Arthropods
"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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B01.050.500.131
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Arthropods" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Arthropods" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arthropods" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Diamond SE, Martin RA, Avery AJ, Bellino G, Fleming D, McCluney KE, Prileson EG, Sasaki M. Thermophilization over space but not time among communities of ground-dwelling arthropods in a desert city. Ecology. 2026 Jan; 107(1):e70283.
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Gir?n JC, Tarasov S, Gonz?lez Monta?a LA, Matentzoglu N, Smith AD, Koch M, Boudinot BE, Bouchard P, Burks R, Vogt L, Yoder M, Osumi-Sutherland D, Friedrich F, Beutel RG, Mik? I. Formalizing Invertebrate Morphological Data: A Descriptive Model for Cuticle-Based Skeleto-Muscular Systems, an Ontology for Insect Anatomy, and their Potential Applications in Biodiversity Research and Informatics. Syst Biol. 2023 11 01; 72(5):1084-1100.
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Christman MC, Doctor DH, Niemiller ML, Weary DJ, Young JA, Zigler KS, Culver DC. Predicting the Occurrence of Cave-Inhabiting Fauna Based on Features of the Earth Surface Environment. PLoS One. 2016; 11(8):e0160408.
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