Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

Showing posts with label snail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snail. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Achatina Snail: An invasive species in Hong Kong 2. My fruitless hunt for steroid hormones

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In my last post, I mentioned that the accidentally introduced giant snail, Achatina, was very common in the gardens of the University of Hon...

Achatina Snail: An invasive species in Hong Kong 1. History

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The first animals I saw on arriving in Hong Kong on a dark November night in 1965 were giant snails, Achatina or Lissachatina fulica . They...
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Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.
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