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On the path to extinction: Helix godetiana Kobelt, 1878, the only threatened Helix species in Greece [PDF]
Nature ConservationLand snails and the Aegean Archipelago offer an intriguing combination for studying biodiversity, biogeography and ecology. A region with high environmental and temporal heterogeneity and a tri-continental biotic influence and a group of organisms with ...
Leonidas Maroulis +6 more
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Population genetic structure of Helixpomatia L. (Mollusca, Pulmonata) from the southeastern and eastern parts of the range [PDF]
, 2017 On the basis of the analysis of genetic variation detectable by ISSR-PCR, the state of the gene pools of 14 populations of Roman snail Helix pomatia L. in the conditions of urbanized landscapes of the southeastern and eastern parts of the current range ...
Artemchuk, O. Y., Snegin, E. A.
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Habitat selection in terrestrial snails and its applications to heliciculture [PDF]
, 2006 Snails are employed as experimental animals in different scientific fields and their growth is a good biological indicator. Growth is mainly determined at a genetic level, although many factors biotic and abiotic may alter growth rates.
Acero de la Cruz, Raquel +7 more
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, 2017 A review of research on land mollusc middens with a circum- Mediterranean emphasis and drawing particularly on the detailed analysis of a very large Late Pleistocene Iberomaurusian midden at Taforalt, Morocco dated between 20 thousand and 12600 cal BP.
Bell, Martin, Taylor, V. K.
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Impairment of context memory by β-amyloid peptide in terrestrial snail
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2008 We examined influence of the β-amyloid peptide (25-35) neurotoxic fragment (βAP) on Helix lucorum food-aversion learning. Testing with aversively conditioned carrot showed that 2, 5, and 14 days after training the βAP-injected group ...
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ZoodiversityKnown records of five species of land snails of Crimean origin (Brephulopsis cylindrica (Menke, 1828), B. bidens (Krynicki, 1833), Mentissa gracilicosta (Rossmässler, 1836), Monacha fruticola (Krynicki, 1833, Helix albescens Rossmässler, 1839) in Ukraine
N. V. Gural-Sverlova, R. I. Gural
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Avoidance of Canopy Gaps by a Common Land Snail [PDF]
, 2014 Because canopy gaps are characterized by elevated temperature and decreased humidity relative to closed-canopy forest, terrestrial gastropods may be exposed to greater desiccation stress in gaps than in undisturbed forest.
Bloch, Christopher P., Stock, Michael
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Health and sustainability: The nutritional value of snail meat
Croatian Journal of Food Science and TechnologyThe increasing popularity of snail meat prompts research of the nutritional benefits of consuming Helix aspersa maxima cultivated in Bulgaria. With a high protein content and remarkably low fat content, snail meat is well-suited for the inclusion in ...
Mihail Garkov, Kremena Nikovska
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Морфогенетический анализ популяций Helix pomatia L. (Pulmonata, Helicidae) Юго-Восточной и Восточной части современного ареала [PDF]
, 2014 На основе анализа морфологической и генетической изменчивости, выявляемой методом гель-элекктрофореза белков в ПААГ, изучено состояние генофондов двенадцати адвентивных популяций виноградной улитки Helix pomatia L.
Артемчук, О. Ю. +1 more
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A new species of Lysinoe (Gastropoda: Helicoidea) from the Oligocene of Mexico
Revista Mexicana de BiodiversidadIn her 1945 study on the Tertiary fossil mollusks of northeastern Mexico, Gardner listed only 2 taxa of land snails: Holospira eva Gardner, 1945 and “Helix” sp.
Rodrigo B. Salvador
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