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  • I received your volume on the "Arthropods" the other day, but I shall not be able to look at it for the next three weeks, as I am in the midst of my lectures, and have an annual address to deliver to the Geological

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Arthropods form lactate under anoxic conditions, with concentrations rising to nearly 2 µg/mg fresh weight, indicating this as a possible mechanism for coping with the anaerobic conditions that might prevail in arctic soils during winter.

    Conservation of arctic species 2009

  • Despite clearly being related to Arthropods, they are too different to be included in that group.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009

  • I needed something for the worm to eat, and so I had my choice of the dozen or so obscure tiny Arthropods from the Burgess Shale to choose from.

    Life's Time Capsule: The making of "Once Upon A Claw" Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009

  • Despite clearly being related to Arthropods, they are too different to be included in that group.

    Life's Time Capsule: The Anomalocaridid Gallery ART Evolved 2009

  • I needed something for the worm to eat, and so I had my choice of the dozen or so obscure tiny Arthropods from the Burgess Shale to choose from.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009

  • Modern thinking places them in the phylum Lobopodia, the group from which all hard shelled Arthropods are believed to have evolved from.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009

  • Modern thinking places them in the phylum Lobopodia, the group from which all hard shelled Arthropods are believed to have evolved from.

    Life's Time Capsule: The Anomalocaridid Gallery ART Evolved 2009

  • Arthropods are relatively little known but are important in many areas, and several damage Nothofagus forest species.

    Magellanic subpolar forests 2008

  • Arthropods are important in causing diseases in their own right, but are even more important as vectors, or transmitters, of many different pathogens that in turn cause tremendous morbidity and mortality from the diseases they cause.

    Parasite 2008

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