What's the difference between flatworm and turbellarian?

Flatworm


Definition:

  • (n.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New Guinea flatworms measure about 5cm long by 5mm wide.
  • (2) Rice fields that have abundant mosquito populations lack flatworms.
  • (3) Platydemus manokwari has a distant cousin, the New Zealand flatworm ( Arthurdendyus triangulatus ), which has triggered an invasive-species scare in western Europe.
  • (4) Three topics are dealt with in some detail: (1) the behavior of the insect vectors of such diseases as malaria and trypanosomiasis; (2) the intermediate hosts of helminths whose behavior is affected in such a way as to make them more susceptible to predation by the definitive host in the life cycle; and (3) the behavior and fecundity of molluscs infected with asexually reproducing parasitic flatworms.
  • (5) tetrodotoxin distribution in various tissues of the flatworm Planocera multitentaculata was examined.
  • (6) It was suggested from these findings that flatworms possess tetrodotoxin as a defense or alarm substance against predators.
  • (7) On the Mekong, Carlo noted rocks that were the natural habitat of tiny snails acting as intermediate hosts of the flatworm.
  • (8) The schistosome homeodomain sequences are more similar to the higher animals sequences in their respective classes than they are to each other, indicating that the establishment of these three distinctive classes is at least as ancient as the flatworms.
  • (9) "It is therefore important to consider the implementation of eradication and control of this flatworm."
  • (10) Although the flatworms and nemertean worms possess a pseudocoelom, a progressive differentiation of several leukocytic types occurred.
  • (11) The nature of sugar transport in schistosomes and other flatworms is similar to that in vertebrates.
  • (12) The warning is being sounded over a voracious species called the New Guinea flatworm.
  • (13) Carlo's work led to innovative approaches in the control of Schistosoma mekongi, a parasitic flatworm causing intestinal schistosomiasis, transmitted only on the river Mekong.
  • (14) These antisera give positive IR in more advanced flatworm species, indicating a later convergent evolution of vertebrate-like peptides within the phylum Platyhelminthes.
  • (15) The manner in which the flatworm, Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda), regulates the transport of glucose and Na+ across the brush border was examined.
  • (16) Intestinal protozoa, roundworms, and flatworms are considered with regard to pathogenic, potential and duration of infection.
  • (17) In flatworms, sensilla that penetrate the syncytial epidermis bear sensory processes derived from cilia.
  • (18) In this paper we report the discovery of a population in which such limb abnormalities appear to be caused by a parasitic flatworm (trematode) that uses amphibians as intermediate hosts.
  • (19) A variety of spontaneously active units was measured in the brain of the polyclad flatworm Freemania litoricola.
  • (20) A tetrodonic acid-like substance which was hardly distinguishable from authentic tetrodonic acid in thin-layer chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, etc., was successfully purified from the ribbon worm and flatworm by a method consisting mainly of Bio-Gel P-2 column chromatography.

Turbellarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This means that the initial forms belonged to advanced turbellarians rather than to primitive ones.
  • (2) The occurrence and distribution of twelve dehydrogenases have been studied histochemically in two species of rhabdocoel turbellarians entosymbiotic in marine bivalves.
  • (3) An ultrastructural investigation of oogenesis has been carried out on the acoel turbellarian Convoluta psammophyla.
  • (4) Differences between the protonephridia of Monocelis and other 'turbellarians' and the Neodermata are discussed.
  • (5) Turbellarians of the order Acoela, in particular, have a characteristic pattern of axonemal filament termination in the distal tips of their cilia and a characteristic ciliary rootlet system that is not seen in other turbellarian orders nor in other metazoans.
  • (6) The 11 species represent all the major turbellarian and nemertean taxa, and illustrate most of the various life styles found in these animals.
  • (7) A neuropeptide exhibiting vertebrate pancreatic polypeptide immunoreactivity has been isolated and sequenced from extracts of the terrestrial turbellarian, Artioposthia triangulata.
  • (8) In the epidermis of turbellarians septate junctions of the pleated sheet type have been demonstrated in conventional thin sections and freeze fractured preparations.
  • (9) In contrast, a turbellarian, Dugesia tigrina contained only a single short actin message size class approximately 1 400 bases in length.
  • (10) However, it has no influence on the vitality of the coelomocytes of Lumbricus terrestris and other lumbricides, nor on the hemocytes of the snail Helix pomatia, the mussels Anodonta cygnea and Unio tumidus, free cells of the turbellarian Euplanaria sp.
  • (11) Studies have been made on the activity and properties of malate and lactate dehydrogenases from the cattle rumen trematodes Eurytrema pancreaticum, Calicophoron ijimai and the turbellarian Phagocata sibirica which has a common free-living ancestor with the trematodes.
  • (12) The Turbellarian Monocelis fusca Oersted is abundant in the lagoon of Ghar-el-Melh.

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