Sentences with phrase «flatworm schmidtea»

Maggie Whitson a apondut lo nom comun «Racing Stripe Flatworm» en English a «Pseudoceros bifurcus».

YAY I GOT A FLATWORM Looks like it was possible to get on the island afterall!

Okay, first the Flatworm and now this?

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Look closing anywhere and everywhere and you see lots of really tiny stuff too, like this Sapphire flatworm

And our expert guide Ranti from Thalassa Dive Resort found us this polyclad flatworm on the back of a sea cucumber.

Looking carefully on these sponges you'll find even weirder looking critters like this Hairy squat lobster and polyclad flatworm behind it.

This week in Lembongan... We were able to find a tiny flatworm drifting in the soft current at the Mangrove dive site.

Now normally it is the dive guides with the amazing eyes to spot the tiny little creatures but on this dive, instructor Bryce was lucky to spot this flatworm that was drifting with the current, all curled up in a ball before settling on a bit of coral to open up and hang on.

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

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.

Results: Overall, findings show that the small non-coding RNA pathways are conserved in all the analyzed flatworm linages; however notable peculiarities were identified.

Other organisms currently on NHGRI 19s high - priority list for sequencing are: the cow; the South American gray, short - tailed opossum (a marsupial); the red flour beetle; the acorn worm; the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea; 10 more species of fruit fly; four more species of fungi; and two ciliated microorganisms, Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila.

His current efforts are aimed at elucidating the molecular basis of regeneration using the free - living flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea.

Similarly, a very divergent GW182 Argonaute interacting protein was identified in all flatworm linages.

The availability of flatworm draft genomes and predicted proteomes allowed us to perform an extended survey of the genes involved in small non-coding RNA pathways in this phylum.

We here described all the putative small RNA pathways present in both free living and parasitic flatworm lineages.

We used this method for profiling genes in the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni.

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).

Take one live planarian flatworm.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When cut, a planarian flatworm can use a population of stem cells called neoblasts to regenerate new heads, new tails or even entire new organisms from a tiny fragment of its body.

Newmark, currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, studies a freshwater flatworm called a planarian, a remarkable creature capable of regenerating its entire body from scratch.

In the paper, the authors stressed that understanding the genetic makeup of these molluscs is important because many «freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for flatworm parasites and transmit infectious diseases» to humans and other animals.

Here, Stubenhaus et al. studied how a flatworm called Schmidtea mediterranea makes porphyrins.

Here we report that in addition to producing an ommochrome body pigment, the planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea generates porphyrins in its subepithelial pigment cells under physiological conditions, and that this leads to pigment cell loss when animals are exposed to intense visible light.

Some sort of prize ought to be given, however, to the flatworm Pseudoceros bifurcus.

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

Now that scientists have figured out how to restore the flatworm's ability to regenerate, are humans next?

The snail - manipulating flatworm (Leucochloridium paradoxum) grows and multiplies inside the snail.

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.

An accidental discovery of a flatworm's color - changing ability could help develop treatments for porphyria, a disease that causes pain and light sensitivity in humans.

Murty has since died — though his name lives on in a namesake flatworm, Pseudodiplodiscoides murtyi — and Rao could not be located to confirm the theory.

The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea is an extraordinary animal.

«Discovery in the US of the New Guinea flatworm, one of the worst known invasive species.»

The New Guinea flatworm, which has helped decimate some snail populations on certain Pacific islands, is now rearing its head in Florida.

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.

Hannon says detailed analyses will be needed to figure out how the flatworm's stem cells are able to develop into a variety of different cell types.

«This flatworm can regenerate every part of its body except the brain,» says Hannon.

Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea flatworm, consumes land snails and thus endangers endemic species.

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.

Tourists spending a recuperative holiday on the Italian coast may be envious of the regenerative abilities of locally found flatworm Macrostomum lignano.

Each flatworm has both male and female sex organs, so a mating pair throws down to decide who will give and who will receive.

Barely the length of a fingernail, the Southeast Asian liver fluke is a flatworm that thrives in the freshwater lakes and rivers of the Mekong basin.

The results obtained in this first flatworm study between Kentucky Space and Tufts University will become the basis for their next phase of research in regenerative medicine.

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.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

This flatworm investigation does not require power or interaction from the station crew.

Himasthla species B is the first flatworm ever seen dividing into castes.

Now, a team of scientists from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) have found that many messenger molecules in the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea have alternate forms that vary in the lengths and positions of their tails.

The authors believe that these tools and methods will lay the foundation for crucial breakthroughs in the flatworm model system and in our understanding of stem cell biology and the process of regeneration.