"Parasites" 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.
Invertebrate organisms that live on or in another organism (the host), and benefit at the expense of the other. Traditionally excluded from definition of parasites are pathogenic BACTERIA; FUNGI; VIRUSES; and PLANTS; though they may live parasitically.
| Descriptor ID |
D010271
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.714
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parasites" by people in Profiles.
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Potent Tetrahydroquinolone Eliminates Apicomplexan Parasites. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2020; 10:203.
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An Acoustic Password Enhances Auditory Learning in Juvenile Brood Parasitic Cowbirds. Curr Biol. 2019 12 02; 29(23):4045-4051.e3.
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Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS Biol. 2019 06; 17(6):e3000336.
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Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana. PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 06; 14(6):e1006174.
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Understanding the role of parasites in food webs using the group model. J Anim Ecol. 2018 05; 87(3):790-800.
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Celebrating parasites. Nat Genet. 2017 03 30; 49(4):483-484.
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Resolving the homology-function relationship through comparative genomics of membrane-trafficking machinery and parasite cell biology. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2016 Sep - Oct; 209(1-2):88-103.
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Diverse sampling of East African haemosporidians reveals chiropteran origin of malaria parasites in primates and rodents. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2016 06; 99:7-15.
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Microvesicles and intercellular communication in the context of parasitism. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2013; 3:49.
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Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecol Lett. 2008 Jun; 11(6):533-46.