Sentences with phrase «freshwater flatworm»
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.
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Maggie Whitson agregó en English el nombre común «A family of freshwater flatworms» a «Dugesiidae».
Maggie Whitson acrescentou em English o nome comum «A family of freshwater flatworms» a «Dugesiidae».
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Schistosomiasis infects people when they wade in freshwater containing the parasitic flatworms.
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.
Schistosomiasis is transmitted via flatworms shed by the freshwater snails that serve as the parasite's non-human host.
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.