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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000 The effect of exposing the lymnaeid snail Fossaria cubensis to the trematode Fasciola hepatica on the snail population's life-history traits was studied under laboratory conditions.
Alfredo Gutiérrez +4 more
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THE STORY OF THE SNAIL AND THE GECKO EGG.
Biodiversity Observations, 2018 None
Werner Conradie, David M Herbert
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Growth and Reproduction of Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Laboratory Conditions
Croatian Journal of Fisheries, 2021 This study presents the results of observation on growth and reproduction of Planorbarius corneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) over the course of several years of continuous rearing in the laboratory in order to use them as test organisms for
Mažuran Neda, Kovačević Goran
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Why pygmy snails lay giant eggs: the kiwi syndrome
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2020 Some minute land snails lay disproportionally large eggs, and the reason is unknown. A possibility is the “Kiwi Syndrome”, in which natural selection pressures associated with low egg predation, heavy predation of the young, and a minimal viable size for hatchlings, force small females to invest in relatively large offspring at the cost of reduced ...
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Photoperiodic Stimulation of Egg Laying in the Land Snail Helix aspersa [PDF]
Nature, 1966 WE report here early results of an investigation of the relation between photoperiod and various aspects of the physiology and reproduction of the land snail, Helix aspersa. It was suggested recently that maturation of gametes may be initiated by annual temperature fluctuations and is perhaps correlated with changes in illumination. There does not seem
GWEN J. STEPHENS, GROVER C. STEPHENS
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Tropical Animal Science Journal, 2020 The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of feeding cassava leaf meal and golden snail on performances, chemical, and physical qualities of local duck egg.
Sumiati Sumiati, A. Darmawan, W. Hermana
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Background: Schistosomiasis is endemic throughout all regions of Côte d’Ivoire, however, species of the intermediate snail host vary across bioclimatic zones.
Nana R. Diakité +7 more
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Snail Farming in Mature Rubber Plantation : 4. Studies on some Artificial Methods for Hatching of Snail Eggs and Protection of Young Snails during the Dry Season [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2001 Three species of edible land snails of the moist forest belt of Nigeria, Archachatina marginata (Swainson), Archachatina papyracae (Pfeiffer) and two phenotypes of Limicolaria species, sometimes named Limicolaria flammae (Muller) and Limicolaria aurora ...
Awah, AA. +3 more
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018 Background Snail-borne parasitic diseases, such as angiostrongyliasis, clonorchiasis, fascioliasis, fasciolopsiasis, opisthorchiasis, paragonimiasis and schistosomiasis, pose risks to human health and cause major socioeconomic problems in many tropical ...
Xiao-Ting Lu +6 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1995 The number of eggs laid per snail in Bradybaena similaris and the nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in the albumen gland and ovotestis were quantified in snails infected with sporocysts of the digenetic trematode Eurytrema coelomaticum.
Jairo Pinheiro, Suzana B. Amato
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