Sentence examples for ragworm from inspiring English sources

But the ragworm genome is about as complex as the human one, suggesting that what actually happened was that the flies got simpler and that, genetically, people and worms are equals.In this section Spin doctors Fear not The falcon's prey All-weather wonderland Worms and men Reprints Related items A creeping successJun 3rd 1999.

This lowly ragworm may not look much like a human, but a paper in this week's Science, by Florian Raible, of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and his colleagues, suggests the two have more in common than meets the eye.

Measuring the zinc in ragworm jaws was thus thought of as a way of monitoring zinc pollution.That suggestion, however, fell apart when it became clear that the jaws of worms from clean water, too, were stuffed with zinc.

These composites are of interest to engineers in their own right, but when Dr Broomell and Dr Waite stuck ragworm jaws in an X-ray spectroscope they found no sign of mineralisation at all.That confused them, and they have spent several years trying to find out what is really going on.

These polychaetes (relatives of the common ragworm) are the most heat-tolerant animals known.

Now researchers report that something resembling a cerebral cortex exists in the marine ragworm, a small creature with ancient roots that has not changed in hundreds of millions of years.

Rags to riches A sweet result ReprintsIn the 1980s ecologists looking for organisms that could be used as indicators of oceanic pollution took a keen interest in ragworms.

The mushroom bodies are thought to control the worm's olfactory senses, and may have helped the common ancestor of ragworms and humans to find food while crawling across the seafloor.

In the wild, ragworms breed once during the spring and then die.

The sands are pretty busy these days, too: men digging for ragworms, dog-walkers, even one brave swimmer.

The company set up by Peter Cowin and Professor Peter Olive is now producing millions of ragworms every month using waste warm water from Alcan's power station nearby to enable year-round breeding.