Radionuclide labeling of Biomphalaria glabrata snails for fiel studies

Abstract

The authors mark snails Biomphalaria glabrata with 75Se, 59Fe, 89Sr and 90Sr and through curves of uptake and decay and distribution of the radionuclides in the shell/soft parts conclude that radiostrontium can be used in field experiments on dispersion and dynamics of snail populations.