Search is over for a mate for Jeremy the 'lefty' snail

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08 Nov 2016 11:17:11.020

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A nationwide search to find a mate for a ‘one in a million’ rare mutant garden snail has been successful.

In October, Dr Angus Davison in The University of Nottingham’s School of Life Sciences appealed to the public for their help in match-making for Jeremy, who with a left-handed, anti-clockwise spiralling shell is a mirror image of other brown garden snails.

Dr Davison needs the offspring from Jeremy and another left-coiling or sinistral snail to be able to study the genetics of this rare condition, which may offer valuable insights into a common understanding of body asymmetry in other animals, including humans.

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More information is available from Dr Angus Davison in the School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham on +44 (0)115 823 0322, angus.davison@nottingham.ac.uk

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