Sentences with phrase «flatworm called»

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.

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

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.

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

Starving yeast and flatworms live longer when they express a gene called Sir2 (ScienceNOW, 8 May, 2003).

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.»

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.

Dog Flatworms (also called Trematodes or Flukes): These dog worms types often hook themselves to your dog in their intestines, lungs and liver.

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.