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Detection of Rat Lungworms in Invasive Mollusks, Georgia, USA, 2024 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is an invasive, zoonotic parasite that can cause severe disease in humans. We collected A. cantonensis larvae from 2 host species, invasive apple and mystery snails, from bodies of water in Georgia, USA ...
Tyler J. Achatz, Caley H. Chun, Maggie A. Young, Jim Page, Matthew Rowe, Caroline Cooper, Laura Wenk, Vasyl V. Tkach   +7 more
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Assessing the sentinel capacity of mollusks, seawater and sediments for monitoring antimicrobial resistance in the marine environment [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
IntroductionAlthough it is widely recognized that aquaculture activity is particularly relevant to the development and spread of AMR in the aquatic environment, national action plans against AMR typically do not include the marine environment among the ...
Gabriel Arriagada, Libertad Canales, Fabián Flores, Nicolás Reyes, Ismael Maldonado, Lisette Lapierre, Nicolás Galarce   +6 more
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Cholesterol and sterols in molluscan endocrinology: past, present, future [PDF]

Frontiers in Endocrinology
Recently, critical evaluations have challenged the presence of vertebrate-type sex steroid signaling in mollusks, underlying the need of new research lines to shed light on molluscan endocrinology.
István Fodor, Gabriel V. Markov, Luis Alfonso Yañez-Guerra, Károly Elekes, Edit Pollák, László Molnár, Zsolt Pirger   +6 more
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Methyl mercury concentrations in seafood collected from Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang, China, and their potential health risk for the fishing community [PDF]

, 2020
Seafood is an important exposure route for mercury, especially methyl mercury (MeHg). Therefore, we quantified MeHg concentrations in 69 species of seafood including fish, crustaceans and mollusks collected from Zhoushan Islands, China.
Khan, Anwarzeb, Khan, Sardar, Li, Gang, Nunes, Luís, Tang, Yuting, Yan, Jianbo, Ye, Xingqian, Yu, Xinwei   +7 more
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E Pluribus Octo – Building Consensus on Standards of Care and Experimentation in Cephalopod Research; a Historical Outlook

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
The Directive 2010/63/EU “on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes” originally induced some concern among cephalopod researchers, because of the inclusion of cephalopod mollusks as the only invertebrates among the protected species. Here
Fabio De Sio, Frederike D. Hanke, Kerstin Warnke, Chantal Marazia, Viola Galligioni, Viola Galligioni, Graziano Fiorito, Graziano Fiorito, Ioanna Stravidou, Ioanna Stravidou, Giovanna Ponte, Giovanna Ponte   +11 more
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The Irkutsk focus of opisthorchosis (to the 40th Anniversary of the discovery)

Российский паразитологический журнал, 2023
The purpose of the research is to summarize our own and literature data on the Irkutsk focus of opisthorchosis.Materials and methods. The materials (mollusks, cyprinids and muskrat) were collected in the reservoirs of the Biryusa River basin.
O. T. Rusinek, S. P. Veprikov
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Effects of Short-Term Salinity Stress on Ions, Free Amino Acids, Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase Activity, and Gill Histology in the Threatened Freshwater Shellfish Solenaia oleivora

Fishes, 2022
Salinity is an important ecological factor affecting the osmolality of aquatic animals. Solenaia oleivora is an endemic and economically important freshwater shellfish in China.
Ting Zhang, Jingting Yao, Dongpo Xu, Guohua Lv, Haibo Wen   +4 more
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Factors Controlling the Distribution of Intermediate Host Snails of Schistosoma in Crater Lakes in Uganda: A Machine Learning Approach

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Schistosomiasis affects over 700 million people globally. 90% of the infected live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the trematode species Schistosoma mansoni and S.
Zadoki Tabo, Zadoki Tabo, Thomas A. Neubauer, Thomas A. Neubauer, Immaculate Tumwebaze, Björn Stelbrink, Lutz Breuer, Lutz Breuer, Cyril Hammoud, Cyril Hammoud, Christian Albrecht   +10 more
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The Tricky Task of Fisher-Gardener Research in Conservation Paleobiology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The study of sambaquis (ancient shell mounds) in conservation paleobiology is a complicated subject, especially when comparing body sizes of current and past mollusk valves to observe possible changes. There is a lack of information regarding how ancient
Anna Clara Arboitte de Assumpção, Felipe Caron, Fernando Erthal, Fernando Erthal, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Raphael Mathias Pinotti, Matias do Nascimento Ritter, Matias do Nascimento Ritter   +8 more
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Hydromalacological researches in the Siverskyi Donets River Basin (south of the Eastern European Plain): A review

Біологічні студії, 2022
An analytical review of literature sources is presented, it contains information about the freshwater malacofauna of the basin of the Siverskyi Donets River, the right, largest tributary of the Don River, south of the East European Plain.
S. M. Pisaryev
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