NEMATOLOGY # 1 2015 • Description of Sheraphelenchus parabrevigulonis n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) in pine wood packaging from Italy and redescription of S. sucus in onion bulbs from South Korea, isolated at Ningbo, China o Authors: Yiwu Fang ; Jianfeng Gu ; Xuan Wang ; Jianglin Wang and Hongmei Li • Effect of initial population densities of Ditylenchus destructor and D. dipsaci on potato tuber damage and nematode reproduction o Authors: Peter Mwaura ; Björn Niere and Stefan Vidal • Description of Ektaphelenchoides caspiensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Ektaphelenchinae) from Iran o Authors: Farzad Aliramaji ; Ebrahim Pourjam ; Akbar Karegar ; Mohammad Reza Atighi and Majid Pedram • Evaluation of rhizobacterial colonisation and the ability to induce Globodera pallida hatch o Authors: Eoin P. Lettice and Peter W. Jones • Molecular characterisation of, and new data on, two populations of Xiphinema ingens Luc & Dalmasso, 1964 (Nematoda: Longidoridae) from Iran o Authors: Sohrab Mirzaei ; Ebrahim Pourjam and Majid Pedram • Combinatorial in vitro RNAi of two neuropeptide genes and a pharyngeal gland gene on Meloidogyne incognita o Authors: Prakash Banakar ; Amita Sharma ; Catherine J. Lilley ; Nagavara Prasad Gantasala ; Mukesh Kumar and Uma Rao • Soil nematode assemblages in an acid soil as affected by lime application o Authors: Jie Zhao ; Cancan Zhao ; Songze Wan ; Xiaoli Wang ; Lixia Zhou and Shenglei Fu • Characterisation of an Iberian population of Rhyssocolpus iuventutis Andrássy, 1971 (Dorylaimida: Nordiidae), with a revised taxonomy of the genus o Authors: Reyes Peña-Santiago ; Pablo Guerrero ; Gracia Liébanas ; María del Carmen García ; Teresa Palomeque and Pedro Lorite • Plant-parasitic nematode feeding tubes and plugs: new perspectives on function o Authors: Sebastian Eves-van den Akker ; Catherine J. Lilley ; John T. Jones and Peter E. Urwin • Population dynamics of Meloidogyne graminicola and Hirschmanniella oryzae in a double rice- cropping sequence in the lowlands of Myanmar o Authors: Pa Pa Win ; Pyone Pyone Kyi ; Zin Thu Zar Maung and Dirk De Waele • Effects of organic and conventional pesticides on plant biomass, nematode diversity and the structure of the soil food web o Authors: Marina Carrascosa ; Sara Sánchez-Moreno and José Luis Alonso-Prados • Morphological and molecular characterisation of Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus (Steiner, 1914) Golden, 1956 and related species (Tylenchida: Hoplolaimidae) with a phylogeny of the genus o Authors: Sergei A. Subbotin ; Nicola Vovlas ; Gregor W. Yeates ; Johannes Hallmann ; Sebastian Kiewnick ; Vladimir N. Chizhov ; Rosa H. Manzanilla-López ;Renato N. Inserra and Pablo Castillo • Schistonchus zealandicus n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) associated with Ficus macrophylla in New Zealand o Authors: Zengqi Zhao ; Dongmei Li ; Kerrie A. Davies and Weimin Ye • Rotylenchus dalikhaniensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Hoplolaimidae), a monosexual species recovered from the rhizosphere of Ruscus hyrcanus Woronow in Mazandaran province, northern Iran o Authors: Farzad Aliramaji ; Ebrahim Pourjam ; Sergio Álvarez-Ortega ; Majid Pedram and Mohammad Reza Atighi • Status of soil nematode communities during natural regeneration of a subtropical forest in southwestern China o Authors: Yujuan Li ; Guoping Yang ; Deborah A. Neher ; Cheng-Yuan Xu and Jihua Wu • Protease inhibition by Heterodera glycines cyst content: evidence for effects on the Meloidogyne incognita proteasome o Author: Edward P. Masler • Characterisation of cereal cyst nematodes in Egypt based on morphometrics, RFLP and rDNA- ITS sequence analyses o Authors: Mohamed Baklawa ; Björn Niere ; Holger Heuer and Samia Massoud • Attractant and repellent effects of sweet potato root exudates on the potato rot nematode, Ditylenchus destructor o Authors: Zhen Xu ; Yong-Qiang Zhao ; Dong-Jing Yang ; Hou-Jun Sun ; Cheng-Ling Zhang and Yi-Ping Xie .