Sentences with phrase «said sea slugs»

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, even though humans and sea slugs are separated by more than 530 million years of evolution, «Aplysia is similar to humans, more so than humans are with flies and worms,» Kandel says.

University of Queensland Visual Ecology Lab member Dr Karen Cheney, of the School of Biological Sciences, said researchers examined sea slugs, or nudibranchs, which had bright colour patterns to warn predators they contained toxic defences.

Gleason was hesitant to speculate on the unusual pairing: she says that sea slug mating habits are not fully understood.

Grosberg had also seen a sea slug every couple of years while another colleague said he, too, had seen only one or two of them.

Wolynes said many neurobiologists have followed up on that pioneering work with sea slugs.

Professor Garson said a good analogy for sea slugs, because of their bright colours, was the «butterflies of the ocean.»

She said while fish recognised visual signals such as bright colours, the presence of the same toxic compound in the closely related sea slugs suggested that something else was at play.

«One interesting study aspect is the potency of the compound which five different sea slug species chose to store,» Professor Garson said.

The largest mini-brains-in-a-dish are only 4 millimeters across — roughly the size of a sea slug or jellyfish brain — and, Minnesota's O'Brien said, «a tiny, tiny fraction of the human brain.

«The fragile, intricately — detailed, and colorful sea creatures on view — including anemones, octopi, sea stars, and even sea slugs — will illustrate the Blaschkas» still - unmatched expertise with glass as a medium, while also transporting audiences to a hidden world beneath the sea more than 100 years ago,» says Alexandra Ruggiero, the exhibition's co-curator and CMoG curatorial assistant.