"Flatfishes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Common name for the order Pleuronectiformes. A very distinctive group in that during development they become asymmetrical, i.e., one eye migrates to lie adjacent to the other. They swim on the eyeless side. FLOUNDER, sole, and turbot, along with several others, are included in this order.
| Descriptor ID |
D005412
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.493.418
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| Concept/Terms |
Turbot- Turbot
- Turbots
- Psetta maxima
- Scophthalmus maximus
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Flatfishes" by people in Profiles.
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Biological responses of marine flatfish exposed to municipal wastewater effluent. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2014 Mar; 33(3):583-91.
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Molecular analysis of endocrine disruption in hornyhead turbot at wastewater outfalls in southern california using a second generation multi-species microarray. PLoS One. 2013; 8(9):e75553.
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Genomic and phenotypic response of hornyhead turbot exposed to municipal wastewater effluents. Aquat Toxicol. 2013 Sep 15; 140-141:174-84.
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Teleost fish (Solea solea): a novel model for ecotoxicological assay of contaminated sediments. Aquat Toxicol. 2012 Mar; 109:133-42.
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Analysis of endocrine disruption in Southern California coastal fish using an aquatic multispecies microarray. Environ Health Perspect. 2009 Feb; 117(2):223-30.