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The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape within‐ and between‐species social interactions. Given the role of social behaviour in reproductive fitness and survival, understanding how social
Avery L. Maune +2 more
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Poisonous spiders and other venomous arthropods in Missouri [PDF]
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Wingo, Curtis W., 1915-
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Antibacterial activity of the venom of Heterometrus xanthopus
Heterometrus xanthopus (Scorpion) is one of the most venomous and ancient arthropods. Its venom contains anti-microbial peptides like hadrurin, scorpine, Pandinin 1, and Pandinin 2 that are able to effectively kill multidrug-resistant pathogens.
Ahmed, Umair +4 more
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Abstract Background Jointed appendages represent one of the key innovations of arthropods, and thus understanding the development and evolution of these structures is important for the understanding of the evolutionary success of Arthropoda. In this paper, we analyze a cell cluster that was identified in a previous single‐cell sequencing (SCS ...
Brenda I. Medina‐Jiménez +2 more
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Arachnid toxinology in Australia: From clinical toxicology to potential applications [PDF]
The unique geographic isolation of Australia has resulted in the evolution of a distinctive range of Australian arachnid fauna. Through the pioneering work of a number of Australian arachnologists, toxinologists, and clinicians, the taxonomy and ...
Broady, KW +4 more
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Alpha, beta and gamma diversity in relatively natural, mixed and transformed landscape scenarios
Biodiversity losses and biotic homogenisation associated with human‐induced land‐cover changes are key issues for ecology. However, the effects of human‐caused land‐use changes on biodiversity change at the landscape scale are not well understood. Combining the PREDICTS global biodiversity database with MODIS satellite‐based land cover from 2001 to ...
Shuyu Deng +2 more
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REPORT OF A TYPICAL CASE One late summer evening, a young Mexican laborer, while sitting down in an infrequently used outdoor toilet in a suburb of Los Angeles, felt a sharp prick on the end of the glans penis. On looking down he saw a coarse web spun across the hole in the seat of the toilet, and a shiny black spider with a red spot on its belly ...
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Loxosceles rufescens, commonly known as the Mediterranean Recluse or Mediterranean Fiddle-Back Spider is recorded from Iran for the first time. The genus Loxosceles contains 103 accepted species, two of them (including L. rufescens) are cosmopolitan. All
Alireza Zamani, Javad Rafinejad
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Australasian Arachnology, Number 71, April 2005 [PDF]
Nearly 20 years after the first meeting of the Society in Tunanda in 1986 and more than 10 years after the Internationonal Arachnological Congress in Brisbane, in 1993, there will be another ‘reunion’ of the Australasian Arachnological Society.
Framenau, Volker
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Systemic loxoscelism - a unique cause of acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis : a case series [PDF]
Introduction: Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare, severe cutaneous eruption characterized by the numerous pustules on an erythematous base.
Bohnert, Mike +4 more
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