Sentences with phrase «by flatworm»

This is caused by a flatworm larvae in the water... Wait!

Inspired by flatworm memory experiments from the 1950s, researchers are on the hunt for the elusive engram — the physical mark that a memory leaves on the brain — Laura Sanders reported in «Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 22).

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In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

A team of researchers from Kentucky Space LLC and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, will use the worms to observe repair processes and wound - healing done by cells in space during the Flatworm Regeneration investigation.

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.

Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) and whether any changes would persist after the worms returned to earth.

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be published June 13 in Regeneration.

These flatworms live off energy provided by the green algae they store in their tissues — allowing them to spend their lives sunbathing on sandy beaches

The principle behind the study, that clones avoid ageing by regulating telomeres, has also been previously studied by other researchers in flatworms.

The expert is Ken Mott and he's talking about infections caused by a group of parasitic flatworms, called trematodes or flukes.

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

- A swimming machine driven by the deformation of a sheet - like body inspired Polyclad flatworms.

Giovanni Maffei, Ivan herreros, Giovanni Maffei, Ivan herreros, Marti Sanchez - Fibla, Paul Verschure A swimming machine driven by the deformation of a sheet - like body inspired by polyclad flatworms.

Background: Small non-coding RNAs, including miRNAs, and gene silencing mediated by RNA interference have been described in free - living and parasitic lineages of flatworms, but only few key factors of the small RNA pathways have been exhaustively investigated in a limited number of species.

River waters worldwide are impacted by disease - causing agents including bacteria, protists, flatworms, viruses, and harmful algae that derive from domestic sewage and farm runoff, and / or are emergent due to nutrient pollution and climate change.

DNA sequencing by Museum scientists has revealed how endangered Australian crayfish and their symbiotic flatworms evolved together - and may soon become extinct together too.

Salmon poisoning is caused by a rickettsial organism (a very small type of bacteria) that can be found within flukes (parasitic flatworms) infecting the tissues of wild fish found in coastal streams of the Pacific Northwest.

Salmon poisoning is caused by a type of bacteria found within parasitic flatworms that infect the tissues of wild fish found in coastal streams of the Pacific Northwest.

This dive site was ideal for macro lovers considering the abundant amount of colorful nudibranchs, sea slugs and flatworms spotted by our dive guides especially in the shallows, together with crustaceans like the Hairy Shrimp; besides that it was an opportunity to spot a Denise Pygmy Seahorse!

There were a few highlights pointed by the guides like Skeleton Shrimp, Spiny Lobster, nudibranchs, flatworms, Green and Hawksbill Turtle, different species of moray eel and also a Whitetip Reef Shark!

The highlights were plentiful, ranging from Wobbegong Shark, pointed out by the Divemaster Jemy, Pygmy Cuttlefish, Papuan and Tasseled Scorpionfish, Decorator Crab ad a few different nudibranchs and flatworms.

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.