Systematic position and phylogeny / Paul De Ley and Mark Blaxter -- General organization / Lynda M. Gibbons -- Life cycles / Donald L. Lee -- Male and female gametes and fertilization / Jean-Lou Justine -- Embryology, developmental biology and the genome / Ian A. Hope -- Hatching / Roland N. Perry -- Cuticle, moulting and exsheathment / Donald L. Lee -- Feeding and digestion / Edward A. Munn and Patricia D. Munn -- Feeding behaviour of plant-parasitic nematodes / Urs Wyss -- Metabolism / Carolyn A. Behm -- Excretion/secretion, ionic and osmotic regulation / David P. Thompson and Timothy G. Geary -- Neuromuscular organization and control in nematodes / Richard J. Martin [and others] -- Locomotion / Robert McNeill Alexander -- Nematode sense organs / John Jones -- Behaviour / Donald L. Lee -- Nematode survival strategies / David A. Wharton -- Ageing / David Gems -- Immunology of nematode infection / Haruhiko Maruyama and Yukifumi Nawa -- Biological control / Brian R. Kerry and William M. Hominick -- Behaviour of entomopathogenic nematodes / Nobuyoshi Ishibashi -- Chemical control of animal-parasitic nematodes / George A. Conder -- Anthelmintic resistance / Nick C. Sangster and Robert J. Dobson -- Molecular approaches to novel crop resistance against nematodes / Howard J. Atkinson -- Epidemiology and control of nematode infection and disease in humans / Donald A.P. Bundy, Helen L. Guyatt and Edwin Michael