Uricotelism in the Common Indian Apple-Snail, Pila globosa (Swainson)

Lal, M. B.; Saxena, B.B.L.

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“…Many ampullariids become dormant in response to drought and/or cold temperatures (d 'Orbigny, 1847;Lal & Saxena, 1952;Meenakshi, 1956Meenakshi, , 1964Oya et al, 1987;Yusa et al, 2006b;Seuffert et al, 2010). Although aestivation is most commonly thought of as a response to high temperatures, it is here defined as when dormancy is induced by lack of water caused by natural or anthropogenic lowering of the water below ground level (e.g., Lal & Saxena, 1952;Little, 1968;Watanabe et al, 2000).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Ampullariids can tolerate prolonged drying of their shallow freshwater habitats (Lal & Saxena, 1952;Meenakshi, 1956Meenakshi, , 1964Little, 1968;Wada & Yoshida, 2000;Yusa et al, 2006b), and dormancy seems to be a contingent event precipitated by the dry down of their habitats. Although some species switch to anaerobic respiration at some stage during dry-down events, the capacity for aerial gas exchange is particularly significant during such events, when the snails burrow in the mud (Meenakshi, 1956(Meenakshi, , 1964Burky et al, 1972;Thomas & Agard, 1992).…”

Section: Aestivationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although aestivation is most commonly thought of as a response to high temperatures, it is here defined as when dormancy is induced by lack of water caused by natural or anthropogenic lowering of the water below ground level (e.g., Lal & Saxena, 1952;Little, 1968;Watanabe et al, 2000). Defined as such, aestivation may occur in either winter or summer (e.g., d 'Orbigny, 1847;.…”

Section: Dormancymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The annual publication volume can reflect the development and level of attention provided to a particular field of study. In this study, a total of 1028 publications on ASs were retrieved from WOS between 1900 and 2021, with the first publication in 1952 Nature Letter [35]. Figure 2 shows that the number of annual publications on ASs is on an overall upward trend, with the highest number of publications (73) in 2018.…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Apple Snails (Ampullariidae)

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Apple snails (ASs), the freshwater snails of the family Ampullariidae, are widely spread in tropical and subtropical regions. Owing to their strong invasiveness and harmful effects on agricultural production and ecosystems, they have attracted considerable attention. However, less research has been conducted on the whole picture of the current research status and development trends in the ASs field. For this purpose, we conducted a bibliometric analysis based on a total of 1028 publications regarding ASs published between 1900 and 2021 using VOSviewer 1.6.18 and CiteSpace 6.1.R3 software. The results suggest that ASs research has received increasing attention in recent years. The most productive country has been the USA, while the institution with the most publications was Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Conicet. “Zoology” was the category of the most popular subject, Journal of Molluscan Studies was the primary journal, and P.R. Martin was the most outstanding author in ASs field. Invasive alien species, alarm response, copper (Cu) exposure, taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis, Angiostrongylus cantonensis (parasite), control (including molluscicidal activity), growth and reproduction, and feeding preferences were the main research hotspots. Further, “Pomacea maculata”, “Evolution”, “Biology”, “Digestive gland”, “Phylogeny”, “Identification”, “Pomacea canaliculata caenogastropoda”, “Diversity”, and “Nonnative apple snail” have been emerging active topics in recent years. These findings can help researchers in this area to better understand the direction and advances of ASs research and are valuable for future research and agricultural practice of apple snail control.

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“…Despite broad availability in India and many other Asian countries, only 41 hits are available in PubMed against P. globosa, which shows the need for more investigation on this species ( (Panda et al, 2021a;PubMed 2022a;2022b, Figure 3). The first work on it was done Lal and Saxena (1952) on uricotelism. Most of the studies were investigated during .…”

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Biochemical and molecular responses of the freshwater snail Pila sp. to environmental pollutants, abiotic, and biotic stressors

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Pati

Das

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The semi-sessile, ectothermic, amphibious mollusc Pila globosa receives less attention for studying its environmental aspects. Its ecological role, ecotoxic and physiological responses to environmental factors including pollution and during dormant periods such as hibernation and estivation to understand key information about many cellular metabolic events need to be revealed. We reviewed the ecotoxic and physiological responses of P. globosa to various abiotic and biotic stressors such as heavy metals, organophosphorous, carbamate and butachlor in relation its adaptation to energy expenditure, fat metabolism in the dormant period, desiccation, etc. The responses analysed in terms of oxidative stress, respiratory and antioxidant enzymes, carbohydrate metabolism and activities of neurotransmitter enzymes such as acetylcholinesterase to better understand the connection between environmental factors and metabolic events in P. globosa. Articles published in the English language from 1952 to July of 2022 in PubMed, Google search engine and AGRICOLA that describes any of the above-mentioned search terms in P. globosa were included in the review article. Articles not containing any of the above terms were excluded. The 41 results were found in PubMed and 10 results from AGRICOLA and about 80 filtered articles from Google, totaling about 80 articles published until July 2022 were included in this review. The varied enzymatic activities observed in this organism under the exposure to various chemicals imply their possible use as biomarkers of eco-toxicological studies in freshwater and grassland ecosystems, for example, alleviated body carbohydrate and protein contents are up to 32% and 37% during aestivation and hibernation, respectively. Similarly, activities of enzymes such as adenosine monophosphate deaminase, adenosine deaminase, succinic dehydrogenase, cytochrome-c-oxidase, and glutamate dehydrogenase are downregulated by 75.5%, 62.6%, 54%, 59%, and 62%, respectively, during above inactive periods. Acetylcholinesterase enzyme is found to be the most susceptible enzyme to be downregulated by 225%, 130%, 64%, 198%, 96.08% in this snail under exposure to environmental pollutants such as phorate (30 mg/L), formothion (37.5 mg/L), trichlorfon (2.5 mg/L), aldicarb (120 mg/L) and butachlor (100 µ moles), respectively. In conclusion, P. globosa can serve as a reliable ectothermic model for comparative ecotoxicological studies in grassland and freshwater environmental monitoring.

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Uricotelism in the Common Indian Apple-Snail, Pila globosa (Swainson)

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

Insights from an Integrated View of the Biology of Apple Snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)

A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Apple Snails (Ampullariidae)

Biochemical and molecular responses of the freshwater snail Pila sp. to environmental pollutants, abiotic, and biotic stressors

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