Sentences with phrase «marine snails»

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

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

The queen conch is an iconic Caribbean marine snail whose populations have declined significantly over the last two decades due to overfishing.

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

MOLECULES which protect tiny marine snails from being eaten by fish may also prevent them from getting scorched by the Sun, according to scientists who have unravelled the chemistry behind the bizarre behaviour of a shrimp - like Antarctic crustacean.

Zorrilla's experimental antiobesity vaccine consists of ghrelin molecules chemically linked to hemocyanin, a protein extracted from the keyhole limpet marine snail.

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.

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.

Long - tailed macaques in the coastal areas in south - western Thailand and Myanmar, for example, have learned to use stone tools to crack open rock oysters and marine snails during low tides.

Her interdisciplinary research combines chemistry and biology to characterizevenomous marine snails and analyze their peptide toxins as tools formanipulating cell signaling in the nervous system.

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.

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

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

These marine snails also have just 20,000 or so neurons, compared with the 100 billion in people.

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.

By the end of the first trimester, when most women will see their fetus for the first time through an ultrasound scan, its neural circuitry is roughly on a par with that of an earthworm or a marine snail, says David Edelman, a consciousness researcher at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.

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 marine snail, Hinea brasiliana, radiates green light to startle predators, so the snail can make a quick — or at least relatively quick — get away.

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.

Our experiment shows that these changes may be unpredictable because the combination of temperature and acidification changes the amount and type of biofilm, green rock slime at the base of the intertidal food web, while reducing the ability of marine snails to eat it.

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).