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The direct and delayed effect of short-term exposure to low temperature (17.5 °C) on growth, reproduction and longevity of adolescent and mature freshwater Indoplanorbis exustus Deshyaes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) was studied in the laboratory. We found that growth and reproduction were retarded, but were enhanced when later they were returned to ambient temperature.
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Parashar, B.D., Rao, K.M. Direct and delayed effects of low temperature on the freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes, 1934), intermediate host of schistosomias. Hydrobiologia 209, 259–264 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00015348
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