Sentences with phrase «characterizevenomous marine snails»

It's a seafood burger made with the succulent meat from conchs, which are giant marine snails.

I went to the marine snail, Aplysia, I worked out a simple reflex, the neurocircuitry that reflex could be modified and so how it be learnt.

The marine snail, Aplysia, fit the bill, having only about 20,000 nerve cells compared with about a 100 billion in the human brain.

Abalone, on the other hand, now costs about $ 70 a plate — 10 times as much as when it first became popular in the 1920s — reflecting years of overharvesting so severe that the marine snails may never recover.

A new research study on marine snails uncovered the first cells in the nervous system to fail during aging.

Most of the species were mollusks, including marine snails, nudibranchs and oysters.

An increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast.

Conditioned fear is easy: Fruit flies, marine snails, even lizards can be trained to display defensive behavior in response to threatening stimuli, along the lines of the tone and shock experiments.

For mussels, that can mean thinner shells, making them more vulnerable to predators like the dogwhelk, a marine snail that attacks mussels by drilling through their shells.

The Cone Snails While growing up in the Philippines, biochemist Baldomero Olivera collected the shells of cone snails — small, tropical marine snails whose harpoonlike hook snags and paralyzes fish.

The shells of marine snails known as pteropods, an important link in the marine food web, are already dissolving.

The Conus genus boasts a large variety of marine snails that have adopted an equally diverse assortment of venoms.

The shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast are dissolving in an increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean.

These tiny marine snails that appear winged and beautifully translucent in close - ups are essential to the ocean food web.

If he decides to set up a marine tank, he may believe that marine snails all function the same way, buying a half - dozen turbo snails to eat the algae in his 75 - gallon tank.

Named for the marine snail found all over our serene white beaches, our Conch floor plan includes 2 - 4 bedroom layouts, surrounding gardens, entertaining spaces and a private pool with an optional infinity edge.

I was trying to refer to the large extinction event that occurred some 65 million years ago; if you wanted to date the event using the sedimentary record it would be better to look at a widespread, well - preserved fossil type — a marine snail or something — rather then dinosaurs.

Already — not decades from now as scientists previously expected — corrosive shelf water off the continental shelf of the West Coast is eating away at the shells of tiny free - swimming marine snails, called pteropods, that swim near the ocean's surface and provide food for a variety of fishes, including salmon, mackerel, and herring.

Aragonite - A calcium carbonate (limestone) mineral, used by shell - or skeleton - forming, calcifying organisms such as corals (warm - and coldwater corals), some macroalgae, pteropods (marine snails) and non-pteropod molluscs such as bivalves (e.g., clams, oysters), cephalopods (e.g., squids, octopuses).

Not exact matches

Abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) is a highly prized marine gastropod mollusc (sea snail) with a unique flavour and texture.

They find the fossil bed rich with dozens of species of marine invertebrates, such as crabs, snails, clams, sea urchins, large flat oysters and ammonites, as well as fish teeth and scales.

Jellison and colleagues from the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory collected ochre sea stars and black turban snails — two common species along the Pacific coastline — from tide pools on the Bodega Marine Reserve.

Scientists from Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center confirmed the presence of dozens of species native to Japanese coastal waters — including barnacles, starfish, urchins, anemones, amphipods, worms, mussels, limpets, snails, solitary tunicates and algae — that were on a large floating dock in Japan that washed ashore at Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon in June 2012.

Experiments at UC Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become more acidic, a consequence of climate change.

The nearly 400 creatures pictured here include roughly 200 species of fish, crabs, worms, shrimp, algae, snails and other marine invertebrates.

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

As such, they were able to use fossil records to assess the baseline extinction risk for marine animals, including sharks, whales and dolphins, as well as small sedentary organisms such as snails, clams and corals.

The most obvious peril is that marine organisms like clams and sea snails either can't build their calcium carbonate shells or find their housing harder to maintain.

While the higher - CO2 snails were more active in general, they moved in «wiggly lines, and some even went in a circle,» says study coauthor and marine biologist Sue - Ann Watson of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

Canus abbreviatus is a carnivorous snail living off the coast of Hawaii that primarily hunts marine worms, which it stuns with neurotoxins and then devours.

They found live forams as well as other live marine animals, such as snails, clams, and worms.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

In March marine scientists explored a container that landed off California in 2004 and saw crabs, octopuses, and snails living on and around it.

It doesn't eat the fresh tissue but instead waits until fungus riddles the leaf wound, explains Brian Silliman of Brown University in Providence, R.I. Snail droppings boost the amount of fungus that grows in the cut, say Silliman and Steven Y. Newell of the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island.

As they analyzed a pair of 66 - to 100 - million - year - old plesiosaur skeletons found near Hokkaido, Japan, the researchers realized the fossilized bones of the toothy, quad - flippered marine reptiles * were surrounded by fossilized shell fragments from provannids, a type of tiny snail.

A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals

Cone snails are abundant in most tropical marine waters, especially around coral reefs.

Ocean acidification threatens the ability of pteropods to form their fragile shells, putting a range of commercially important fish at risk that depend on the small snails for food, including salmon, herring and yellowfin tuna as well as mammals like baleen whales, ringed seals and marine birds.

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On a side note, I have observed that it is extremely important to specifically feed marine invertebrates such as crabs, hermit crabs, snails, sea hares, starfish, anemones and many others.

(The taxonomic class Gastropoda encompasses all snails, be they freshwater, marine or land - based.)

They are quite diverse, and unless you have snail experts working the marine department, mixing different types of snails in one tank can cause a big problem when it comes to identifying them.

Other snails are carnivores, and they will eat only animals and animal products, posing a danger to many different types of marine livestock, including fish.

There is a large variety such marine vegetation, particularly sea weed, and numerous organisms include abalone, anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, sculpin, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea palms, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, surf grass, tube worms, and whelks.

It is the main component of shells of marine organisms, snails, pearls, and eggshells and is a completely stable mineral, widely used in the building industry to make cement and other materials and also in hospitals to make plaster casts.»

The DNA sequences for four marine organisms, tube anemone, pelagic snail, ambereye shrimp, and Arctic sea star.

«Acidification actually threatens all marine animals and plants with calcareous skeletons, including corals, snails, clams and crabs.

Theoretical considerations and some empirical data also indicate that continued climate change at its present pace would be detrimental to many species of marine clams and snails, fish, tropical ectotherms, and some species of plants (examples and citations below).

Each ribbon of pond provides a wee little marine world replete with fiddler crabs, minnows and other schooling fish, in addition to sea snails and the occasional horseshoe crabs.