Sentences with phrase «studying flatworms»

Levin is now studying flatworms as obsessively as tadpoles.

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«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.»

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

The results obtained in this first flatworm study between Kentucky Space and Tufts University will become the basis for their next phase of research in regenerative medicine.

Flatworms with amputated heads or tails are contained inside sealed test tubes for this study.

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.

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be published June 13 in Regeneration.

The flatworm is ideal for studying stem cells, says lead author Kaja Wasik, who conducted the work as a PhD student in Hannon's lab along with co-lead author James Gurtowski from Schatz's lab.

The principle behind the study, that clones avoid ageing by regulating telomeres, has also been previously studied by other researchers in flatworms.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm native to southern Europe and Tunisia, turns from brown to white when exposed to sunlight for 24 or more hours, as scientists discovered when they were studying regeneration in the species.

The flatworms gain their pigment back after a few days, and were otherwise unaffected, according to a study published this week in the journal eLife.

Here, Stubenhaus et al. studied how a flatworm called Schmidtea mediterranea makes porphyrins.

Stubenhaus et al. propose that flatworms are useful models in which to study the molecular processes that are responsible for porphyrias in humans.

Unlike humans, planarian flatworms have the remarkable ability to regrow any missing body part, making them an ideal model with which to study the molecular basis of regeneration.

Newmark, currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, studies a freshwater flatworm called a planarian, a remarkable creature capable of regenerating its entire body from scratch.

Our lab studies the astonishing regenerative abilities of planarian flatworms.

Insights gained from our basic research on planarian biology have also led us to study parasitic flatworms, like schistosomes and tapeworms.