Sentences with phrase «called nematodes»

Dog Roundworms (also called nematodes) are 3 to 5 inches long and live in your dog's intestines.

You may be wondering why roundworms (also called Nematodes) are so common in puppies, and what causes them.

When he mentioned that he'd recently eaten sushi, his doctors suspected anisakiasis — a parasitic disease caused by tiny worms, called nematodes, that attach to the wall of the stomach, esophagus, or intestine.

Experiments with mice, fruit flies, yeast cells, and tiny worms called nematodes, or roundworms, have pointed to environmental modifications that can extend life span dramatically.

So he contacted Gaetan Borgonie, a nematologist at Ghent University in Belgium, who collected and filtered tens of thousands of liters of water samples from five mines in the area to find the rare creatures, which belong to the worm group called nematodes.

When Oliveira and colleagues looked at the leaves under an electron microscope, they noticed tiny roundworms called nematodes sitting on the leaves (inset image).

It contains microscopic bacteria and fungi, as well as tiny worms called nematodes and other invertebrates.

For instance, the researchers present evidence that tardigrades are close cousins, or a sister group, to worms called nematodes.

To a tiny worm called a nematode, slugs may be the ultimate sexy ride: moist, secure, and maybe even pre-loaded with snacks.

Not exact matches

As a proof of concept for this study, the researchers tested the plant virus - derived nanoparticles with a nematicide called crystal violet, which has been used to kill nematodes on skin but not in agriculture.

«But the nervous system in both nematode worms and humans is organized into small functional units called neural circuits, where neurons communicate with each other to control a simple outcome, such as behavior.»

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil - dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food.

Andriuzzi, who led field work in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, called Antarctic nematodes «remarkable creatures.»

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

Drugs that activate this novel stress response pathway, which they call the mitochondrial - to - cytosolic stress response, protected both nematodes and cultured human cells with Huntington's disease from protein - folding damage.

Whole - genome chips exist already for five other organisms: the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a plant called Arabidopsis tumefaciens, and the gut bacterium Escherichia coli.

A team of biophysicists from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo used magnetic nanoparticles to control heat - activated protein gates called ion channels embedded in the membranes of nerve cells, allowing the researchers to stimulate a simple reflex in nematode worms at will.

Whereas in the nematode experiment the researchers targeted nanoparticles to temperature - sensitive ion channels that naturally exist in the membranes of the worms» nerve cells, the scientists inserted the gene for a heat - activated ion channel called TRPV1 into the human and rat cells.

An international research team led from Uppsala University has discovered a new type of so - called transposable element that occurred in the genomes of certain birds and nematodes.

To find out, Leifer and his collaborators genetically engineered the one - millimeter - long nematode worm to make particular cells in its body sensitive to light, a technique called optogenetics, developed in recent years by Stanford University psychiatrist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth [see Deisseroth's «Controlling the Brain with Light,» Scientific American, November 2010].

Lambshead calls for more research into nematodes.

Even the deepest parts of the ocean — with pressures up to 1000 times that at the surface — are buzzing with shrimp - like creatures called amphipods, as well as sea cucumbers, nematodes and other worms, and bacteria.

With an eye toward shifting that balance, the scientists inserted into mice a gene called fat - 1, which in nematode worms produces an enzyme that converts omega - 6 fats into omega - 3 fats.

In a new study published Friday in the journal Science, a team of researchers has shown that such «epigenetic» memories can be passed down for 14 generations in a tiny nematode worm species called Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworms).

In a new study published Friday in the journal Science, a team of researchers has shown that such «epigenetic» memories can be passed down for 14 generations in a tiny nematode worm species called Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm).

«All of these nematodes speak the same chemical language,» through the use of compounds called ascarosides, said study co-author Frank Schroeder, a research scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research and adjunct assistant professor in Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Study The researchers experimented with various types - or strains as scientists prefer to call them - of the minuscule nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.