"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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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arthropods" by people in Profiles.
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Ma W, Duno-Miranda S, Irving T, Craig R, Padr?n R. Relaxed tarantula skeletal muscle has two ATP energy-saving mechanisms. J Gen Physiol. 2021 03 01; 153(3).
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Padr?n R, Ma W, Duno-Miranda S, Koubassova N, Lee KH, Pinto A, Alamo L, Bola?os P, Tsaturyan A, Irving T, Craig R. The myosin interacting-heads motif present in live tarantula muscle explains tetanic and posttetanic phosphorylation mechanisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 06 02; 117(22):11865-11874.
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Porter TM, Morris DM, Basiliko N, Hajibabaei M, Doucet D, Bowman S, Emilson EJS, Emilson CE, Chartrand D, Wainio-Keizer K, S?guin A, Venier L. Variations in terrestrial arthropod DNA metabarcoding methods recovers robust beta diversity but variable richness and site indicators. Sci Rep. 2019 12 03; 9(1):18218.
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Lewis SH, Quarles KA, Yang Y, Tanguy M, Fr?zal L, Smith SA, Sharma PP, Cordaux R, Gilbert C, Giraud I, Collins DH, Zamore PD, Miska EA, Sarkies P, Jiggins FM. Pan-arthropod analysis reveals somatic piRNAs as an ancestral defence against transposable elements. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 Jan; 2(1):174-181.