:* Aplysia, a sea slug, whose ink release response serves as a model in neurobiology and whose growth cones serve as a model of cytoskeletal rearrangements

Indeed, the original haiku included the theme " oni " ( the " it " in Japanese is a demon, though in some parts a very young child forced to play " it " was called a " sea slug " ( namako )).

Patrick Krug, a biologist at California State University, Los Angeles named a sea slug with traits of sexual flexibility Alderia willowi partly for his grandmother and partly after Willow's character.

A live individual of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea meckelii.

Despite being tied up, Sam is able to crash their flyer into the sea, killing the slug.

The various taxa of land and sea gastropods with slug morphology occur within numerous higher taxonomic groups of shelled species ; such independent slug taxa are not in general closely related to one another.

* Caloria elegans, a colorful sea slug species

* Cyerce elegans, a sacoglossan sea slug species

* Chromodoris elegans, a synonym for Hypselodoris picta, a sea slug species found throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean

The sea slug Glaucus atlanticus also feeds on the Portuguese man o ' war, as does the violet snail Janthina janthina.

Experiments on theoretical issues in conditioning have mostly been done on vertebrates, especially rats and pigeons, but conditioning has also been studied in invertebrates, and very important data on the neural basis of conditioning has come from experiments on the sea slug, Aplysia.

* There is also evidence for horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes to parasites of the Rafflesiaceae plant family from their hosts ( also plants ), from chloroplasts of a not-yet-identified plant to the mitochondria of the bean Phaseolus, and from a heterokont alga to its predator, the sea slug Elysia chlorotica.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English term " sea slug " was originally applied to holothurians during the 18th century.

A jointly funded project announced March 19, 2010, BGI will collaborate with Sidney K. Pierce of University of South Florida and Charles Delwiche of the University of Maryland at College Park to sequence the genomes of the sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and its algal food Vaucheria litorea.

The sea slug uses genes from the algae to synthesize chlorophyll, the first interspecies of gene transfer discovered.

Initially using the sea slug as an experimental model but later working with mice, he established that the formation of memories is a consequence of short and long-term changes in the biochemistry of nerve cellsGreengard was recognized for his discovery that dopamine and a number of other transmitters can alter the functional state of neuronal proteins, and also that such changes could be reversed by subsequent environmental signals.

Research on Aplysia californica, the sea slug, has yielded detailed knowledge of the cellular mechanisms of a simple form of learning.

The California sea hare also known as the California sea slug, scientific name Aplysia californica, is a species of sea slug, specifically a sea hare, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the sea hare family, Aplysiidae.

Because of the speed of transmission, electrical synapses are found in escape mechanisms and other processes that require quick responses, such as the response to danger of the sea hare Aplysia, which quickly releases large quantities of ink to obscure enemies ' vision.

A closely related species, Aplysia vaccaria, the black sea hare, can grow to be larger still.

Like all Aplysia species, the California sea hare is herbivorous.

Aplysia californica is a typical example of a sea hare, and is noteworthy for its usefulness in studies of neurobiology because of the unusually large size of the axons that are a part of its nerve cells.

The Aplysia gill and siphon withdrawal reflex ( GSWR ) is an involuntary, defensive reflex of the sea hare Aplysia californica, a large shell-less sea snail or sea slug.

The California sea hare Aplysia californica

Aplysia californica, a sea hare.

The Californian black sea hare, Aplysia vaccaria is arguably the largest living gastropod species, and is certainly the largest living shell-less gastropod.

Aplysia is a genus of medium-sized to extremely large sea slugs, specifically sea hares, which are one clade of large sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks.

Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.

The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.

To starboard was a cape a thousand feet high, patched with ice and snow, populated by thousands of screaming sea birds.

Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.

The great `` sea to the westwards '' was a dead end.

Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.

A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;

Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.

I was slowly swimming down to the bottom of the sea.

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.