Abstract
The presence of sugars, particularly glucose, maltose, and sucrose, in the SCW of Biomphalaria glabrata, the two strains of Helisoma trivolvis, and Lymnaea elodes was variable, although only maltose was quantifiable in two samples of snail conditioned waters from B. glabrata. The only sugar detected in mucus was glucose, but it was below the lowest quantifiable amount in the mucus samples of B. glabrata and H. trivolvis. The mean percentage of glucose in the mucus of L. elodes was 0.0040% ± 0.00067%.
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Muller, E.E., Fried, B. & Sherma, J. High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatographic Analysis of Sugars in Snail-Conditioned Water and Mucus from Biomphalaria glabrata, Helisoma trivolvis, and Lymnaea elodes . J Chem Ecol 25, 727–733 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020880330696
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