"Thoracica" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A superorder of marine CRUSTACEA, free swimming in the larval state, but permanently fixed as adults. There are some 800 described species, grouped in several genera, and comprising of two major orders of barnacles: stalked (Pedunculata) and sessile (Sessilia).
| Descriptor ID |
D001468
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.365.880
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| Concept/Terms |
Thoracica- Thoracica
- Thoracicas
- Barnacles
- Barnacle
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| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thoracica" by people in Profiles.
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Dynamic patterns and ecological impacts of declining ocean pH in a high-resolution multi-year dataset. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 02; 105(48):18848-53.
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Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs. Ecology. 2008 Aug; 89(8):2083-9.