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1988
Fossil gastropods seem to be ideally suited for studies of heterochrony. The description and analysis of heterochrony in evolutionary sequences require a detailed understanding of the ontogeny of the organisms involved. Not only must the ontogeny be well-preserved in its entirety, but the basic parameters underlying growth must be amenable to ...
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Fossil gastropods seem to be ideally suited for studies of heterochrony. The description and analysis of heterochrony in evolutionary sequences require a detailed understanding of the ontogeny of the organisms involved. Not only must the ontogeny be well-preserved in its entirety, but the basic parameters underlying growth must be amenable to ...
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Escape responses of three herbivorous gastropods to the predatory gastropod Conus textile
Animal Behaviour, 1966Summary The herbivorous gastropods Strombus canarium, Lambis lambis, and Trochus pyramis evince escape responses, probably mediated by distance chemoreception, in the presence of the predatory gastropod Conus textile. In Strombus and Lambis, the response has two components: increase in the absolute rate of locomotion, and direction of locomotion ...
A J, Kohn, V, Waters
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Biological Reviews, 1983
Summary(I). Gastropods use chemoreception for a wide variety of behaviours including feeding, homing, escape from predators and a variety of social and reproductive behaviours. Chemoreception is used to locate distant food sources, and to discriminate between potential foods.
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Summary(I). Gastropods use chemoreception for a wide variety of behaviours including feeding, homing, escape from predators and a variety of social and reproductive behaviours. Chemoreception is used to locate distant food sources, and to discriminate between potential foods.
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Osmotic balance in gastropod molluscs—I some marine and littoral gastropods
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 1965Abstract 1. 1. Blood and urine concentrations of Turritella communis, Littorina saxatilis and other common littoral Gastropods were measured in normal, dilute and concentrated sea-waters and on exposure and reimmersion. The body fluids of active animals were isosmotic with the medium under all tolerated conditions and there was no evidence of ...
A C, Avens, M A, Sleigh
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The Adaptive Significance of Gastropod Torsion
Evolution, 1966Unique among mollusks, the Gastropoda are characterized by a curious asymmetry, resulting from a rotation of the visceral hump and shell. Thus in the earlier stages of their embryonic development, gastropods have the same arrangement of parts as other mollusks, with the rudiments of the mantle cavity, gills, coelomic ducts, and associated structures at
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Quaternary Structure of Gastropod Haemocyanin
Nature, 1972Three-dimensional image reconstruction shows haemocyanin to be made of three distinct parts. At the ends of the particle are a five-fold “collar” and a central “cap”. The cylindrical wall consists of sixty dimers which may be correlated with 120 oxygen binding sites.
J E, Mellema, A, Klug
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What Are the Origins of Ecdysteroids in Gastropods?
General and Comparative Endocrinology, 1995Terrestrial gastropods contain ecdysteroids, the origins of which are unknown. Whether they are synthesized by the animals or they arise from the diet is an open question. To address this problem, labeled cholesterol and various molecules which are efficiently converted into ecdysone by arthropods were tested as possible ecdysone precursors in ...
M, Garcia, B, Griffond, R, Lafont
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Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology, 1985
Paleoecology concerns the life processes and patterns of environmental relationships of groups of ancient organisms during their lifetimes. Two assumptions are fundamental to paleoecological theory: observed patterns in populations, associations, communities and ecosystems represented in the fossil record were imposed by contemporaneous physical and ...
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Paleoecology concerns the life processes and patterns of environmental relationships of groups of ancient organisms during their lifetimes. Two assumptions are fundamental to paleoecological theory: observed patterns in populations, associations, communities and ecosystems represented in the fossil record were imposed by contemporaneous physical and ...
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The Chemistry of Marine Pulmonate Gastropods
2006Secondary metabolites from pulmonate molluscs of the genera Siphonaria, Onchidium, and Trimusculus are described. Siphonaria and Onchidium biosynthesize mostly propionate-based metabolites whereas Trimusculus yields diterpene derivatives with a single type of labdane skeleton.
J, Darias, M, Cueto, A R, Díaz-Marrero
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Olfactory navigation in aquatic gastropods
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019ABSTRACTGastropod diversity is substantial in marine and freshwater habitats, and many aquatic slugs and snails use olfactory cues to guide their navigation behaviour. Examples include finding prey or avoiding predators based on kairomones, or finding potential mates using pheromones.
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