Land Snails
Irish Cepaea nemoralis land snails have a cryptic Franco Iberian origin that is most easily explained by the movements of mesolithic humans
... for land snails to be transported in the cargo ...‘‘farming’’ land snails for thousands of years, with the majority of these shells being ...transported land snails, either ...
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Molecular phylogenetic history of eastern Mediterranean Alopiinae, a group of morphologically indeterminate land snails
... The clausiliid genera Albinaria, Cristataria, Isabellaria, Sericata and Carinigera The species currently classified with the genus Albinaria were among the first land snails to attract the attention of ...
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Natural annual cycle of heat shock protein expression in land snails: desert versus Mediterranean species of Sphincterochila
... in land snails the transition from activity to aestivation activates the water-preserving mechanisms to their full capacity until the aestivation metabolism sets ...that land snails use two ...
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Occurrence of Rhabditid Nematodes in the Pet Giant African Land Snails (Achatina fulica)
... African land snails, kept in three different private collections located in Pozzuoli, Caserta, and Naples (Italy), were investigated for ...individual snails each. The snails included in this ...
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Monitoring Powelliphanta land snails: an assessment of the current technique and the development of a new mark-recapture technique
... unmarked snails. Finally, snails are generally more sedentary and slow moving than many other animals that are studied in the wild using mark-recapture ...of snails that are migrating to/from the ...
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Assessment of Non-carcinogenic Human Health Risk of some Heavy Metals in Land Snails commonly consumed in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
... The body burden of Pb, Cu, Zn and Fe in two edible species of land snails (A. achatinaand L. flammea) obtained from the wild in Bayelsa State Nigeria and the non-carcinogenic health risk consequent upon the ...
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Immersion anaesthesia with ethanol in African giant land snails (Acathina fulica)
... in land snails; however, the authors only reported that the snails recovered from anaesthesia within two hours from the end of immersion, and did not provide any detail pertaining to quality of ...
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NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION OF AFRICAN GIANT LAND SNAILS (Archachatina marginata) FED RUMEN CONTENT INCLUSION
... raising land snails mainly for man use, either to use their flesh as edible food, or to obtain snail slime for use in cosmetics, or snail eggs for human consumption (Omole, ...African land ...
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Trace Metals Levels in African Giant Land Snails (Achatina achatina) from Selected Local Government Areas in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
... Adedeji et al., [11] recorded a concentration of 0.01 mg/kg Cd in snail from Alaro River within Oluyole in- dustrial area in Ibadann Nigeria. Sivaperumal et al. [17] found Cd concentrations ranging from undetectable to ...
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Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the larger camaenid land snails of eastern Queensland rainforests: (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Camaenidae)
... CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION: The Camaenidae Systematic position of the Camaenidae Recent and fossil distributions Classification of the Australian Camaenidae Aims of this study 1 4 8 11 16 2[r] ...
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Biogeography of Tasmanian native land snails
... Elsothera limula Pemagera kingstonensis Pemagera officeri Pemagera architectonica Pemagera tasmaniae Pemagera "Waratah" Dentherona dispar Dentherona subrugosa Roblinella agnewi Roblinell[r] ...
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Discontinuous Carbon Dioxide Release and Metabolic Depression in Dormant Land Snails
... Moreover, specific ventilation of active snails changes with temperature, so PCo and haemolymph pH change with temperature in the 'alphastat' pattern Barnhart, Fluctuations of Vo during [r] ...
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Bioavailability of Agricultural Pesticides on the Land Snails in the Commune of Kérou in the North of Benin
... 6 snails each. The snails are exposed to soil and plants without special protection and are therefore exposed to environmental ...of snails after ...of snails in the different ...6 ...
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Land Snails (Helix aspersa) as Bioindicators of Trace Element Contamination in Campania (Italy)
... the snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks, can be considered efficient sentinels to evaluate the presence of metals into the envi- ronment because for them there are so many factors that affect the accumulation of ...
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Depression of Aerobic Metabolism and Intracellular pH by Hypercapnia in Land Snails, Otala Lactea
... McMAHON Department of Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Accepted 7 April 1988 Summary The pulmonate land snail Otala lactea undergoes simultaneous hypercap[r] ...
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Evidence of introgressive hybridization between the morphologically divergent land snails Ainohelix and Ezohelix
... White and black nodes indicate haplotypes of Ainohelix editha, Ezohelix gainesi, respectively.. Gray nodes indicate the other three species, Karaftohelix blakeana, Paraegista takahidei a[r] ...
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Developmental stages and quality traits of giant African land snails [Archachatina marginata (swainson)] eggs
... Although, snails are hermaphrodites, they practice se- xual reproduction ...that snails are very choosy in their mating partners and sometimes are uninterested in mating with other snails of the same ...
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First establishment of microsatellite markers in clausiliid snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clausiliidae)
... (door snails) are gastropods with a very high diversity concerning shell morphology, especially of their complex closing apparatus, which provides the most important diagnostic traits for classification of ...
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Calcium, snails, and birds: a case study
... Recent studies have shown that wild birds breeding in acidified areas have difficulties with obtaining sufficient calcium for their eggshells, and that the cause of it is the short- age of land snails. Many ...
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Intraspecific variation of venom injected by fish hunting Conus snails
... individual snails, and three general categories of profiles were ...ten snails injected predominantly peptide s4a (Fig.·1A), whereas five snails injected a combination of peptides s4a and s4b ...
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