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Release of lungworm larvae from snails in the environment: potential for alternative transmission pathways. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BACKGROUND:Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts.
Alessio Giannelli, Vito Colella, Francesca Abramo, Rafael Antonio do Nascimento Ramos, Luigi Falsone, Emanuele Brianti, Antonio Varcasia, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Martin Knaus, Mark T Fox, Domenico Otranto   +10 more
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Antitumor activity of edible fishes (Channa striata and Anabas testudineus) and gastropods (Helix aspersa and Pila virens) rudimentary mucus against HT-29 cell line and its biochemical properties

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology
Background The mucus from fish and gastropods contains a wide range of bioactive molecules with biomedical properties. The fish and gastropods were collected from Oragadam lake, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. In this study, we wanted to examine
Elumalai Devan, Hemavathi Maduraiveeran, Kavitha Raja, Arulvasu Chinnasamy, Govindan Sivalingam, Sathya Balaji, Vinoth Neelakandan, Sharon Agnita, Murugan Rajaram   +8 more
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Gastropod seed dispersal: an invasive slug destroys far more seeds in its gut than native gastropods. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Seed dispersal is one of the most important mechanisms shaping biodiversity, and animals are one of the key dispersal vectors. Animal seed dispersal can directly or indirectly be altered by invasive organisms through the establishment of new or the ...
Tamara Blattmann, Steffen Boch, Manfred Türke, Eva Knop   +3 more
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Functional changes in the snail statocyst system elicited by microgravity. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BackgroundThe mollusk statocyst is a mechanosensing organ detecting the animal's orientation with respect to gravity. This system has clear similarities to its vertebrate counterparts: a weight-lending mass, an epithelial layer containing small ...
Pavel M Balaban, Aleksey Y Malyshev, Victor N Ierusalimsky, Nikolay Aseyev, Tania A Korshunova, Natasha I Bravarenko, M S Lemak, Matvey Roshchin, Igor S Zakharov, Yekaterina Popova, Richard Boyle   +10 more
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A Biomphalaria glabrata peptide that stimulates significant behaviour modifications in aquatic free-living Schistosoma mansoni miracidia. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
The human disease schistosomiasis (or bilharzia) is caused by the helminth blood fluke parasite Schistosoma mansoni, which requires an intermediate host, the freshwater gastropod snail Biomphalaria glabrata (the most common intermediate host).
Tianfang Wang, Russell C Wyeth, Di Liang, Utpal Bose, Guoying Ni, Donald P McManus, Scott F Cummins   +6 more
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Shells of the Roman snail are important microhabitats for soil invertebrates

Soil Organisms, 2021
Shells of molluscs from snail farms (heliciculture) are used as food additives or construction material and ecological engineering approaches utilize their potential to assist with ecosystem restoration.
Claudia Tluste, Klaus Birkhofer
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In silico prediction of neuropeptides from the neural ganglia of Pacific abalone Haliotis discus hannai (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

The European Zoological Journal, 2020
Neuropeptides play a central role in the regulation of reproduction, growth, development, and various other physiological processes. In our study, 26 neuropeptide precursors were identified from the pleuropedal and cerebral ganglia of Pacific abalone ...
M. R. Sharker, Z. P. Sukhan, S. C. Kim, S.-J. Rha, K. H. Kho   +4 more
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Intermediate gastropod hosts of major feline cardiopulmonary nematodes in an area of wildcat and domestic cat sympatry in Greece

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background The metastrongyloid nematodes Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, Troglostrongylus brevior and Angiostrongylus chabaudi are cardiopulmonary parasites affecting domestic cats (Felis catus) and wildcats (Felis silvestris).
Dimitris Dimzas, Simone Morelli, Donato Traversa, Angela Di Cesare, Yoo Ree Van Bourgonie, Karin Breugelmans, Thierry Backeljau, Antonio Frangipane di Regalbono, Anastasia Diakou   +8 more
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The Giant Marine Gastropod Campanile Giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) as a High‐Resolution Archive of Seasonality in the Eocene Greenhouse World

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020
Giant gastropods are among the largest mollusks in the fossil record, but their potential as paleoseasonality archives has received little attention.
Niels J. deWinter, Johan Vellekoop, Alexander J. Clark, Peter Stassen, Robert P. Speijer, Philippe Claeys   +5 more
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Influence of the technology of processing of meat of snails in anabiosis on the content of toxic elements

Ukrainian Journal of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, 2019
An important problem today is the pollution of the territory of Ukraine with heavy metals: lead, cadmium, copper, zinc and others. Relevance of the topic is that nowadays the issues of safety and quality control are not fully resolved in the country, as ...
I. V. Zabarna, I. V. Jacenko
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