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Emotions triggered by live arthropods shed light on spider phobia
Scientific Reports, 2021 Spiders are mostly harmless, yet they often trigger high levels of both fear and disgust, and arachnophobia (the phobia of spiders) ranks among the most common specific animal phobias.
Daniel Frynta +8 more
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Scorpions and Their Human Mortality Report in Iran: A Review Article
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: The scorpions have enjoyed medical importance from ancient times because of their morphological structure and venom. The identification of the species of these arthropods has been more emphasized than any other aspects.
Faranak FIROOZFAR +2 more
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, 2008 Scorpions are eight-legged carnivorous arthropods and belong to the class Arachnida. This class also includes ticks, spiders, and mites. There are approximately 1,300 species of scorpions worldwide and 75 species in the United States, but only 9 are ...
Hodgson, Erin W., Roe, Alan H.
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2022 Photoperiod is an important environmental characteristic involved in the regulation of circadian physiological processes in living organisms. This experiment verified the effect of photoperiod on biomass gain and mortality in juvenile scorpions of the ...
José Rivaldo de Lima +4 more
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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory potential of scorpion venom in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2022 Scorpion venom contains a variety of neurotoxins which interact with ion channels and affect their activities. The present study was designed to evaluate the potential of scorpion venom as acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor by using Aedes aegypti as ...
N. Riaz +6 more
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InsectsEcdysis is a well-known developmental feature among arthropods. Because the aggregate and synchronous molting of first-instar scorpions is markedly different from the common independent molting behavior of older scorpions and most arthropods, knowledge ...
Yiyuan Guo +5 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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Scorpions and life-history strategies: from evolutionary dynamics toward the scorpionism problem
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2018 This work aims to contribute to the general information on scorpion reproductive patterns in general including species that can be noxious to humans. Scorpions are unusual among terrestrial arthropods in several of their life-history traits since in many
Wilson R. Lourenço
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Aerial insects avoid fluorescing scorpions [PDF]
, 2015 The ecological function of scorpion fluorescence under ultraviolet light is unknown. In fact, no response of any organism to scorpion fluorescence has been documented.
Kloock, Carl T
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