The parasites enter the body when a person drinks water containing water fleas infected with Guinea worm larvae, the young form of the worm.
当一个人饮用的水中含有被几内亚龙线幼虫(龙线虫的幼体)感染的水蚤,寄生虫就进入人体。Slowing down all this molecular turnover seems to slow ageing, at least in worms and flies.
减慢这种分子更新过程似乎能延缓衰老过程,至少对于线虫和果蝇是如此。The researchers were trying to understand the underpinnings of sexual attraction in the male nematodes.
研究人员希望发现雄性线虫性吸引力的来源。Caenorhabditis elegans, as the roundworm is properly known, is a tiny, transparent animal just a millimeter long.
秀丽隐杆线虫是蛔虫的学名,是一种只有1毫米长的透明小生物。In one of his first experiments, he coloured six individual cells in the transparent roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans with the aid of GFP.
在他的第一个实验,他的个人色彩六个细胞的透明蛔虫秀丽隐杆线虫的帮助下,绿色荧光蛋白。Researchers have been able to map the entire set of circuits in the roundworm C. elegans.
研究者已能够绘制秀丽隐杆线虫整组回路。They have no eyes and rely on smell for navigation and propagation.
线虫没有眼睛,只依靠嗅觉行动和繁殖。The worms - from the species Caenorhabditis elegans - are 1mm long, with just a thousand cells in their transparent bodies.
这种蠕虫,属于秀丽隐杆线虫类,身长为1毫米,其透明的身体只有一千个细胞。C. elegans detects several odorants with the bilaterally symmetric pair of AWC olfactory neurons.
线虫检测几个气味与双边对称双AWC嗅觉神经元。