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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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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Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 2023 Objective: Lymnaea stagnalis known as the great pond snail, is one of the intermediate hosts of Fasciola hepatica, a zoonotic parasite. In this study, it was aimed to determine the larval forms of F.
Ahmet Hakan Ünlü +3 more
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Effects of water temperature on summer periphyton biomass in shallow lakes: a pan-European mesocosm experiment [PDF]
, 2015 Periphyton communities play an important role in shallow lakes and are controlled by direct forces such as temperature, light, nutrients, and invertebrate grazing, but also indirectly by planktivorous fish predation.
Adrian, Rita +9 more
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Limnological Review, 2021 The carnivorous snail Clea (Anentome) helena (von dem Busch, 1847) (Gastropoda: Nassariidae), commonly called as the “assassin snail” is sold worldwide including India for aesthetics and the ability to kill pest snails in aquaria.
Paul Pranesh +5 more
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Bithyniid Abundance in the South of Western Siberia Water-Courses and Water Reservoirs (Russia)
Diversity, 2022 Gastropoda are an important component of the freshwater benthic communities of Western Siberia and participate in a number of trophic relationships and as the intermediate hosts of trematodes.
Elena A. Serbina
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LARVAL STAGES OF TREMATODES IN FRESHWATER SNAILS OF THE CHORNOBYL ZONE OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
Ukrainian Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2021 In 1986, at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Exclusion Zone after an industrial accident, ecosystems began to have several features that distinguish them from the objects of the natural reserve fund. Parasitic systems are an informative indicator
V. I. STOROZHUK +4 more
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Isolation and characterization of the full-length cDNA encoding a member of a novel cytochrome p450 family (CYP320A1) from the tropical freshwater snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, intermediate host for Schistosoma mansoni [PDF]
, 2005 Cytochrome p450s (cyp450s) are a family of structurally related proteins, with diverse functions, including steroid synthesis and breakdown of toxins. This paper reports the full-length sequence of a novel cyp450 gene, the first to be isolated from the ...
Altschul SF +17 more
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The freshwater prosobranch snails fagotia in Turkey
, 2020 The three recent species of the Prosobranch freshwater snails Fagotia (Melanopsinae) live in Turkey. Two of them are of pontian origin. But only one seems to be endemic in the Central Anatolian tableland. The way of immigration is explained by means of the geological development in the Pleistocene and a connection to the other pontian species is ...
ŞEŞEN, Rıdvan, SCHÜTT, Hartwig
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