education-kit-1998-genome-of-roundworm-c-elegans-sequenced https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-worm-in-research https://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast/article/10.1038/nmiddleeast.2019.111 https://phys.org/news/2019-06-climate-affect-impact-roundworms-grasslands.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1418-6 https://www.medicinenet.com/rat_lungworm_angiostrongylus_cantonensis/article.htm https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/home/decision-support-in-medicine/infectious-diseases/intestinal-nematodes-roundworm/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=relevance&search=Strongyloides&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Duodenum_Strongyloides_40x2.JPG https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/thelaziasis/index.html https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/toolkit/soil-carbon-emissions https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5886223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC358231/ https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/index.html


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