Sentences with phrase «tiny worms»

It contains microscopic bacteria and fungi, as well as tiny worms called nematodes and other invertebrates.

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.

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.

By pooling and analysing previously published data with some of his own, he found that tiny worms survive in areas of the sea floor where oxygen levels are incredibly low — less than 0.5 % of average global sea - surface concentrations.

Researchers have now discovered why: The leaves are a snare for tiny worms that the plant absorbs and eats.

Lee is holding a petri dish containing tiny worms (nematodes) used to test potential antibiotics.

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.

It looks like a very tiny worm.

Ascarid (roundworm) eggs if ingested can cause a disease called «visceral larval migrans» where tiny worm larvae migrate through the human host's intestinal wall and into the body tissues.

A sneaky, repulsive, tiny worm crawls through its corridors, aisles, and rooms.

Experiments with mice, fruit flies, yeast cells, and tiny worms called nematodes, or roundworms, have pointed to environmental modifications that can extend life span dramatically.

Sometimes your spices may look like they're infested with tiny worms.

Of the 5,000 best - known human genes, 75 % have matches in the worm (see «A Tiny Worm Challenges Evolution»).

In the tiny worm C. elegans, the researchers have taken advantage of the simple way the worm can sense alkalinity, or high pH, in its environment.

«Avoiding environmental hazards: Lessons from a tiny worm.»

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.

«These results also confirm that, because C. elegans uses the prostaglandin system to regulate reproductive events, the tiny worm is a suitable model system for identifying related biological processes that may control fertility and reproduction in higher organisms.»

New research in a tiny worm called C. elegans, which is commonly used in genetic studies, suggests that it may be possible for environmental stress to trigger small RNA molecules that reduce the activity of specific genes.

Researchers are working to uncover exactly how these tiny worms trick plant root cells into feeding them for life.

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.

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

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.

The tiny worm intrigues scientists because it can regenerate almost its whole body following an injury.

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.

Most recently, researchers essentially created a magnetic remote control that alters cell function and changes the behavior of a tiny worm.

Because their nervous system is so well - mapped, these tiny worms offer clues about how neurons send and receive information in other organisms as well, including humans.

To a tiny worm called a nematode, slugs may be the ultimate sexy ride: moist, secure, and maybe even pre-loaded with snacks.

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.

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.

The tiny worms, which normally live in rotting fruit, are masters at resisting and pumping out foreign compounds.

After the tiny worm - like larvae hatch from eggs embedded into the flesh of rotting...

A team from the Salk Institute has discovered that a tiny worm — known as Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)-- exhibits fear and anxiety behaviors similarly to humans.

Microscopic examination shows that this tiny worm actually has teeth!

These tiny worm - like larvae alsodevelop in the environment inconspiculously, feeding on organic matter, shedded skin scales, and blood protien rich adult flea feces.

Heartworms mature from these tiny worms to the adult stage in about six months and can live up to seven years in the host if left untreated.

When the carrier mosquito then bites a second animal, the tiny worms make their way into a new host through the bite wound and then into the animal's cardiovascular system.

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.

When a mosquito bites an infected animal, tiny worms called microfilaria are ingested by the mosquito.