Sentences with phrase «microscopic worm»

Sometimes the only evidence that your dog has a parasite infestation is the presence of microscopic worm eggs in the stool that can only be detected by having your vet test a stool sample.

These are small microscopic worms that feed on flea larvae — a natural way to control flea populations.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

In 2016, for example, scientists at Florida Atlantic University and the Scripps Research Institute for the first time induced seizures in nematodes, microscopic worms with just 302 brain cells.

«Scientists sequence genomes of microscopic worms beneficial to agriculture: Study identifies gene families in five nematodes that are likely to be involved in parasitism.»

By sequencing the genomes of five insect - parasitic microscopic worms and comparing them to other well - studied species, his research team was successful in identifying some of these elusive genetic elements that control when genes are turned on or off.

Firstly, that «the embryo has no precursors of nerves or blood, so it can not possibly know or experience anything» so it has «less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water».

If the currents of the oceans try the above athletic healthy human, what makes you think a microscopic worm can make it through it's rigors.

Description: Nematodes are microscopic worms that feed on the plant roots.

The team at Salk started with a simple creature, the microscopic worm called Caenorhabditis elegans.

By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.

C. elegans is a microscopic worm that like humans highly expresses a family of proteins in the nervous system called ADARs — adenosine deaminases that act on RNA — a family that includes ADR - 1.

Plant - parasitic nematodes are microscopic worms that parasitize their host plants to withdraw water and nutrients.

The early adopter is a microscopic worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.

The microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a story to tell, and Cori Bargmann wants to hear it.

These microscopic worms eat flea larvae and are therefore a natural way to control the flea population.

These microscopic worms enter the pup's bloodstream and live in his heart, lungs and associated blood vessels, causing lung disease, heart failure and other organ damage.

Another option is external treatments containing Nematodes (a microscopic worm) which kill the flea eggs and larvae before they even reach your cat.

Concentrate on shady areas, where fleas live, and use an insecticide or nematodes, microscopic worms that kill flea larvae.

Coinciding with mosquito season, heartworm disease is carried by the mosquito as an intermediate host, who when it bites a dog, transmits the microscopic worm into the dog's bloodstream.

The coconut weevil (beetle) carries a microscopic worm like organism (nematode) that kills the tree.