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Sense and Insensibility – An Appraisal of the Effects of Clinical Anesthetics on Gastropod and Cephalopod Molluscs as a Step to Improved Welfare of Cephalopods

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Recent progress in animal welfare legislation stresses the need to treat cephalopod molluscs, such as Octopus vulgaris, humanely, to have regard for their wellbeing and to reduce their pain and suffering resulting from experimental procedures.
William Winlow, William Winlow, William Winlow, Gianluca Polese, Hadi-Fathi Moghadam, Ibrahim A. Ahmed, Anna Di Cosmo   +6 more
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Nociceptive Biology of Molluscs and Arthropods: Evolutionary Clues About Functions and Mechanisms Potentially Related to Pain

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Important insights into the selection pressures and core molecular modules contributing to the evolution of pain-related processes have come from studies of nociceptive systems in several molluscan and arthropod species.
Edgar T. Walters
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Students' knowledge on the African giant mollusk Achatina fulica in a public school in the Recife metropolitan region [PDF]

Biotemas, 2007
The African giant mollusk Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 was introduced into Brazil in 1988 as a substitute for the European escargot Helix sp. This action did not induce the expected results and the gastropod has become an invasive species according to ...
Marcos Souto Alves, Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves, Renata Manzi de Souza   +2 more
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Helix aspersa aspersa flour: An evaluation for dietary supplementation

Heliyon
This study assesses the nutritional composition and safety of lab-produced snail flour derived from Helix aspersa aspersa, an herbivorous pulmonated gastropod mollusc that occupies various trophic levels in food chains.
David Bongiorno, Cristina Giosuè, Serena Indelicato, Giuseppe Avellone, Giuseppe Maniaci, Marianna Del Core, Fabio D'Agostino   +6 more
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Chemotactic Responses of Oscheius myriophilus to Mollusk Mucus

Agronomy
Terrestrial slugs and snails can significantly harm agriculture. Due to environmental concerns associated with chemical molluscicides, biological control methods are increasingly being explored.
Žiga Laznik, Stanislav Trdan, Klara Šavli   +2 more
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Filling Analytical Gaps in Allergen Detection─Real-Time PCR for the Detection of Commercially Relevant Cephalopods and Gastropods in Food. [PDF]

J Agric Food Chem, 2023
Blaschke V, Berten A, Sprenger H, Zagon J, Winkel M.   +4 more
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Biological activities of gastropods secretions: snail and slug slime. [PDF]

Nat Prod Bioprospect, 2023
Rashad M, Sampò S, Cataldi A, Zara S.
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Gut microbiota in parasite-transmitting gastropods. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty, 2023
Li P, Hong J, Yuan Z, Huang Y, Wu M, Ding T, Wu Z, Sun X, Lin D.   +8 more
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Genome-Wide Characterization of Four Gastropod Species Ionotropic Receptors Reveals Diet-Linked Evolutionary Patterns of Functional Divergence. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Wang G, Sun YQ, Wang F, Wang ZY, Sun NY, Wei MJ, Shen YT, Li YJ, Sun QQ, Fujaya Y, Bian XG, Yang WQ, Tan K.   +12 more
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Occurrence of microplastics in freshwater gastropods from a tropical river U-Taphao, southern Thailand. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Jitkaew P, Pradit S, Noppradit P, Sengloyluan K, Yucharoen M, Suwanno S, Tanrattanakul V, Sornplang K, Nitiratsuwan T.   +8 more
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