Garden Snail on Top of Dextral (IMAGE)

University of Nottingham

Garden Snail on Top of Dextral

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A global campaign to help find a mate for a left-coiling snail called 'Jeremy' has enabled scientists to understand how mirror-image garden snails are formed. The findings, published today in the journal Biology Letters, show that the rare left-spiralling shell of some garden snails is usually a development accident, rather than an inherited condition.

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Angus Davison University of Nottingham

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