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Spatio-temporal analysis to identify determinants of Oncomelania hupensis infection with Schistosoma japonicum in Jiangsu province, China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
With the successful implementation of integrated measures for schistosomiasis japonica control, Jiangsu province has reached low-endemicity status. However, infected Oncomelania hupensis snails could still be found in certain locations along the Yangtze ...
Huang, Yi-Xin   +8 more
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Identification of Biomphalaria havanensis and Biomphalaria obstructa populations from Cuba using polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism of the ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2001
In Cuba, several Biomphalaria species have been reported such as B. orbignyi, B. schrammi, B. helophila, B. havanensis and B. peregrina; only the latter three are considered as potential hosts of Schistosoma mansoni.
Teofânia HDA Vidigal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity and ecology of terrestrial gastropods of the Kabylia region (northern Algeria)

open access: yesEkológia (Bratislava), 2023
The snail and slug fauna of the Kabylia region (Bouira and Tizi-Ouzou) was studied during the years 2018/2019 and 2020/2021, focusing on seven stations belonging to three altitudinal levels (low, middle, and high altitude).
Sadouk Ghania   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Astronotus ocellatus (Cichlidae: Pisces) and Macropodus opercularis (Anabatidae: Pisces) as predators of immature Aedes fluviatilis (Diptera: Culicidae) and Biomphalaria glabrata (Mollusca: Planorbidae)

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1991
Two fish species, Astronotus ocellatus (Cichlidae) and Macropodus opercularis (Anabatidae) were tested for predacious behavior toward immature mosquitoes (Aedes fluviatili9s, Diptera: Culicidae) and schistosomiasis snail hosts (Biomphalaria glabrata ...
Rotraut A. G. B. Consoli   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fermenting Bread Dough as a Cheap, Effective, Nontoxic, and Generic Attractant for Pest Snails and Slugs

open access: yesInsects, 2021
Invasive slugs and snails are among the most damaging pests of agriculture in temperate and tropical regions of the world. Control options, however, are limited and there is a heavy reliance on chemical molluscicides of variable efficacy.
Robin Veasey   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding A Snail's Eye at a Snail's Pace [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican 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
openaire   +1 more source

Fighting slugs and snails on potato plantings

open access: yesОвощи России
Relevanse. The article presents information about actively spreading potential pests of agricultural crops in the Central region of the Russian Federation – slugs and snails – invertebrates belonging to the genus of gastropods.
S. V. Vasilieva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Snail [PDF]

open access: yesCell Adhesion & Migration, 2010
Snail has moved into the fast lane of development and cancer biology with the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) emerging as one of the hottest topics in medical science within the past few years. Snail not only acts primarily as a key inducer of EMT but also plays an important role in cell survival, immune regulation and stem cell biology.
Yadi, Wu, Binhua P, Zhou
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Snails as Temporal Biomonitors of the Occurrence and Distribution of Pesticides in an Apple Orchard

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2022
The intensive use of pesticides in agricultural areas and the resulting effects have created a need to develop monitoring programs for their active assessment at low cost. This research entails a biomonitoring study of the pesticides in an apple orchard,
Josephine Al-Alam   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Snail Lemma

open access: yesTheory and Applications of Categories, 2016
The author establishes a new diagrammatic statement, which he calls the snail Lemma, and which subsumes the classical snake Lemma. To be more precise, the diagrammatic statement of the author holds in the general context of a pointed, regular and protomodular category, where we can also give a sense to the snake Lemma (see [\textit{D.
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