Snail shells coil in response to a lopsided protein gradient across their shell mantles, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal EvoDevo. In contrast the shell mantle of limpets ...

Open search Close search. Home INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SINCE 1921 All Topics ... But for coiled shell critters only about a millimeter long, that’s still a pretty impressive pace.

Japanese researchers have created mirror-image snails whose shells coil in the opposite direction to what written in their genes. Content Skip to Main Content Accessibility Help ...