"Birds" 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.
Warm-blooded VERTEBRATES possessing FEATHERS and belonging to the class Aves.
| Descriptor ID |
D001717
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.248
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birds" by people in this website by year, and whether "Birds" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2012 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2013 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Birds" by people in Profiles.
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Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan. Nature. 2025 May; 641(8065):1201-1207.
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Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2025 Feb 27; 380(1920):20230426.
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New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus. PLoS One. 2024; 19(10):e0310686.
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Direct evidence of frugivory in the Mesozoic bird Longipteryx contradicts morphological proxies for diet. Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 07; 34(19):4559-4566.e1.
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Ant impacts on global patterns of bird elevational diversity. Ecol Lett. 2024 Aug; 27(8):e14497.
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Earliest evidence of avian primary feather moult. Biol Lett. 2024 Jun; 20(7):20240106.
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Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes. Nature. 2024 May; 629(8013):851-860.
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Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Feb 20; 121(8):e2306639121.
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Genomic signatures of convergent shifts to plunge-diving behavior in birds. Commun Biol. 2023 10 24; 6(1):1011.
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Acorn woodpecker movements and social networks change with wildfire smoke. Curr Biol. 2023 10 09; 33(19):R996-R997.