"Arthropods" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Members of the phylum Arthropoda, composed of organisms having a hard, jointed exoskeleton and paired jointed legs. It includes the class INSECTS and the subclass ARACHNIDA, many species of which are important medically as parasites or as vectors of organisms capable of causing disease in man.
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D001181
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arthropods" by people in Profiles.
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Biland?ija H, Laslo M, Porter ML, Fong DW. Melanization in response to wounding is ancestral in arthropods and conserved in albino cave species. Sci Rep. 2017 12 07; 7(1):17148.
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Lane SJ, Shishido CM, Moran AL, Tobalske BW, Woods HA. No Effects and No Control of Epibionts in Two Species of Temperate Pycnogonids. Biol Bull. 2016 04; 230(2):165-73.
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Domenici P, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP. Animal escapology II: escape trajectory case studies. J Exp Biol. 2011 Aug 01; 214(Pt 15):2474-94.
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Thomas WE, Jordan FL, Townsel JG. The status of the study of invertebrate neurons in tissue culture--phylum Arthropoda. Comp Biochem Physiol A Comp Physiol. 1987; 87(2):215-22.
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Nocek JM, Kurtz DM, Pickering RA, Doyle MP. Oxidation of deoxyhemerythrin to semi-methemerythrin by nitrite. J Biol Chem. 1984 Oct 25; 259(20):12334-8.