Fig. 18

Atypical body shape in nematodes is not strictly associated with the number or ploidy level of epidermal nuclei. a There is no significant association between estimated body volume and the product of number of epidermal nuclei and ploidy level across Tylenchomorpha species (R² = 0.22; P = 0.41). b The body volume and the product of epidermal nuclear number and ploidy from Tylenchomorpha nematodes were plotted onto the regression line from Flemming et al. [8] with 95% prediction intervals (dotted curves). We found that H. glycines and R. reniformis lay outside of the 95% prediction interval