Insights from an integrated view of the biology of apple snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

KA Hayes, RL Burks, A Castro-Vazquez, PC Darby… - Malacologia, 2015 - BioOne
Apple snails (Ampullariidae) are among the largest and most ecologically important
freshwater snails. The introduction of multiple species has reinvigorated the field and …

Invertebrate oogenesis–a review and synthesis: comparative ovarian morphology, accessory cell function and the origins of yolk precursors

KJ Eckelbarger, AN Hodgson - Invertebrate Reproduction & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Oogenesis is a fundamental biological process observed in most animals. Animals employ
many different mechanisms to make their eggs and oogenesis cannot be completed without …

Control of invasive apple snails and their use as pollutant ecotoxic indicators: A review

F Panda, SG Pati, A Bal, K Das, L Samanta… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Apple snails are one of the most survived fresh water invasive species that causes massive
economic loss to vegetations, especially to the rice fields. They survive against many …

Novel animal defenses against predation: a snail egg neurotoxin combining lectin and pore-forming chains that resembles plant defense and bacteria attack toxins

MS Dreon, MV Frassa, M Ceolín, S Ituarte, JW Qiu… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Although most eggs are intensely predated, the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail
Pomacea canaliculata have only one reported predator due to unparalleled biochemical …

The role of the proteinase inhibitor ovorubin in apple snail eggs resembles plant embryo defense against predation

MS Dreon, S Ituarte, H Heras - PLoS One, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated.
Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea …

Maternal immune transfer in mollusc

L Wang, F Yue, X Song, L Song - Developmental & Comparative …, 2015 - Elsevier
Maternal immunity refers to the immunity transferred from mother to offspring via egg,
playing an important role in protecting the offspring at early life stages and contributing a …

Egg carotenoproteins in neotropical Ampullariidae (Gastropoda: arquitaenioglossa)

H Heras, MS Dreon, S Ituarte, RJ Pollero - Comparative Biochemistry and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Carotenoid-binding proteins are commonly found in invertebrates. Their carotenoids form
non-covalent complexes with proteins giving tissues a variety of colors. In molluscs they …

First proteome of the egg perivitelline fluid of a freshwater gastropod with aerial oviposition

J Sun, H Zhang, H Wang, H Heras… - Journal of Proteome …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Pomacea canaliculata is a freshwater snail that deposits eggs on solid substrates above the
water surface. Previous studies have emphasized the nutritional and protective functions of …

The eggs of the apple snail Pomacea maculata are defended by indigestible polysaccharides and toxic proteins

ML Giglio, S Ituarte, MY Pasquevich… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The freshwater snails Pomacea Perry, 1810 lay conspicuous aerial egg clutches that are
ignored by most predators. Egg biochemical defenses in the apple snail Pomacea …

First egg protein with a neurotoxic effect on mice

H Heras, MV Frassa, PE Fernandez, CM Galosi… - Toxicon, 2008 - Elsevier
While many invertebrates sequester toxic compounds to endow eggs with chemical
defences, here we show, for the first time to our knowledge, the identification of a neurotoxin …