Sentences with phrase «in sea slugs»

For their part, Byrne and company will now use these same techniques to try to optimize other aspects of the memory formation process in sea slugs.

At a time when brain researchers thought nothing could be learned from invertebrates, Kandel stunned the fledgling world of neuroscience by uncovering the mechanisms of memory in sea slugs, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 2000.

«Further tests conducted at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience demonstrated that this compound was more toxic to cancer cell lines than other compounds found in sea slugs.»

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

For instance, when the researchers analyzed 146 human genes implicated in 168 neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, they found 104 counterpart genes in the sea slugs.

Not exact matches

Depending on whim and availability, guests to Buckland's house might be served baked guinea pig, mice in batter, roasted hedgehog, or boiled Southeast Asian sea slug.

A wily sea slug has a way to get two meals in one: It gobbles up smaller predators that have recently gulped in their own prey.

The sea slug was the model organism for Kreiner's thesis research, which explored how cellular mechanisms mediate simple behaviors and led to a publication in Science.

Long - term memory, reflected in the extended flexion of the gill and the neural architecture of the sea slug, was the end result of the whole chemical parade.

Many of the same molecules have been implicated in both declarative and nondeclarative memory and in species as varied as sea slugs, fruit flies, and rodents, suggesting that the molecular machinery for memory has been widely conserved.

The sea slug Aplysia californica, a red, green or brown hermaphrodite that can grow up to 16 inches long, has the biggest brain cells, or neurons, in the animal kingdom, at up to a millimeter long.

Sea slugs (Pleurobranchaea) don't normally travel in pairs, but researchers saw several duos following October's trawl.

She said while fish recognised visual signals such as bright colours, the presence of the same toxic compound in the closely related sea slugs suggested that something else was at play.

One afternoon in the late 1980s, a young marine biologist named Drew Harvell unearthed dozens of sea slugs in an upstate New York warehouse.

In one patch of reef in the Philippines, researchers found more than 40 different kinds of sea slugs that are likely new to science, including the lacy - looking specimen abovIn one patch of reef in the Philippines, researchers found more than 40 different kinds of sea slugs that are likely new to science, including the lacy - looking specimen abovin the Philippines, researchers found more than 40 different kinds of sea slugs that are likely new to science, including the lacy - looking specimen above.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Sea slugs march north, hinting at US climate shift»

WARM waters in the Pacific Ocean are encouraging dozens of species of nudibranch sea slugs to head north at a surprising pace.

At the moment, it is still just a proof of principle in Aplysia californica, the sea slugs that are star animals in the laboratories of neuroscientists.

Steve: It is an excellent point; I mean, John, you quote Eric Kandel in your article and Eric Kandel won the Nobel prize for his groundbreaking research into memory and that work was done with a sea slug and basically they have teased out the most basic workings of memory in an invertebrate and these other folks like Kurzweil think that within his lifetime, you're going to be able to understand all the workings of the human brain to the point where you can basically replicate it.

Sea slugs have it down to a fine art, engaging in «sperm trading» to ensure that both partners get their fare share.

In collaborations with others, the team has added expertise in rats and sea slugIn collaborations with others, the team has added expertise in rats and sea slugin rats and sea slugs.

Neurobiologist Craig Bailey uses confocal microscopy to track the learning - related changes in synapses of the sea slug Aplysia.

Earlier this year, scientists found an invasion in the making: A sea slug that regularly feasts on algae was found to have absorbed algal genes — the ones used to do photosynthesis.

Though it resembles a sea slug as it attaches to the seabed, Madonna's Bra is not in fact a sea slug at all.

Other issues include straddling stocks (relevant in the Belize / Honduras / Guatemala area), harvesting of marine resources such as sea slugs / cucumbers (which was certainly never thought of 1948), protection of mangroves, seagrass and other marine habitat, etc..

This beautiful wall is filled with rocks and hard coral — the perfect place for these little crustaceous and sea slugs to hide in.

This dive site was ideal for macro lovers considering the abundant amount of colorful nudibranchs, sea slugs and flatworms spotted by our dive guides especially in the shallows, together with crustaceans like the Hairy Shrimp; besides that it was an opportunity to spot a Denise Pygmy Seahorse!

Incredible photographs captured off Singapore's «Ghost Island» showcase the dive site's sea - slug inhabitants in all their riotous colour.

In the past, we've enjoyed sea slug brooches and nautical jewellery, all lovingly made out of felt.

With the inordinate quantities of time now available to the average mug in post-manufacturing-Australia, workshops for new learning could abound, what do you want to learn; How To Knit A Mud Brick Macramé Skivvy, Build Your Dream Hut From Sea - Weed And Snot, How To Prevent Post Birth Waste by Eating Your Own Placenta, Catch and Cook Your Own Slugs Using Only a Hangman's Noose and Some Stolen Kerosene, the options are endless.

But, in any case, regions around the world with natural, volcanically - influenced pH around 7.8 have no sea life with shells / skeletons, so look forward to your sea slug & jellyfish servings.

As for the «ears» — over on Deep Sea News, Dr. Craig McClain explains that those are really rhinophores, organs that help the sea slug sense chemicals dissolved in the water and also detect changes in currenSea News, Dr. Craig McClain explains that those are really rhinophores, organs that help the sea slug sense chemicals dissolved in the water and also detect changes in currensea slug sense chemicals dissolved in the water and also detect changes in currents.

From the underwater family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs, these sea slugs come in some of the brightest colors known to the animal world, and we sure love them around here.

Gosliner grew up in California, sleuthing the tide pools; his sea slug fate was determined as a teen upon being introduced to his first live nudibranch.

For Terry Gosliner, fervor comes in the form of a far - out - looking soft - bodied marine mollusk known as a nudibranch, also familiarly called a sea slug.

Love is in the air and with that in mind, here's a glance at how the nudibranch sea slugs do Cole Porter proud.

In the words of Cole Porter, «birds do it, bees do it, even educated sea slugs do it»?

«Also my favorite mollusk is very rare Coryphella polaris, a large nudibranch [sea slug], who live under 30m in the dark and cold water and is so beautiful — I just don't know any animal better,» he states.

«We've designed Cyberslug to reproduce the relationships that we found in the brain of the real sea slug predator,» Gillette told Digital Trends.

Drizzle with a few slugs of olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt and bake in the oven until the eggplant is golden.