Sentences with phrase «of flatworms»

Cut most species of flatworms in half, and you end up with two worms.

A new study launched aboard SpaceX's fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the space station examines the reparative processes of flatworms in microgravity.

«Additionally, the field study indicated that the diversity of these predators was a better predictor of flatworm infections than nutrients, frog immunity or the diversity and abundance of hosts.»

The researchers launched a set of flatworms into space via SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service Mission 5 on Jan. 10, 2015.

Specimens of the flatworm from various territories were identified by their characteristic appearance, a histological study and molecular analysis of the gene Cytochrome Oxidase Type I (which is often used to characterize animals).

At least in the case of flatworms,» summarizes Rink.

An accidental discovery of a flatworm's color - changing ability could help develop treatments for porphyria, a disease that causes pain and light sensitivity in humans.

Scientists at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, have created a rather odd identity crisis for a handful of flatworms in their lab, the International Business Times reports.

Together with other molecules called ommochromes, the porphyrins give rise to the normal color of this flatworm.

For example, how can the same appendages — and the same sequences of genetic code — that make a lobster's claws also make the mouthparts of a moth, the raptorial front legs of a praying mantis and the eye of a flatworm?

Sponsorship Officer and Website Coordinator: Peter Olson Location: United Kingdom Institute: Natural History Museum, London Research Interests: Development, genomics and comparative biology of flatworms; understanding the evolution of parasitism and Neglected Tropical Diseases through investigations of parasites in the context of their natural animal affinities.

Some of the marine life seen during the dive included: Banded Sea Snake, Day Octopus, Hawksbill Turtle and smaller creatures, like the Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse, nudibranchs, five different kinds of flatworms, headshield slug, Hairy Shrimp and even a nocturnal Epaulette Shark.

Using epigenetics triggers that change how the flatworms» DNA is expressed (rather than changing the DNA sequence itself) the group created a worm that has the body of one species of flatworm and the head and brain of another.