(1) As a consequence of this change, it appears prudent to reassess the role of the malacologist and malacology and identify the future direction to be taken by the discipline.
Malacology
Definition:
(n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examples of how the new biotechnology may resolve present and future problems in applied malacology are presented.
(2) As a consequence of this change, it appears prudent to reassess the role of the malacologist and malacology and identify the future direction to be taken by the discipline.
(3) The flooding of the mangrove (in september), permits a yearly renewal of the malacological populations.
(4) Malacological surveys showed Biophalaria glabrata naturally infected with Schistosoma mansoni in a country club near Passos.
(5) Biologists who published the paper naming the new species did so in the most recent issue of Basteria , the journal of the Netherlands Malacological Society.
(6) Malacological and parasitological studies were carried out in the urinary schistosomiasis focus uncovered to Loulombo (Pool region).
(7) One thousand nine hundred and sixty nine Biomphalaria pfeifferi were collected during several malacological surveys carried out from February 1989 to December 1989 at three observation points.
(8) Professor Babor's main interest was focused on malacology and he achieved international reputation in this field of zoology.
(9) Malacological surveys in the gutters, creeks, streams and stagnant waterbodies within the city showed the presence of Lymnaea natalensis, Bulinus forskalii, Pila ovata, Melanoides tuberculata, Physa sp., Lanistes ovum and Segmentorbis sp.
(10) At the end of the two-year control programme, the following activities will be carried out to determine the degree of intervention achieved; (a) human data: calculation of prevalence rates, incidence rates, and changes in the intensity of infection based on quantitative egg counts; (b) malacological data: changes in the number and extent of snail foci; snail density, and snail infection rates; (c) reservoir hosts: changes in the prevalence rates among domestic and wild animals.
(11) For two years fortnightly malacological samplings were carried out to collect Lymnaea truncatula (Mollusca; Basommatophora) at five points in the upper and middle Porma river basin, León, Spain.
(12) Malacological findings of the preliminary phase indicated that the snails were distributed in the littoral zone of the lake, and that this distribution was correlated with the presence of vegetation, especially Ceratophyllum.
(13) Baseline data on human, malacological and animal reservoir hosts are being collected and control operations are anticipated to commence in July 1975.
(14) Ten species of freshwater molluscs were found in a malacological survey in the Sirikit reservoir in 1985.
(15) A malacological survey has been carried in order to study, the density of Biomphalaria pfeifferi the intermediate hosts, their distribution and rate of infection, and to identify the transmission sites.
(16) However, the malacological survey in the Bhumibol Reservoir revealed the existence of colonies of edible snails, Filopaludina (Filopaludina) doliaris, F. (F.) filosa and F. (Siamopaludina) martensi martensi along the shoreline of the reservoir.
(17) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
(18) Malacological surveys on the abundance of molluscan fauna were carried out in freshwater habitats at the 2 main rivers of southeastern Nigeria: River Niger and Cross River basins.
(19) Malacological surveys showed two potential vectors, Bulinus (Physopsis) globosus and B.
(20) Malacological investigations showed a decrease in the snail population in the project area.