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علوم بهداشتی ایران, 2018 Background and purpose: Scorpionism is a public health problem in Darmian City. This study was conducted to determine the biodiversity and faunistic of scorpions in order to discover the health preventive features of scorpion sting among the residents ...
Farzad Motevalli Haghi +4 more
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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2021 Asian forest scorpions belong to the subfamily Heterometrinae and include some of the poorly known scorpion fauna in India in general and Telangana State in particular.
Bagari RAMAKRISHNA +1 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex response might have been formed throughout human evolution.
E. Landová +7 more
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Do Spiders Ride on the Fear of Scorpions? A Cross-Cultural Eye Tracking Study
Animals, 2022 Deep fear of spiders is common in many countries, yet its origin remains unexplained. In this study, we tested a hypothesis based on recent studies suggesting that fear of spiders might stem from a generalized fear of chelicerates or fear of scorpions ...
Veronika Rudolfová +10 more
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Therapeutic Potential of Bee and Scorpion Venom Phospholipase A2 (PLA2): A Narrative Review [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Venomous arthropods such as scorpions and bees form one of the important groups with an essential role in medical entomology. Their venom possesses a mixture of diverse compounds, such as peptides, some of which have toxic effects, and enzymatic peptide ...
Parisa Soltan-Alinejad +3 more
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Isolation and characterization of bacterial community in the gut of the Androctonus crassicuda, Hottentota schach and Mesobuthus epeus scorpions [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2019 Scorpions (order: Scorpiones) are widely distributed predatory arachnids and highly resistant to environmental conditions. Some factors such as microorganisms of internal cavity of scorpions may affect their biology. In addition, microbial communities of
Hedieh Jafari +4 more
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Psammophilic scorpions in deserts of Iran [PDF]
, 2021 In this study totally 3453 scorpions belonged buthidae family collected from different localities in south and southwestern provinces of Iran. The six psammophilic scorpions were identified in this research: Kraepelinia palpator, Polisius persicus ...
SH Navidpour, Navidpour SH
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Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2019 Background: Scorpions pose one of the most important public health and medical problems in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, especially in developing countries.
Faranak Firoozfar +7 more
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Watch Out for Your Neighbor: Climbing onto Shrubs Is Related to Risk of Cannibalism in the Scorpion Buthus cf. occitanus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The distribution and behavior of foraging animals usually imply a balance between resource availability and predation risk. In some predators such as scorpions, cannibalism constitutes an important mortality factor determining their ecology and behavior.
Francisco Sánchez-Piñero +1 more
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2022 Background: Scorpionism is a worldwide problem that has already made thousands of victims, and multi-disciplinary approaches for controlling their populations are to be more successful.
Gabriel Pimenta Murayama +3 more
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