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Necessity knows no law in a snail
The European Zoological Journal, 2017 In the present review, we outline the relationship between starvation and taste-aversive learning (conditioned taste aversion: CTA) in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis and introduce the “necessity knows no law” concept. When snails were food-deprived for
E. Ito, Y. Totani, A. Oike
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Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc?
Nature, 2001 Palaeozoic invertebrate fossils may pose severe problems in assigning them to Recent taxa. Sutton et al.1 describe the beautifully preserved and illustrated Silurian fossil Acaenoplax hayae as a “plated aplacophoran” mollusc, interpreting its polychaete-like characters as convergent features.
Steiner, G, Salvini-Plawen, L
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Occurrence of the invasive species Corbicula fluminea (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) in the Sapucaí River (São Paulo, Brazil) [PDF]
Biotemas, 2010 Biological invasions are gaining increasing importance due to the ecological damage and economic impacts caused by the invaders. Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) is an invasive exotic bivalve introduced into Brazil in the 1970’s, and it has colonized ...
Marina Peixoto Vianna +1 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 Se analizó la estructura de la comunidad de moluscos y sus relaciones tróficas en seis localidades del litoral rocoso con diferentes grados de exposición al oleaje (área expuesta y área protegida), en el Estado Sucre, Venezuela.
Johanna Fernández, Mayré Jiménez P
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Genetic considerations for mollusc production in aquaculture: current state of knowledge.
Frontiers in Genetics, 2014 IIn 2012, world mollusk production in aquaculture reached a volume of 15,171,000 tons, representing 23% of total aquaculture production and positioning mollusks as the second most important category of aquaculture products (fishes are the first).
Marcela eAstorga
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Morphological characterization of the hemocytes of the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria tenagophila
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1993 The blood cells of the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria tenagophila, an important transmiter of the trematode Schistosoma mansoni in Brazil, were examined by ligth and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
Margherita Anna Barracco +2 more
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Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2015 The mitochondrion represents a compelling biological model of complex organelle development driven by evolutionary modification of permanently enslaved primordial purple non-sulphur bacteria.
G B Stefano +3 more
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Records of the Australian MuseumAs the town of Sydney grew in the 1800’s the search for building material and the later construction of railways in the colony revealed an extensive trove of Triassic fossils.
Graham McLean
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Royal Society Open ScienceConspecifics often share—or are assumed to share—nuclear genome characteristics like nucleotide composition and genome size. These fundamental aspects of the nuclear genome can themselves be the object of natural selection. We here provide the first high-
Maurine Neiman +3 more
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Norepinephrine and octopamine: linking stress and immune function across phyla [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2008 In species from three widely divergent phyla (Arthropoda, Mollusca and Chordata) tyrosine derivatives (norepinephrine or octopamine) mediate a response to acute stress.
SA Adamo
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