Heat shock proteins (HSPs) encompass both extrinsic chaperones and stress proteins.
These proteins, with molecular weights ranging from 14 to 120 kDa, are conserved across …

Terrestrial gastropods do not only inhabit humid and cool environments but also habitat in
which hot and dry conditions prevail. Snail species that are able to cope with such climatic …

Land snails occupy a variety of habitats, with differing temperature and humidity regimes
and exhibit a wide span of adaptations, to withstand abiotic condition changes. The present …

In terrestrial snails, thermal selection acts on shell coloration. However, the biological
relevance of small differences in the intensity of shell pigmentation and the associated …

Cutaneous evaporative water loss (CEWL) makes up a significant portion of total
evaporative water loss in many terrestrial vertebrates. CEWL changes on evolutionary and …

Temperature, a major abiotic environmental factor, regulates various physiological functions
in land snails and therefore determines their biogeographical distribution. Thus, species with …

Land snails are exposed to conditions of high ambient temperature and low humidity, and
their survival depends on a suite of morphological, behavioral, physiological, and molecular …

Rabbit production in Kenya offers great opportunity for food security among households as a
cheap alternative source of animal protein and as a source of income. Rabbits have …

This paper reports on the subsurface burrowing of the desert-dwelling land snail
Helminthoglypta greggi in the western Mohave Desert. By excavating into the soil layer, we …

Most land snails in order to ensure tlieir survival under adverse environmental conditions
interrupt tlieir activity entering a state of dormancy. The transition from activity to dormancy is …