Sentences with phrase «of tiny worms»

Sarah Gabbott, Professor of Palaeobiology from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, said: «When we first saw the large worm curled around, almost hugging, lots of tiny worms, we suspected that we had uncovered an adult with offspring.

To fill in more blanks, Armand M. Leroi studied the metabolic profiles of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans to see if they could find patterns related to life expectancy.

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Also look for tiny holes in the stem, which is a sign of worms.

In findings published today in the journal Cell, postdoctoral fellow Hongyun Tang and Professor Min Han, both of CU Boulder's Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, detail how fat levels in a tiny soil - dwelling roundworm (C. elegans) can tip the balance between whether the worm makes eggs or sperm.

A team of investigators from the Salk Institute uncovered new clues about the mechanisms of fear and anxiety through an unlikely creature: the tiny nematode worm.

The secret of the worm's success was its tiny size.

Some soybean varieties have resistance to the tiny parasitic worms through conventional breeding of naturally occurring resistance genes, but the current level of resistance is becoming less reliable.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

Within a month, Sally had a dish of warm water brimming with hundreds of helminths — tiny worm - like parasites growing inside eggs from her friend's faeces.

Spawned when the researchers mixed two elements in a thin film and let it cool, the worms might one day serve to mass - produce chip patterns so tiny that they would alter the quantum behavior of the electrons they confine.

The Osedax story grew even stranger when researchers found that the large female worms contained harems of tiny dwarf males.

In matters of the fundamental molecular biology of aging, we mammals are not so different from tiny C. elegans worms.

Elegant, dainty, and deadly, it is the most common of all blood - sucking arthropods and the most important insect carrier of human disease, transmitting not only malaria but also yellow fever, dengue, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and the tiny worms that cause elephantiasis.

To understand which proteins help meiosis run smoothly, the researchers from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Tohoku University in Japan, and Imperial College in London, used a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans to look into the role of PP4.

One was from a patient who said a colonoscopy had turned up a small herd of tiny white worms in his gut.

«Calcium dynamics regulating the timing of decision - making in C. elegans: A tiny worm makes a decision by calculating mathematical integration.»

How does an egg, a tiny squishy blob of a cell, grow into a fully formed organism — a sinuous worm, a delicate fly, a perfect human baby?

Their chosen topic of conversation would deprive many people of an appetite, but the scientist and his guest shared an intellectual hunger for a stomach - churning subject: gut worms — specifically, tiny worm - like parasitic organisms called helminths that live nestled in the gastrointestinal tracts of their hosts.

Named for its discovery near the Italian beach town of Lignano Sabbiadoro, this tiny worm can regenerate almost its whole body following an injury, and researchers have long been trying to understand how it's able to pull off this trick.

Tiny bits of plastic trash could spell big trouble for marine life, starting with the worms, say a team of researchers from Plymouth University and the University of Exeter who report their evidence in a pair of studies in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on December 2.

Henk Vlug and Peter Smits, entomologists at the Research Institute for Plant Protection in Wageningen, in the Netherlands, are trying to kill the bugs with tiny worms which harbour bacteria of the genus Xenorhabdus in their guts.

A tiny worm called Steinernema can fling itself nearly ten times its own length and seven times its height in pursuit of a new host.

Tomopteris, a tiny marine worm, erupts into a shower of angry sparks and unloads its eggs into the water before rapidly undulating away.

In a new study published Friday in the journal Science, a team of researchers has shown that such «epigenetic» memories can be passed down for 14 generations in a tiny nematode worm species called Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworms).

In a new study published Friday in the journal Science, a team of researchers has shown that such «epigenetic» memories can be passed down for 14 generations in a tiny nematode worm species called Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm).

After receiving her Ph.D. in 1987, Professor Bargmann transferred to the laboratory of H. Robert Horvitz, at MIT, where she became acquainted with the tiny worm C. elegans.

One such group, the siphonostomes, are tiny flea - like copepods who live directly on the tubes of the giant worms.

That could include some bizarre adaptations, including «sponges that are sticky and catch prey instead of filtering water; small bivalves / clams having changed to suck in tiny shrimps instead of filtering; polychaete worms feeding on others and detritus - eating sea cucumbers.»

But rather than people, she is describing the movements of tiny transparent worms as they wriggle about in laboratory dishes at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she holds the position of Torsten N. Wiesel Professor.

Kennedy is interested in understanding why reduced gene expression in ribosomes enhances longevity in yeast and worms — ribosomes are tiny organelles that occur within the cell and are involved in the production of proteins.

When he mentioned that he'd recently eaten sushi, his doctors suspected anisakiasis — a parasitic disease caused by tiny worms, called nematodes, that attach to the wall of the stomach, esophagus, or intestine.

The first 2 years I got a handful of tiny peaches full of worms.

Researchers from Harvard gave SOD to tiny nematode worms and they lived between 50 % and 100 % longer than normal, according to research published in Science journal.6 In another study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers genetically engineered fruit flies to have double the amount of SOD, and the fruit flies lived twice as long.7, 8»

Giving a tiny inspirational nod to the great dynamic duo Banjo - Kazooie, a wicked, green - skinned witch kidnaps a cluster of chicks with nefarious intent and it's up to their fowl friend and his wiggly worm companion to work together and save the day.

If you have strong thread and a tiny hook, you only need a stick and a worm to have some chance of catching something.

-- or maybe not like worms but like a million little podules, each a tiny city of cancer, each with an unruly, sprawling, environmentally careless citizenry with no zoning laws whatsoever.

Although the tiny segments of a tapeworms can move individually they are just small parts of the entire worms body.

In the case of members of the roundworm family, the ascarid worms, the parasitic worm is attached to the host's intestine by its tiny teeth and / or suckers.

Tapeworms are a common problem in dogs they are flat white worms made up of tiny segments.

A nematode, which is a tiny worm, is applied via lawn sprayer, and, within 24 hours, brings about a 90 % decrease in the number of flea larvae.

Two worms in a tiny dog take up a lot more of the pulmonary artery volume than ten worms in a huge dog.

Infected mosquitoes transmit a tiny parasite (Dirofilaria immitis) that is actually the larval stage of a worm.

It is caused by a blood parasite carried by a tiny fluke (worm) inside the meat of the salmon.

Pet owners sometimes give accounts of seeing tiny black worms or maggots in their homes.

These tiny white worms that resemble grains of rice are tapeworms (Dipylidium caninum).

In the case of members of the roundworm family (the «ascarid» worms), the parasitic worm is attached to the host's intestine by its tiny teeth and / or suckers.

... A week of diving in Lembeh wouldn't be complete without seeing Hairy Frogfish, Mimic Octopus, Wunderpus, all four types of Pygmy Seahorse, Tiger Shrimp, Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Coconut Octopus, tiny Painted Frogfish, Clown Frogfish, Lembeh Sea Dragons, plus extra awesome night dives with Bobbit Worms, Starry Night Octopus and Bobtail Squid.

Diet consists of small crustaceans, including tiny mysid shrimp, as well as worms and other invertebrates.

Working up from tiny little raptors to giant birds and vicious amphibious lions through huge poisonous worm - things to full - on enormous dragons — all are confronted with your brilliantly varied selection of improbable weaponry.

While the brittle star's perks are notable, this is really a story about the mighty sea cucumber, who plays host to a whole tiny ecosystem of creatures, notes bioGraphic, «including clams that take up residence in cucumber throats, fish and crabs that colonize their anuses, and worms and snails that drink their bodily fluids.»