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2 unusual facts about slug


Cyanea longiflora

Slugs and rats damage similar species and may threaten this one.

Slug's Saloon

By the late 1960s the club had grown a vibrant scene in its out-of-the-way location, with performances from prominent jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman (among many others), and audiences including a number of painters, ranging from Larry Rivers to Bob Thompson and Salvador Dalí.


Alderia willowi

The slug was discovered by a team led by Patrick Krug of California State University, Los Angeles.

Antipredator adaptation

Many species of slug caterpillars, Limacodidae, have numerous protuberances and stinging spines along their dorsal surfaces.

B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls

November 16, 2009: B.A.D. Girls appeared in the video for "Felt Chewed Up" by Slug and Murs on the album "Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez".

Bryostatin

It was able to increase the duration of memory retention of the marine slug Hermissenda crassicornis by over 500%.

Carabus nemoralis

Carabus nemoralis is a beneficial predator as it eats the agricultural pest Deroceras reticulatum/gray garden/milky slug, in its young stage and also its eggs.

Clean URL

It is common practice to make the slug all lowercase, accented characters are usually replaced by letters from the English alphabet, punctuation marks are generally removed, and long page titles may also be truncated to keep the final URL to a reasonable length.

Coghlan Island

Coghlan Island was noted as the northernmost location of specimens of Triopha catalinae, a type of sea slug.

Common slug snake

The common slug snake (Pareas monticola) is a species of snake found in Northeast India (Sikkim, Assam, Darjeeling; Arunachal Pradesh (Mokto - Tawang district)), Vietnam, and Southwest China (Tibet, Yunnan).

Countershading

Similarly in the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus, the reverse countershading is associated with inverted habits.

Cyanea dunbariae

Threats to the species include its low numbers and limited gene pool, degradation of its habitat by axis deer, and feral pigs, damage to plants by slugs, rats, and birds, and competition by exotic plants such as climbing dayflower (Commelina diffusa), air plant (Kalanchoe pinnata), and castor bean (Ricinus communis).

Daron Joffe

Joffe, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, praised the SLUG concept of bringing urban youth to a farm setting.

Disjunct distribution

Examples of animal species with a Lusitanian distribution are: the Kerry slug Geomalacus maculosus and the Pyrenean glass snail Semilimax pyrenaicus.

Elysia timida

It feeds on the algae Acetabularia acetabulum (from which it keeps the chloroplasts, that are able to continue photosynthesis in the slug's tissues) and Padina pavonia.

Epithelial–mesenchymal transition

SNAI1/Snail 1, SNAI2/Snail 2 (also known as Slug), ZEB1, ZEB2, E47 and KLF8 (Kruppel-like factor 8) can bind to E-cadherin promoter and repress its transcription, whereas factors such as Twist, Goosecoid, E2.2 (also known as TCF4), homeobox protein SIX1 and FOXC2 (fork-head box protein C2) repress E-cadherin indirectly.

Ghost slug

A year later, another slug was found by a gardener near Cardiff, Wales, where it was brought to the attention of the National Museum Wales.

Glypha III

In 1996, cartoonist Bill Amend created Slug-Man: The Video Game, a modded version based on his comic strip FoxTrot (and credited to FoxTrot character Jason).

Ismail Sillakh

Ismayl Sillakh had been a world-ranked amateur for two years going into the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago where he lost a close and spirited slug-fest to the more mature Christopher Downs.

L. flavus

Limax flavus, the yellow slug, an air-breathing land slug species

L. maximus

Limax maximus, the great grey slug or leopard slug, one of the largest kinds of keeled air-breathing land slug in the world native to Europe

M. leonina

Melibe leonina, the hooded nudibranch or the lion nudibranch, a predatory sea slug species

M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System

These would provide soldiers with additional capabilities, such as: door breaching using special slugs, very short-range increased lethality using 00 buckshot, and less-lethal capabilities using teargas shells, rubber slugs, rubber pellets, or other non-lethal rounds.

Pareas carinatus

The keeled slug-eating snake, Pareas carinatus, is a species of snake in the Colubridae family.

PAX7

Pax-7 plays a role in neural crest development and gastrulation, and it is an important factor in the expression of neural crest markers such as Slug, Sox9, Sox10 and HNK-1.

Riccardoella limacum

The slug mite was first identified in 1710 by entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.

Tandonia nigra

This slug species is endemic to north Italy and south Switzerland: Monte Generoso and Baraghetto peaks, east and west slopes, between Lake Como and Lugano lake.

Trap crop

Chervil is used by gardeners to protect vegetable plants from slugs.

William Harper Pease

One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: Philinopsis Pease, 1860


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