The second wave of earthworm invasions in North America: biology, environmental impacts, management and control of invasive jumping worms

CH Chang, MLC Bartz, G Brown, MA Callaham… - Biological …, 2021 - Springer
The invasion of jumping worms, a small group of pheretimoid earthworm species from Asia,
has increasingly become an ecological, environmental and conservation issue in forest …

Tetrodotoxin in marine bivalves and edible gastropods: A mini-review

L Biessy, MJ Boundy, KF Smith, DT Harwood, I Hawes… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin responsible for countless human intoxications and
deaths around the world. The distribution of TTX and its analogues is diverse and the toxin …

[图书][B] Experimental design and data analysis for biologists

GP Quinn, MJ Keough - 2002 - books.google.com
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

The skin microbiome facilitates adaptive tetrodotoxin production in poisonous newts

PM Vaelli, KR Theis, JE Williams, LA O'Connell… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa) use tetrodotoxin (TTX) to block voltage-gated
sodium (Nav) channels as a chemical defense against predation. Interestingly, newts exhibit …

An overview of the anatomical distribution of tetrodotoxin in animals

DI Melnikova, TY Magarlamov - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent paralytic sodium channel blocker, is an intriguing marine toxin.
Widely distributed in nature, TTX has attracted attention in various scientific fields, from …

The chemistry and biology of guanidine natural products

RGS Berlinck, S Romminger - Natural Product Reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2012 to 2014. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 1382 The present
review discusses the isolation, structure determination, synthesis, biosynthesis and …

The ecology of freshwater planarians

M Vila-Farré, JC Rink - Planarian regeneration: Methods and protocols, 2018 - Springer
Planarians are on the rise as a model system for regeneration and stem cell dynamics.
Almost in parallel the interest in planarian field biology has declined. Besides representing …

Guanidinium toxins and their interactions with voltage-gated sodium ion channels

LM Durán-Riveroll, AD Cembella - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Guanidinium toxins, such as saxitoxin (STX), tetrodotoxin (TTX) and their analogs, are
naturally occurring alkaloids with divergent evolutionary origins and biogeographical …

Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French …

JL Justine, L Winsor, D Gey, P Gros, J Thévenot - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Background Species of the genera Bipalium and Diversibipalium, or bipaliines, are giants
among land planarians (family Geoplanidae), reaching length of 1 m; they are also easily …

The planocerid flatworm is a main supplier of toxin to tetrodotoxin-bearing fish juveniles

S Itoi, T Sato, M Takei, R Yamada, R Ogata, H Oyama… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin, is found in various phylogenetically diverse taxa. In
marine environments, the pufferfish is at the top of the food chain among TTX-bearing …