Sentences with phrase «as flatworms»

Other types of worms includes those that invade the lungs and kidneys such as flatworms.

As flatworms age, or should they encounter cellular damage, they have the ability to renew their cells.

It was classified as a flatworm, then, in the 1990s as a simplified mollusk.

The vampirelike bleaching happens as the flatworm's skin cells begin to overproduce porphyrin, a pigment that gives them their natural color.

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As the embryo and then fetus grow we move through levels of potential consciousness that start out lower than a flatworm.

Near the top of that list is the New Zealand flatworm, a relative newcomer to Ireland's shores, which feeds on native earthworms that provide important ecosystem services as well as currying favor with farmers for enhancing the fertility and drainage of agricultural soils.

There are enough troublesome pests in Ireland today, such as the introduced New Zealand flatworm, which people would like to send on its merry way with some modern - day St. Patrick - style sorcery.

Levin is now studying flatworms as obsessively as tadpoles.

When these chemicals enter streams and ponds, they increase the amount of algae, which is then eaten by snails that serve as a host for the flatworms.

The flatworm is ideal for studying stem cells, says lead author Kaja Wasik, who conducted the work as a PhD student in Hannon's lab along with co-lead author James Gurtowski from Schatz's lab.

The land planarian Platydemus manokwari, or New Guinea flatworm, is a highly invasive species, already reported in many territories in the Pacific area, and as well as in France.

Strausfeld and Wolff looked at both the neuroanatomy and chemical composition of mushroom bodies in numerous species belonging to two major groups of invertebrates: Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans and other arthropods such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs; and Lophotrochozoa, which includes mollusks, flatworms and segmented worms.

The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea are flatworms with bilateral symmetry used as models in the research on cell regeneration and stem cells.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm native to southern Europe and Tunisia, turns from brown to white when exposed to sunlight for 24 or more hours, as scientists discovered when they were studying regeneration in the species.

Schistosomiasis is transmitted via flatworms shed by the freshwater snails that serve as the parasite's non-human host.

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Strange green flatworms, also known as «mint - sauce worms,» collect together in shallow waters along much of Europe's Atlantic coast, forming what researchers call a «superorganism.»

SEX BOTH WAYS: Hermaphroditic flatworms engage in what's known as reciprocal mating, in which two individuals will both inseminate and be inseminated simultaneously via the penetration of the stylet (flatworm penis) into the antrum (flatworm vagina).

Other model systems are emerging that use the same sperm fluorescence technique, such as in a flour beetle, Tribolium (also at Syracuse University), and in the transparent hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano (at the University of Basel).

Other key factors such as Dicer are also duplicated, with Dicer - 2 showing structural differences between trematodes, cestodes and free - living flatworms.

This stool analysis determines the presence of ova and parasites such as protozoa, flatworms, and roundworms; Cryptosporidium parvum, Entamoeba histolytica, and Giardia lamblia antigens; bacteria, fungi (including yeasts), and occult blood; and Clostridium difficile colitis toxins A and B. Sensitivity to pathogenic organisms will be reported as necessary.

The main problem lies with the fact that it pales in comparison to its main influence; it is nowhere near as atmospheric as Ridley Scott's landmark film and a kind of floaty, translucent flatworm with wings is nowhere near as threatening as H. R. Giger's creation.

- Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that use fleas as an intermediate host, then infect the kitten when a flea is eaten.

With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.

Some of the macro life seen on this dive included: Orangutan Crab, flatworms, blennies, Hydroid Crab and also the first specimen of the endemic Raja Ampat Epaulette Shark, also known as the Walking Shark.

There were plenty of options both in terms of pelagic, Black tip and Grey Reef Shark, Napoleon Wrasse and schooling fusiliers, as of macro, Orangutan Crab, nudibranchs, like the Pikachu, flatworms and pipefishes, like the Ringed Pipefish.

Critters abound in the area too and you can encounter ghost pipefish and pygmy seahorses as well as nudibranchs and flatworms.

So get good and low and bury your head in the sand to find a whole cache of hidden creatures, such as ghost pipefish, seahorses, frogfish, flatworms, arrow crabs and sea moths.

Chuck Webster's «Slow Path» serves as a looping segue to the flatworms in drag, waiting to divide, by Pamela Blank - Rosenblum, followed by her machine maps.

Parasitic worms called trematodes, also known as flukes and flatworms, would attempt to feed on these ancient clams and the clams would respond by developing pits to keep them out.

As it turns out, corals, kelps, sea slugs, sponges, nudibranchs and flatworms all exhibit hyperbolic anatomical features.

It was the brainy idea of a mathematics researcher and crocheter who realized that she could recreate in crochet 3 - D models of creatures such as corals, anemones, kelps, sponges and flatworms.