Differential spatial repositioning of activated genes in Biomphalaria glabrata snails infected with Schistosoma mansoni [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright @ 2014 Arican-Goktas et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and
Halime D Arican-Goktas +11 more
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Wet adhesion and adhesive locomotion of snails on anti-adhesive non-wetting surfaces [PDF]
, 2012 Creating surfaces capable of resisting liquid-mediated adhesion is extremely difficult due to the strong capillary forces that exist between surfaces.
McHale Glen +14 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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Ants as shell collectors: notes on land snail shells found around ant nests [PDF]
Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2009 We investigated the shell collecting activities of harvester ants (Messor spp.) in semi-arid grasslands and shrubs in Turkey. We found eleven species of snails in the area, two of them were not collected by ants.
Barna Páll-Gergely, Péter Sólymos
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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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Schistosomes and snails: A molecular encounter [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright © 2014 Knight, Arican-Goktas, Ittiprasert, Odoemelam, Miller and Bridger. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Knight, M +16 more
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Wild record of an apple snail in the Waikato River, Hamilton, New Zealand and their incidence in freshwater aquaria [PDF]
, 2011 We report the discovery of a single specimen of a live apple snail Pomacea diffusa Blume 1957 (Ampullariidae: Prosobranchia), from the Waikato River, Hamilton city, central North Island, New Zealand. This species, along with the congeneric P.
Demetras, Nicholas J. +3 more
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SURVEY OF TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC MALACOPHAGOUS INSECTS IN SHARQUIA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT AND THE PREDATORY ACTIVITY OF PTEROSTICHUS BARBAROUS DEJEAN [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Science, 2019 A survey of aquatic and terrestrial malacophagous insects associated with snails was carried out during 2016-2018 in Sharquia Governorate. Four terrestrial snails and three aquatic snails were collected.
Asmaa M. Zaki +2 more
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Pathogens, 2022 Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by blood flukes (Schistosoma spp.). Schistosomatids affect a wide array of vertebrate hosts, including humans.
Sharmin Shahid Labony +10 more
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Why do snails have hairs? A Bayesian inference of character evolution [PDF]
, 2005 Background: Costly structures need to represent an adaptive advantage in order to be maintained over evolutionary times. Contrary to many other conspicuous shell ornamentations of gastropods, the haired shells of several Stylommatophoran land snails ...
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