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Venomics of Remipede Crustaceans Reveals Novel Peptide Diversity and Illuminates the Venom’s Biological Role [PDF]

, 2017
© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Björn von Reumont, Dantuma, Eivind Undheim, Fry, Koenemann, Kuhn-Nentwig, Martin, Olesen, Robin-Tobias Jauss, Ronald Jenner, Runham, Schmidt, Schram, Schram, Von Reumont   +14 more
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Poisonous Spiders: Bites, Symptoms, and Treatment; an Educational Re-view

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
More than 40,000 species of spiders have been identified in the world. Spider bites is a common problem among people, however few of them are harmful but delay in treatment can cause death.
Farzad Rahmani, Seyed Mahdi Banan Khojasteh, Hanieh Ebrahimi Bakhtavr, Farnaz Rahmani, Kavous Shahsavari Nia, Gholamreza Faridaalaee   +5 more
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A Cascaded Strategy With Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Forward Kinematics Solutions for CCRobot‐S

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel cable‐climbing mechanism: the Collaborative Climbing Robot Squad (CCRobot‐S), a variant of Reconfigurable Cable‐Driven Parallel Robots (R‐CDPR), specifically designed for the inspection and maintenance of stay cables.
Zhenliang Zheng, Yongyuan Xu, Xuchun He, Tin Lun Lam, Ning Ding   +4 more
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Ontogenesis, gender, and molting influence the venom yield in the spider Coremiocnemis tropix (Araneae, Theraphosidae) [PDF]

, 2010
The demand for spider venom increases along with the growing popularity of venoms-based research. A deeper understanding of factors that influence the venom yield in spiders would therefore be of interest to both commercial venom suppliers and research ...
Herzig, Volker
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Brazilian Theraphosidae: a toxicological point of view

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2021
The Theraphosidae family includes the largest number of species of the Mygalomorphae infraorder, with hundreds of species currently catalogued. However, there is a huge lack on physiologic and even ecologic information available, especially in Brazil ...
Keven Wender Rodrigues Macedo, Lucas Jeferson de Lima Costa, Jéssica Oliveira de Souza, Isadora Alves de Vasconcelos, Jessica Schneider de Castro, Carlos José Correia de Santana, Ana Carolina Martins Magalhães, Mariana de Souza Castro, Osmindo Rodrigues Pires Júnior   +8 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Friends or Foes? Emerging Impacts of Biological Toxins [PDF]

, 2019
Toxins are substances produced from biological sources (e.g., animal, plants, microorganisms) that have deleterious effects on a living organism. Despite the obvious health concerns of being exposed to toxins, they are having substantial positive impacts
Casewell, N.R., Clark, G.C., Elliott, C.T., Harvey, A.L., Jamieson, A.G., Strong, Peter, Turner, A.D.   +6 more
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Terrestrial venomous animals, the envenomings they cause, and treatment perspectives in the Middle East and North Africa.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
The Middle East and Northern Africa, collectively known as the MENA region, are inhabited by a plethora of venomous animals that cause up to 420,000 bites and stings each year. To understand the resultant health burden and the key variables affecting it,
Timothy P Jenkins, Shirin Ahmadi, Matyas A Bittenbinder, Trenton K Stewart, Dilber E Akgun, Melissa Hale, Nafiseh N Nasrabadi, Darian S Wolff, Freek J Vonk, Jeroen Kool, Andreas H Laustsen   +10 more
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
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