Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
YouTube videos: Planaria eating worm segment, Planarian; Schmidtea mediterranea, facts, anatomy, image at GeoChemBio.com; Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado's Seminar: Regeneration in Planarians; Link to an article discussing some work on planarian immortality; A user-friendly visualization tool and database of planarian regeneration experiments
Planaria is a genus of planarians in the family Planariidae. Due to its excellent ability to regenerate, species of Planaria has also been used as model organisms in regeneration studies. [ 1 ] When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual. [ 2 ]
Kuhli loaches can have nearly a 10-year lifespan, sometimes reaching as far as 14 years in captivity, making them great aquarium fish. [3] [18] In an aquarium environment, especially if the gravel is suitably finely grained, Pangio species can burrow into the bottom and there remain unseen for long periods of time, emerging to eat during the ...
Planaria torva is a species of planarian in the family Planariidae. [1] When an individual is cut into pieces, each piece has the ability to regenerate into a fully formed individual. [ 2 ]
The complete mitogenome of Caenoplana coerulea is 18,621 bp in length. [7] Its main characteristic is a cytochrome c oxidase subunit 2 gene of unusual length, with a cox2 encoded protein 505 aa in length (compared to about 250 aa in other geoplanids); this characteristic of a very long cox2 is also found in other members of the subfamily Rhynchodeminae, to which Caenoplana coerulea belongs.
The larvae are released into the environment from which the definitive hosts (humans and other mammals) acquire the infection. In some species another intermediate host is required, generally a cyprinid fish, and the definitive hosts are infected from eating infected fish. Hence, these species are food-borne parasites.
A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton. [1] [2] Planktivorous organisms encompass a range of some of the planet's smallest to largest multicellular animals in both the present day and in the past billion years; basking sharks and copepods are just two examples of giant and microscopic organisms that feed upon plankton.
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms. [2]These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive properties of their mucus. [3]