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Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Tityus pachyurus and Tityus obscurus novel putative Na+-channel scorpion toxins. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Colombia and Brazil are affected by severe cases of scorpionism. In Colombia the most dangerous accidents are caused by Tityus pachyurus that is widely distributed around this country.
Jimmy A Guerrero-Vargas +4 more
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1995 From January 1984 to May 1994, 17 of 239 children under 15 years old stung by Tityus serrulatus (15.1%) or Tityus bahiensis (84.9%) presented severe envenoming. Of these 17 patients (1-11 years old; median=2 yr) 14 were stung by T.serrulatus and three by
Fábio Bucaretchi +6 more
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Scorpions from Ceará State, Brazil: Distribution and ecological comments
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2022 Scorpions are venomous synanthropic arachnids, in 2019 they were responsible for more than 37000 cases of envenomation in the state of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil.
Jacqueline Ramos Machado Braga +3 more
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Revista de la Sociedad Científica del Paraguay, 2022 El escorpionismo, como se denomina al cuadro clínico producido por la picadura de escorpiones tóxicos en humanos, es un problema de salud pública en áreas urbanas y rurales de la América Tropical, incluyendo Paraguay, asociado a pobreza y a la falta de ...
Eustacio Cáceres +5 more
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New Fossil Scorpion from the Chiapas Amber Lagerstätte. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 A new species of scorpion is described based on a rare entire adult male preserved in a cloudy amber from Miocene rocks in the Chiapas Highlands, south of Mexico.
Francisco Riquelme +7 more
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Arthropoda, Arachnida, Scorpiones: Estação Científica Ferreira Penna and Juruti Plateau, Pará, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2007 Six scorpion species were recorded using pitfall traps with drift-fences in the Amazonian terra firme forest of Estação Científica Ferreira Penna, Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã, Melgaço, Pará, Brazil, during four expeditions in 2003: Brotheas sp ...
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha +3 more
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Diversity of scorpions (Chelicerata: Arachnida) in the Atlantic Forest in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2014 This study was conducted to measure the biodiversity of scorpion species in the remnants of the Brazilian northeastern Atlantic Forest, an important center of biodiversity and endemism.
André Lira, Cleide Albuquerque
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Chromosome diversity in Buthidae and Chactidae scorpions from Brazilian fauna: Diploid number and distribution of repetitive DNA sequences [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2023 In this work, we analyzed cytogenetically eight Chactidae and Buthidae, including the localization of repetitive DNA sequences. The chactids possess monocentric chromosomes and the highest diploid numbers (2n=50 in Brotheas amazonicus, 2n=36 in ...
Juliana Figueiredo Lima +3 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Opportunistic scorpion species can colonize urban environments, establishing high-density communities that enhance the chances of human accidents.
Clara Guerra-Duarte +5 more
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The buzzOmeter system: In situ audio recordings of pollinators in flight
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, Page 2985-2993, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The role of sounds produced by free‐flying insects is challenging to research due to technical difficulties in obtaining audio recordings suitable for playback experiments. Experimental studies using flight sounds are needed to understand if buzzes carry information and by whom it is perceived.
Paolo Volponi +2 more
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