land snail
Urine Formation in a Pulmonate Land Snail, Achatina Fulica
... Urine formation in a pulmonate land snail i \ DL ; J fa Secretion vjy a Phenol red The presence of secretory mechanisms in pulmonate kidneys has been known for some time Strohl, 1913-14 [r] ...
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Land snail communities respond to control of invasive rats in New Zealand forests
... Land snail communities were sampled quantitatively at five plots in each treated and non-treated forest block on a single occasion during April–May (autumn) ...litter-associated land snails on the ...
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Glycolytic Enzyme Binding and Metabolic Control in Estivation and Anoxia in the Land Snail Otala Lactea
... Overall, then, the early response seen at 14.5 h to environmental anoxia by the land snail is qualitatively the same as that which occurs for both marine molluscs as well as vertebrate f[r] ...
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Hypometabolism, antioxidant defenses and free radical metabolism in the pulmonate land snail Helix aspersa
... Protein biosynthesis is a costly process, especially under hypometabolic conditions. Thus, it would be expected that only enzymes relevant to the maintenance of animal life would show increased activity (through ...
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Distributional Status of an Introduced Land Snail Discus rotundatus (Rotund Disc, Mollusca: Discidae) in Canada
... Canadian land snail species with a similar colour pattern is the native Anguispira alternata, but it is much larger (up to about 25 mm; pilsbry 1948), with less tightly coiled whorls (Grimm et ...
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POTENTIAL FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF SPERMATHECAL EXTRACT FROM THE LAND SNAIL ACHATINA FULICA SPECIALLY IN IMMUNO CONTRACEPTION
... Cytrosol fraction of spermatheca and / or ovotestis gland from Giant African Land Snail Achatina Fulica was found to have antifertility and immuno modulatory properties. The present experiment was conducted ...
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Using next-generation sequencing to analyse the diet of a highly endangered land snail (Powelliphanta augusta) feeding on endemic earthworms
... In this study we used 454-pyrosequencing to investigate the earthworm-based diet of Powelliphanta augusta Walker Trewick & Barker [34] (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Rhytididae), a highly endangered species of land ...
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Suppression of Na+/K+ ATPase activity during estivation in the land snail Otala lactea
... The land snail Otala lactea is a native of the seasonally arid lands of the Mediterranean region. When food or water is limiting, this pulmonate gastropod enters estivation. A variety of behavioral, ...
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Analysis of monoamines, adenosine and GABA in tissues of the land snail Helix lucorum and lizard Agama stellio stellio during hibernation
... The aim of the present study was to determine the levels of monoamines, GABA and adenosine in the brain, heart and haemolymph of the land snail Helix lucorum and in the brain, heart and blood of lizard ...
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The Influence of Pesticides on the Biology and Physiology of the Land Snail Bulimulus tenuissimus (Orbigny, 1935)
... The land snail Bulimulus tenuissimus (Orbigny, 1935) is present in many Brazilian regions [16], where it is considered an agricultural pest. It is also the only species in the family Bulimulidae cited as an ...
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Conserving New Zealand’s endemic carnivorous land snail Powelliphanta patrickensis through restoration of a functioning ecosystem
... As of 2014, New Zealand’s largest active opencast mine, covering approximately 2500 hectares, and located on the West Coast of the South Island has been granted an extension that will further impact the diverse range of ...
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Assessment of the nutritional values of Dried Bread Fruit Peel Meal (DBPM) as a replacement for Maize in the Formulated Diet of Giant Africa Land Snail Archachatina marginata (swainson)
... peeling, cooking or soaking in water can be used to reduce anti- nutritional factors in it.(Oladunjoye et al.,2010). Besides, Ejidike and Ajileye,2007 stated that breadfruit (Telfaria african) seed hull meal TASHM is a ...
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Overwintering of spiders in land-snail shells in South Moravia (Czech Republic)
... in land-snail shells is known, but the phenomenon has only rarely been ...empty land-snail shells in the xeric habitats of South Moravia (Czech ...empty land-snail shells from 31 ...
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Roblinella roblini (Petterd, 1879), a rare Tasmanian charopid land snail
... locality, on 27 Sep 2006. Yee found a single live specimen under a fern log near the base of a deep creek in wet eucalypt forest with a dense understorey of Olearia argophylla, Pomaderris apetala and Dicksonia ...
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Intraspecific morphological variation of the sperm storing organ in two hermaphroditic land snail species
... populations as they affect growth and reproduction and, most importantly, they also influence populations indi- rectly through phenotypic plasticity of traits determin- ing interactions between individuals [28]. The ...
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Pyruvate Kinase from the Land Snail Otala Lactea: Regulation by Reversible Phosphorylation During Estivation and Anoxia
... In foot muscle and mantle, the kinetic changes induced by either state were virtually identical and were consistent with a less active enzyme form in estivation or anoxia: S0.5 PEP incre[r] ...
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The effects of hypercapnia on force and rate of contraction and intracellular pH of perfused ventricles from the land snail Helix lucorum (L )
... (Krafte and Kass, 1988; Klockner and Isenberg, 1994). Although it becomes obvious from the results presented that low extracellular pH has a negative effect on heart activity, it is unclear what is the exact role of ...
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A COMPARISON OF POPULATIONS OF THE POLYMORPHIC LAND SNAIL CEPAEA NEMORALIS (L.) LIVING IN A LOWLAND DISTRICT IN FRANCE WITH THOSE IN A SIMILAR DISTRICT IN ENGLAND
... Hence, if selection by climate were the more important agent in Touraine woods, where the populations are predominantly pink, a higher frequency of morphs of formula 12346 (whi[r] ...
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Exploring the shell based taxonomy of the Sri Lankan land snail Corilla H and A Adams, 1855 (Pulmonata: Corillidae) using mitochondrial DNA
... Corilla adamsi 1: 1.6 km ne Ingiriya, Kalutara District 2: Homadola, near Udugama, Galle District 3: Kospelaketiya, Kanneliya, Galle District 4: Nakiyadeniya, Galle District Corilla bedd[r] ...
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Morphological changes and functional recovery following axotomy of a serotonergic cerebrobuccal neurone in the land snail Achatina fulica
... Unlike the giant serotonin cells of other well-studied gastropods, such as Helisoma trivolvis and Lymnaea stagnalis see Croll, 1987, the MCG of Achatina fulica possesses major projection[r] ...
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