"Horseshoe Crabs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An arthropod subclass (Xiphosura) comprising the North American (Limulus) and Asiatic (Tachypleus) genera of horseshoe crabs.
| Descriptor ID |
D006737
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.450
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| Concept/Terms |
Horseshoe Crabs- Horseshoe Crabs
- Xiphosura
- Xiphosuras
- Crabs, Horseshoe
- Crab, Horseshoe
- Horseshoe Crab
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Horseshoe Crabs" by people in Profiles.
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McKenzie JH, Alwis KU, Sordillo JE, Kalluri KS, Milton DK. Evaluation of lot-to-lot repeatability and effect of assay media choice in the recombinant Factor C assay. J Environ Monit. 2011 Jun; 13(6):1739-45.
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Zhao FQ, Craig R, Woodhead JL. Head-head interaction characterizes the relaxed state of Limulus muscle myosin filaments. J Mol Biol. 2009 Jan 16; 385(2):423-31.
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Lehman W, Craig R, Vibert P. Ca(2+)-induced tropomyosin movement in Limulus thin filaments revealed by three-dimensional reconstruction. Nature. 1994 Mar 03; 368(6466):65-7.