"Seychelles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of Indian Ocean Islands, east of Tanzania. Their capital is Victoria. They were first claimed by the French in 1744 but taken by the English in 1794 and made a dependency of MAURITIUS in 1810. They became a crown colony in 1903 and a republic within the Commonwealth in 1976. They were named for the French finance minister, Jean Moreau de Sechelles, but respelled by the English in 1794. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p496)
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D012750
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.520.750
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Seychelles" by people in Profiles.
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Hybridization occurs between Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia in the Seychelles archipelago. J Evol Biol. 2014 Jun; 27(6):1057-68.
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Postnatal exposure to methyl mercury from fish consumption: a review and new data from the Seychelles Child Development Study. Neurotoxicology. 2009 May; 30(3):338-49.