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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

snail name commonly used for a gastropod mollusk with a shell. Included in the thousands of species are terrestrial, freshwater, and marine forms. Some eat both plant and animal matter; others eat only one type of food. Respiration is carried on by gills in the aquatic species; terrestrial forms have a pulmonary sac, or lung, in the mantle cavity. A few terrestrial species have returned to the sea, and consequently must rise to the surface to breathe. Eyes are borne on stalks or tentacles. Many snails, including all land snails, are hermaphroditic, but the majority of the marine species... Read more

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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition snail The small snail eaten in Europe is Helix pomatia ; the giant African snail (which weighs several hundred grams) is Achatima fulica . Read more

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World Encyclopedia snail Terrestrial, marine or freshwater gastropod mollusc. It has a large fleshy foot, antennae on its head, and a coiled protective...air-breathing lung (terrestrial species), and has a radula – a rasping organ in its mouth. Some species, such as the Roman snail (Helix pomatia), are edible. Length: to 35cm ... Read more

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	Californian's Snails Devour Orange-Grove Pests without Poisons.(Originated from North County Times, Escondido, Calif.) Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 12/26/1996; ; 595 words ; SAN MARCOS, Calif.--Dec. 25--It's a snail-eat-snail world in Mary Borevitz's 7.5 acre orange grove. Thousands of...gastropods have been so successful in controlling the brown-snail population that Borevitz started her own mail order snail business... Read more
	At UNM, Genetic Decoding Begins at a Snail's Pace Researchers work to understand a parasite that can kill humans Newspaper article from: Albuquerque Journal; 9/17/2006; ; 566 words ; It's like a jungle in the snail room in the University of New Mexico's...seriously ill because of variants of the snail-borne parasite, according to Adema, and 280,000 die annually. Which is why the snail science going on in the University of... Read more
	Analysis: Snail in Hawaii discovered to eat snails Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/22/2005; ; 553 words ; ...Things Considered (NPR) 07-22-2005 Analysis: Snail in Hawaii discovered to eat snails Host...they'd seen on the island of Maui, empty snail shells wrapped in what looked like silk...once they've, I think, decided there's a snail there, they start to vigorously spin silk... Read more
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	Mutations in Snail Family Genes Enhance Craniosynostosis of Twist1 Haplo-insufficient Mice: Implications for Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome Magazine article from: Genetics; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Twist gene interact with mutations in the Snail gene. We show that the mouse Twist1 mutation...interactions between genes of the Twist and Snail families have been conserved during evolution...Twist gene interact with mutations in the Snail gene, which encodes a zinc-finger transcriptional... Read more
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