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Six-week-old tissue culture banana plants were submitted to four treatments: with P. corethrurus, R. similis, P. corethrurus+R. similis, and a control with no earthworms or nematodes. At the end of the experiment, the P. corethrurus treatments showed significantly higher leaf surface areas, shoot dry root weights, and root fresh weights than those without earthworms. This root growth enhancement probably contributed to the evident but non-significant decrease in the density of nematodes in the roots, even though earthworms did not reduce the total number of nematodes per whole root system. Moreover, the presence of earthworms slightly alleviated the severity of root damage. N bioavailability in the soil, along with N, Ca, and Mg content of banana plants, were also significantly increased in the presence of earthworms. Our results demonstrated that banana plant growth and nutrition were positively influenced by earthworms. Cropping practices that boost the development of earthworm communities in soil should therefore be promoted to enhance sustainability and to naturally alleviate nematode impact.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "PRATYLENCHIDAE", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "endogeic species", "nutrient uptake", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29111", "pratylenchidae", "F62 - Physiologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale - Croissance et d\u00e9veloppement", "lutte antin\u00e9matode", "Musa acuminata", "630", "[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "absorption de substances nutritives", "Oligochaeta", "GLOSSOSCOLECIDAE", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4993", "580", "2. 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Biogeographic responses to geological phenomena including plate tectonics, as well as to past and present climate and habitat distributions, are the main factors determining the present distribution of earthworm families. A total of ca. 5,738 species/subspecies (5,406 species and 332 unique subspecies; i.e., not counting the nomino-typical subspecies) belonging to 23 families (including one non-crassiclitellate family: Moniligastridae) are currently recognized worldwide, of which three families (Tritogeniidae and Kazimierzidae from Southern Africa and Arecoidae, a new family from Brazil described herein), 35 genera and close to 1200 new taxa (including subspecies) were described in the 21st century. Nonetheless, the large number of still undescribed species will likely increase this value to well over 8,000 species. Ten families are monospecific and/or monogeneric and have a mostly restricted distribution. On the other hand, more than 87 widespread cosmopolitan species have been catalogued, some of them with important invasive potential, belonging mainly to families Lumbricidae, Acanthodrilidae, Benhamiidae, Megascolecidae, Rhinodrilidae and Ocnerodrilidae. Taxonomic housekeeping was performed for the preoccupied Rhinodrilidae genus Tairona Righi \u2013 herein substituted by Taironina nom. nov., and Guarani camaqua Rodr\u00edguez &amp; Lima was reinstated and removed from synonymy with Criodrilus lacuum Hoffmeister, 1845, resulting in a wider definition of the Almidae family. Furthermore, Amynthas maximalis nom. nov. is proposed herein as a substitution name for the preoccupied name Amynthas maximus Qiu &amp; Dong, 2019, and Arecoidae is proposed herein as a new monotypic family for the aquamegadrile species Areco reco Righi, Ayres &amp; Bittencourt, 1978.   \u00a0</p></article>", "keywords": ["Komarekionidae", "Tritogeniidae", "[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Kynotidae", "[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", "Annelida", "590", "Lutodrilidae", "Opisthopora", "Ocnerodrilidae", "Haplotaxida", "Eudrilidae", "Criodrilidae", "Sparganophilidae", "Glossoscolecidae", "[SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", " Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Crassiclitellata", "Animalia", "Earthworms", "Animals", "Arecoidae", "Almidae", "Oligochaeta", "Diporodrilidae", "Ecosystem", "Taxonomy", "Tumakidae", "Biwadrilidae", "Invasive species", "Acanthodrilidae", "Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Biodiversity", "Benhamiidae", "Microchaetidae", "Rhinodrilidae", "Kazimierzidae", "Biogeography", "Hormogastridae", "Megascolecidae", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Weevils", "Clitellata", "Moniligastridae", "Lumbricidae", "Megadriles"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Zootaxa", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33", "name": "item", "description": "10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3897/zookeys.688.13721", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-09-21T16:19:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-08", "title": "The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the pantropical earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus (Rhinodrilidae, Clitellata): Mitogenome characterization and phylogenetic positioning", "description": "<p>Pontoscolex corethrurus (M\uffc3\uffbcller, 1857) plays an important role in soil terrestrial ecosystems and has been widely used as an animal model for a large variety of ecological studies, in particular due to its common presence and generally high abundance in human-disturbed tropical soils. In this study we describe the complete mitochondrial genome of the peregrine earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus. This is the first record of a mitochondrial genome within the Rhinodrilidae family. Its mitochondrial genome is 14 835 bp in length containing 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes (PCG), 2 rRNA genes and 22 tRNA genes). It has the same gene content and structure as in other sequenced earthworms, but unusual among invertebrates it has several overlapping open reading frames. All genes are encoded on the same strand, most of the PCGs use ATG as the start codon except for NAD3, which uses GTG as the start codon. The T+A content of the mitochondrial genome is 59.9% (31.9% A, 27.9% T, 14.9% G, and 25.3% for C). 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