Nonetheless, some readers might enjoy
the related animal kingdom article I posted on my website ten years ago.
Not exact matches
This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the
animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and
related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.
The researchers will now focus on determining how widespread this hormone is in other
animal groups
related to the worms, such as snails or mussels, to get further insight into its role in the
animal kingdom.