Roundworms - HABITANTES DEL MICROMUNDO

Nematodes, also known as “roundworms” are among the most abundant animals on Earth. They live in almost all environments, both aquatic and terrestrial, and have developed a huge diversity of life strategies. A lot of them feed on vegetables, other on bacteria and animals, and even there exist some parasitic species, like the filaria and trichina The species Caenorhabditis elegans, is one of the model organisms for different specialities related with biology, among them neurobiology. Some species, one of them appearing in the video, have a surprising reproduction in which males literally nail their spermatophores in the female In the video you can see it marked with a white arrow, .