Nephropidae
"Nephropidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Family of large marine CRUSTACEA, in the order DECAPODA. These are called clawed lobsters because they bear pincers on the first three pairs of legs. The American lobster and Cape lobster in the genus Homarus are commonly used for food.
| Descriptor ID |
D008121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.365.190.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Nephropidae- Nephropidae
- Clawed Lobsters
- Clawed Lobster
- Lobster, Clawed
- Lobsters, Clawed
- Homaridae
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Nephropidae" by people in Profiles.
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Yu X, Mykles DL. Cloning of a muscle-specific calpain from the American lobster Homarus americanus: expression associated with muscle atrophy and restoration during moulting. J Exp Biol. 2003 Feb; 206(Pt 3):561-75.
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Koenders A, Yu X, Chang ES, Mykles DL. Ubiquitin and actin expression in claw muscles of land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, and American lobster, Homarus americanus: differential expression of ubiquitin in two slow muscle fiber types during molt-induced atrophy. J Exp Zool. 2002 Jun 01; 292(7):618-32.
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Koehl MA, Koseff JR, Crimaldi JP, McCay MG, Cooper T, Wiley MB, Moore PA. Lobster sniffing: antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume. Science. 2001 Nov 30; 294(5548):1948-51.