Larva

"Larva" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Wormlike or grublike stage, following the egg in the life cycle of insects, worms, and other metamorphosing animals.

Descriptor ID	D007814
MeSH Number(s)	B05.500.500 G07.345.500.550.500.500
Concept/Terms	Larva Larva Larvae Maggots Maggots Maggot Tadpole Tadpole Tadpoles

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Larva".

Organisms [B]
Organism Forms [B05]
Life Cycle Stages [B05.500]
Larva [B05.500.500]
Biological Sciences [G]
Physiological Phenomena [G07]
Growth and Development [G07.345]
Morphogenesis [G07.345.500]
Metamorphosis, Biological [G07.345.500.550]
Life Cycle Stages [G07.345.500.550.500]
Larva [G07.345.500.550.500.500]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Larva".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Larva".

Larva
Cercaria

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Larva" by people in this website by year, and whether "Larva" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 109 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2010 and 2012

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	3	3
1996	0	2	2
1997	0	3	3
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2000	1	4	5
2001	0	1	1
2002	0	8	8
2003	0	3	3
2004	0	5	5
2005	0	3	3
2006	2	4	6
2007	0	2	2
2008	0	3	3
2009	1	3	4
2010	0	9	9
2011	0	6	6
2012	0	9	9
2013	1	3	4
2014	0	5	5
2015	0	2	2
2016	0	4	4
2017	0	2	2
2018	0	3	3
2019	0	3	3
2020	0	2	2
2021	0	5	5
2022	0	3	3
2023	0	1	1
2025	0	1	1

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Teicher G, Riffe RM, Barnaby W, Martin G, Clayton BE, Trapani JG, Downes GB. Marigold: a machine learning-based web app for zebrafish pose tracking. BMC Bioinformatics. 2025 Jan 28; 26(1):30.

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Sehadov? H, Podlahov? ?, Reppert SM, Sauman I. 3D reconstruction of larval and adult brain neuropils of two giant silk moth species: Hyalophora cecropia and Antheraea pernyi. J Insect Physiol. 2023 09; 149:104546.

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Chen ZY, Yang YC, Wang BJ, Cheng FY, Lee YL, Lee YH, Wang YJ. Comparing different surface modifications of zinc oxide nanoparticles in the developmental toxicity of zebrafish embryos and larvae. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2022 Sep 15; 243:113967.

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Nyaanga J, Goss C, Zhang G, Ahmed HN, Andersen EJ, Miller IR, Rozenich JK, Swarthout IL, Vaughn JA, Mangan NM, Shirman S, Andersen EC. Changes in body shape implicate cuticle stretch in C. elegans growth control. Cells Dev. 2022 06; 170:203780.

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Tu J, Jin Y, Zhuo J, Cao X, Liu G, Du H, Liu L, Wang J, Xiao H. Exogenous GABA improves the antioxidant and anti-aging ability of silkworm (Bombyx mori). Food Chem. 2022 Jul 30; 383:132400.

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Lam G, Nam HJ, Velentzas PD, Baehrecke EH, Thummel CS. Drosophila E93 promotes adult development and suppresses larval responses to ecdysone during metamorphosis. Dev Biol. 2022 01; 481:104-115.

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Taylor SR, Santpere G, Weinreb A, Barrett A, Reilly MB, Xu C, Varol E, Oikonomou P, Glenwinkel L, McWhirter R, Poff A, Basavaraju M, Rafi I, Yemini E, Cook SJ, Abrams A, Vidal B, Cros C, Tavazoie S, Sestan N, Hammarlund M, Hobert O, Miller DM. Molecular topography of an entire nervous system. Cell. 2021 08 05; 184(16):4329-4347.e23.

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Oberbeckmann E, Niebauer V, Watanabe S, Farnung L, Moldt M, Schmid A, Cramer P, Peterson CL, Eustermann S, Hopfner KP, Korber P. Ruler elements in chromatin remodelers set nucleosome array spacing and phasing. Nat Commun. 2021 05 28; 12(1):3232.

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Velentzas PD, Baehrecke EH. Histological assessment of developmental cell death in Drosophila pupae. STAR Protoc. 2021 06 18; 2(2):100473.

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Sant KE, Annunziato K, Conlin S, Teicher G, Chen P, Venezia O, Downes GB, Park Y, Timme-Laragy AR. Developmental exposures to perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) impact embryonic nutrition, pancreatic morphology, and adiposity in the zebrafish, Danio rerio. Environ Pollut. 2021 Apr 15; 275:116644.

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