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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Background: Identification of freshwater snails and possible trematodes transmission sites are essential to continue monitoring the potential for disease outbreaks in areas with a history of parasitic infections.
Mojgan Aryaiepour +9 more
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Effects of Ingestion of Lithic Particles on Growth of the Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata (Caenogastropoda, Ampullariidae) [PDF]
, 2016 Lithic particles are a common feature in the digestive tract of freshwater snails. Their role in the digestive processes has been demonstrated in some microphytophagous and detritivorous species, as they enhance growth, assimilation and reproduction.
Manara, Enzo +2 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 In animals, growth and development are strongly correlated with the gut microbiota and metabolic profiles. In this study, gut microbiome communities, metabolic profiles, and growth performance of Eriocheir sinensis under three dietary feed types based on
Xiaowen Chen +20 more
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Impact of Salinity on the Gastrointestinal Bacterial Community of Theodoxus fluviatilis
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Differences in salinity are boundaries that act as barriers for the dispersal of most aquatic organisms. This creates distinctive biota in freshwater and brackish water (mesohaline) environments.
Carmen Kivistik +7 more
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Efficacy of euphorbia hirta latex as plant derived molluscicides against freshwater snails
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2011 The toxic effect of binary and tertiary combinations of Euphorbia hirta Linn latex powder with other plant molluscicidal compounds, were evaluated against the freshwater snails Lymnaea (Radix) acuminata and Indoplanorbis exustus in pond.
Ram P. Yadav, Ajay Singh
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Cercariae (Digenea: Strigeidae, Diplostomidae) in Biomphalaria straminea (Planorbidae) from a rice field in Northeastern Argentina [PDF]
, 2017 The rice fields can provide habitats for many species of aquatic invertebrates, as insects, molluscs, crustaceans; and vertebrates, as fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, which may act as hosts in the life cycles of digenean parasites. In this context,
Fernández, María Virginia +1 more
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Schistosomes and snails: A molecular encounter [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright © 2014 Knight, Arican-Goktas, Ittiprasert, Odoemelam, Miller and Bridger. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Arican-Goktas, HD +5 more
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020 Background. Schistosomiasis is caused by Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium in Africa. These schistosome parasites use freshwater snail intermediate hosts to complete their lifecycle.
Tamirat Hailegebriel +2 more
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Taxonomy, Conservation, and the Future of Native Aquatic Snails in the Hawaiian Islands
Diversity, 2021 Freshwater systems are among the most threatened habitats in the world and the biodiversity inhabiting them is disappearing quickly. The Hawaiian Archipelago has a small but highly endemic and threatened group of freshwater snails, with eight species in ...
Carl C. Christensen +2 more
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Snails promote methane release from a freshwater lake ecosystem
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2014 Benthic fauna, as ecosystem engineers, can strongly affect microbial-driven ecosystem biogeochemical cycling. However, the effects of benthic fauna, especially epifauna, on CH4 cycling remain still elusive.
Xiao eXu +8 more
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