"Homing Behavior" 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.
Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration (ANIMAL MIGRATION).
| Descriptor ID |
D006702
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.646
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| Concept/Terms |
Homing Behavior- Homing Behavior
- Behavior, Homing
- Behaviors, Homing
- Homing Behaviors
Home Range- Home Range
- Home Ranges
- Range, Home
- Ranges, Home
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Homing Behavior" by people in Profiles.
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Winter GPS tagging reveals home ranges during the breeding season for a boreal-nesting migrant songbird, the Golden-crowned Sparrow. PLoS One. 2024; 19(6):e0305369.
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Photoperiodic influences on ultradian rhythms of male Siberian hamsters. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e41723.
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Determinants of northerly range limits along the Himalayan bird diversity gradient. Am Nat. 2011 Oct; 178 Suppl 1:S97-108.
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Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes. Science. 2002 Feb 08; 295(5557):1062-5.
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Lack of genetic differentiation among widely spaced subpopulations of a butterfly with home range behaviour. Heredity (Edinb). 2001 Feb; 86(Pt 2):243-50.