Mollusca

"Mollusca" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A phylum of the kingdom Metazoa. Mollusca have soft, unsegmented bodies with an anterior head, a dorsal visceral mass, and a ventral foot. Most are encased in a protective calcareous shell. It includes the classes GASTROPODA; BIVALVIA; CEPHALOPODA; Aplacophora; Scaphopoda; Polyplacophora; and Monoplacophora.

Descriptor ID

D008974

MeSH Number(s)

B01.050.500.644

Concept/Terms

Mollusca

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Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Invertebrates [B01.050.500]
Mollusca [B01.050.500.644]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mollusca" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Mollusca" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 20 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2002

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	1	1
1996	1	0	1
1997	0	2	2
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	2	2
2000	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	2	2	4
2005	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	1	0	1
2019	2	0	2
2020	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Mollusca" by people in Profiles.

Environmental performance of blue foods. Nature. 2021 09; 597(7876):360-365.

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The future of food from the sea. Nature. 2020 12; 588(7836):95-100.

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Processive Recoding and Metazoan Evolution of Selenoprotein P: Up to 132 UGAs in Molluscs. J Mol Biol. 2019 11 08; 431(22):4381-4407.

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Evolution of limb development in cephalopod mollusks. Elife. 2019 06 18; 8.

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Cm-p5: an antifungal hydrophilic peptide derived from the coastal mollusk Cenchritis muricatus (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). FASEB J. 2015 Aug; 29(8):3315-25.

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Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy in a wood-feeding mollusk. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Nov 25; 111(47):E5096-104.

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Genome structure analysis of molluscs revealed whole genome duplication and lineage specific repeat variation. Gene. 2011 Sep 01; 483(1-2):63-71.

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Is surface orientation a determinant for colonisation patterns of vagile and sessile macrobenthos on artificial reefs? Biofouling. 2008; 24(5):381-91.

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Cadmium dietary intake and biomarker data in French high seafood consumers. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2008 Jul; 18(4):400-9.

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Reactive oxygen species mediated apoptosis of esophageal cancer cells induced by marine triprenyl toluquinones and toluhydroquinones. Mol Cancer Ther. 2007 Sep; 6(9):2535-43.

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