"Indian Ocean" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A body of water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the earth, extending amidst Africa in the west, Australia in the east, Asia in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, it constitutes the third largest ocean after the ATLANTIC OCEAN and the PACIFIC OCEAN. (New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia, 15th ed, 1990, p289)
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D019156
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.756.342
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Indian Ocean" by people in Profiles.
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Hemitrygon yemenensis sp. nov., a new species of stingray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa. 2020 Jul 23; 4819(2):zootaxa.4819.2.8.
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Description of Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal with a review of its northern Indian Ocean congeners. Zootaxa. 2019 Apr 02; 4576(2):zootaxa.4576.2.3.
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Enrichment of extremophilic exoelectrogens in microbial electrolysis cells using Red Sea brine pools as inocula. Bioresour Technol. 2017 Sep; 239:82-86.
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Bythaelurus bachi n. sp., a new deep-water catshark (Carcharhiniformes,?Scyliorhinidae) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, with a review of Bythaelurus species and a key to their identification. Zootaxa. 2016 Dec 19; 4208(5):zootaxa.4208.5.1.
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Antiepileptic ceramides from the Red Sea sponge Negombata corticata. J Nat Prod. 2008 Apr; 71(4):513-5.
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Occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War veterans. Neurology. 2003 Sep 23; 61(6):742-9.
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Araguspongines K and L, new bioactive bis-1-oxaquinolizidine N-oxide alkaloids from Red Sea specimens of Xestospongia exigua. J Nat Prod. 2002 Dec; 65(12):1782-5.