Lumbricus Terrestris
Scaling of the hydrostatic skeleton in the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris
... The structural and functional consequences of changes in size or scale have been well studied in animals with rigid skeletons, but relatively little is known about scale effects in animals with hydrostatic skeletons. We ...
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Genetically engineered antifungal wheat has no detrimental effects on the key soil species Lumbricus terrestris
... species Lumbricus terrestris as important ecosystem engineer and studied its performance when feeding on GE antifungal ...L. terrestris and overall ...L. terrestris and ecosystem services like ...
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Kinematic scaling of locomotion by hydrostatic animals: ontogeny of peristaltic crawling by the earthworm lumbricus terrestris
... earthworm Lumbricus terrestris scales with geometric similarity as well as static and dynamic stress ...L. terrestris is kinematically similar when the motions are normalized by body length (the ...
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Bioaccumulation Potential of Heavy Metals in Lumbricus Terrestris and Associated Soils in Municipal Open Dumpsites
... (Lumbricus terrestris) and in soil samples from three domestic dumpsites located in Owerri, Nigeria were measured spectrophotometrically ...in Lumbricus terrestris were, ...and ...
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Single-particle cryo-EM using alignment by classification (ABC): the structure of Lumbricus terrestris haemoglobin
... Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can now yield near- atomic resolution structures of biological complexes. However, the reference- based alignment algorithms commonly used in cryo-EM suffer from ...
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Combining μXANES and μXRD mapping to analyse the heterogeneity in calcium carbonate granules excreted by the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris
... K emission lines) on calcium carbonate is only around 5 mm. Hence the sampling volumes of the mXANES and mXRD maps are somewhat different. In spite of this the mXRD and mXANES maps are very similar and thus we conclude ...
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Population collapse of Lumbricus terrestris in conventional arable cultivations and response to straw applications
... example, Lumbricus terrestris is associated with soil pore formation and water in fi ltration (Edwards et ...L. terrestris populations can remain virtually absent despite conversion to zero tillage ...
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Ontogenetic scaling of hydrostatic skeletons: geometric, static stress and dynamic stress scaling of the earthworm lumbricus terrestris
... to Lumbricus terrestris The first objective of the present study was to generate predictions for the geometric, static stress and dynamic stress scaling hypotheses for hydrostatic skeletons on the basis of ...
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Milled cereal straw accelerates earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) growth more than selected organic amendments
... encouraged. Lumbricus terrestris earthworms primarily feed on organic inputs to soils but it is not known which organic amendments are the most effective for increasing earthworm ...
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Intracellular Recording of Electrical Activity in Muscle Cells of Intact and Isolated Dorsal Blood Vessel of the Earthworm Lumbricus Terrestris
... Intracellular electrical records from muscle cells in intact dorsal blood vessels of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris, showed a polarization rhythm which consisted of: a a prolonged r[r] ...
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Ontogenetic scaling of burrowing forces in the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris
... Muscle area was measured from digital images acquired in a previous study (Quillin, 1998). The digital images show sagittal sections of 20 earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) ranging in size from 0.16 to 7.5 ...
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The Arginase Activity of the Tissues of the Earthworms Lumbricus Terrestris L , and Eisenia Foetida (Savigny)
... The specific activity of the gut of fasting Lumbricus was significantly greater than that of Eisenia, and the species difference in urea output by living fasting worms must depend mainly[r] ...
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Locomotion and Coelomic Pressure in Lumbricus Terrestris L
... Simultaneous records of coelomic pressure of Lumbricus in segments 12 above and 38 centre during the passage of a backward locomotory wave resulting in forward locomotion.. The cannulae [r] ...
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The Immobilization of Locomotory Movements in the Earthworm, Lumbricus Terrestris
... From a series of tests, carried out on eighteen worms, the following general rules, as to the effects of mechanical stimuli in different regions, were obtained: i Stimuli applied on the [r] ...
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The Rapid Escape Response of the Earthworm Lumbricus Terrestris L : Overlapping Sensory Fields of the Median And Lateral Giant Fibres
... The interpretation of externally recorded waveforms such as those presented in this study is based on the work of the latter authors, which accords with known morphological details of th[r] ...
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Components of Nitrogenous Excreta in the Earthworms Lumbricus Terrestris, L and Eisenia Foetida (Savigny)
... Eisenia differs from Lumbricus in the following respects: a it has a much higher specific output of total nitrogen and of the ammonia fraction; b ammonia constitutes a higher percentage [r] ...
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Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the annelid worm Lumbricus terrestris.
... Genetic code: Lumbricus mtDNA appears to share the variations of the mitochondrial genetic code that are typical of other invertebrate mtDNAs (see WOLSTEN- H O I " [r] ...
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Temperature Acclimation of the Functional Parameters of the Giant Nerve Fibres in Lumbricus Terrestris L
... Temperature dependence of the conduction velocity and the duration of the rising and falling phase of action potential was studied in the median and lateral giant fibres of the nerve cor[r] ...
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Stretch sensitive neural units in the body wall of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris L
... In every segment of nine preparations a single neural unit which responded to longitudinal stretch was found in segmental nerve I SN I.. A typical response to sinusoidal stretch consiste[r] ...
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Sodium and chloride transport in the isolated intestine of the earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris (L )
... an observed flux ratio which differs significantly from either unity, in short-circuited preparations, or from the flux ratio calculated from Ussing's equation Ussing, 1949, in open-circ[r] ...
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