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Understanding A Snail's Eye at a Snail's Pace [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1975 This paper is cast in the form of answers to pertinent (sometimes impertinent) questions which a reader might ask of persons devoting the better part of a scientific career to studying the eye of a snail. Two structures in the eye of Helix aspersa are emphasized: the microvilli and microvesicles of type I photosensory cells.
Richard M. Eakin, Jean L. Brandenburger
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Establishing strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) geographical variability is a key component of any study that seeks to utilize strontium isotopes as tracers of provenance or mobility.
Kate Britton +13 more
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Monitoring arthropods under the scope of LIFE-SNAILS project: I - Santa Maria Island baseline data with implementation of the Index of Biotic Integrity [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe database we introduce is a pivotal component of the LIFE SNAILS project (Support and Naturalisation in Areas of Importance for Land Snails). This initiative is dedicated to safeguarding three endangered species of terrestrial molluscs, specifically ...
Paulo Borges +7 more
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An Epidemiological Trend of Urogenital Schistosomiasis in Ethiopia
Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 Schistosomiasis is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Currently, the prevalence of the disease can possibly be heightened due to man-made ecological transformations particularly related to the recent development programs involving irrigation and ...
Bayissa Chala +2 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Freshwater vector snails' distribution, infection with cercariae, preferred habitat and possible trematodiases transmission foci is not well known in Western Kenya.
Maurice Omondi Owiny +3 more
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Effects of BPA in Snails [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006 It is an ethical requirement that new findings be presented in light of and in conjunction with a balanced evaluation of the current knowledge and published literature. We believe that Oehlmann et al. (2006) violated this general principle in several ways. For example, the authors inferred that prosobranch snails have a functional estrogen receptor and
Dietrich, Daniel R. +6 more
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O-Glycosylation of snails [PDF]
Glycoconjugate Journal, 2012 The glycosylation abilities of snails deserve attention, because snail species serve as intermediate hosts in the developmental cycles of some human and cattle parasites. In analogy to many other host-pathogen relations, the glycosylation of snail proteins may likewise contribute to these host-parasite interactions. Here we present an overview on the O-
Friedrich Altmann +5 more
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Epidemiological studies on helminthoses in goats and sheep caused by Protostrongylidae leiper, 1926 [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2005 Studies on sheep, goats and terrestrial snails rom a pasture in a north-eastern Bulgarian region have been carried cut. Protostrongylids of 4 genera - Muellerius, Cystocaulus, Protostrongylus and Neostrongylus have been established.
Panayotova-Pencheva Mariana S.
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Veterinární Medicína, 2013 The use of anticoagulants has increased in recent times as a method for controlling rodent populations. However, this increased use also provokes accidental and intentional ingestion for both animals and humans, triggering poisoning of non-target ...
D. Hernandez-Moreno +5 more
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First record of two slug mite species of the genus Riccardoella Berlese (Acari: Ereynetidae) in Serbia [PDF]
Pesticidi i Fitomedicina, 2016 The paper presents the first data on slug mites Riccardoella (Riccardoella) limacum (Schrank) and R. (Proriccardoella) oudemansiThor (Acari: Ereynetidae) in Serbia. The two parasitic species were detected on seven species of snails and slugs (Gastropoda,
Stojnić Bojan +5 more
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