Antibiotics prevent snails from forming new memories by disrupting their gut microbiome—the community of beneficial bacteria found in their guts. The new research, led by the University of East ...

Shutterstock From the slow-moving snail heading down the path in your yard to the Giant African Land Snails that people keep ...

The shape of a snail’s teeth can be used to identify its diet. Many aquatic snails have pointed, triangular teeth for scraping algae off rock surfaces. Over time, the teeth and the underlying membrane ...

Meanwhile, along the edges of the floating weeds, water snails harboring the deadly schistosomiasis parasite found a new place to breed. James Ogwang decided to spoil the party. Ogwang: ...

If snails are munching on your plants, then do not worry, as there is a simple yet effective way to repel these pesky ...

A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

Found in large streams with clean, cold and fast-moving water, the ashy pebblesnail and shortface lanx have disappeared from many rivers, including the Willamette, Wenatchee, Clark Fork, Spokane, ...

The freshwater snail Helisoma trivolvis (above) has been our focal species for research on inducible defenses. In the presence of water bugs (left), snails allocate resources to shell coiling to avoid ...

While substantial advances have been made in the control of schistosomiasis, the diversity and complexity of Schistosoma species and their specific fresh-water snail hosts warrants fundamental ...

The complex life cycle of Schistosoma also involves an intermediate freshwater snail host and two larval stages. Humans can be infected if they enter water that contains schistosomes, but communities ...