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Перевод: snail

[существительное]
улитка [зоол.] ; спираль [тех.] ; тихоход ; копуша

Тезаурус:

1. A snail that spends lots of resources on making an extra-thick shell has bought safety for its own body.
2. From the selfish gene point of view we can think of both fluke genes and snail genes as "parasites" in the snail body.
3. Given that snail longevity has to be bought at the cost of some loss in the snail's reproductive success, the fluke genes are "happy" to make the snail pay that cost, since they have no interest in the snail's reproducing itself.
4. In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew, where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years.
5. It looks like some kind of mollusc, but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail, or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76).
6. WASHINGTON - Like the whiting in Alice in Wonderland who wanted the snail to go faster because of the porpoise on his tail, Americans are constantly worried about the pace of their lives.
7. Whereas snail genes stand to gain from the snail's reproduction, fluke genes don't.
8. We need to accept only that the change in snail shell is a fluke adaptation.
9. Making a shell is costly for a snail.
10. A thicker shell presumably protects the snail better.
11. The house is a mobile home, carried about as the caddis walks, like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it.
12. Because all snail genes have an equal stake in every sperm and every egg, because they all participate in the same unpartisan meiosis, they work together for the common good, and therefore tend to make the snail body a coherent, purposeful vehicle.
13. So, I suggest that fluke genes exert an influence on the shell-secreting cells of the snail, an influence that benefits themselves but is costly to the snail's genes.