"Reptiles" 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.
Cold-blooded, air-breathing VERTEBRATES belonging to the class Reptilia, usually covered with external scales or bony plates.
| Descriptor ID |
D012104
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Reptiles" by people in Profiles.
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Origins of mammalian vertebral function revealed through digital bending experiments. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 Jul; 291(2026):20240820.
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Commensal protists in reptiles display flexible host range and adaptation to ectothermic hosts. mBio. 2023 Dec 19; 14(6):e0227323.
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The topography of diet: Orientation patch count predicts diet in turtles. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2023 06; 306(6):1214-1227.
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Adaptive landscapes challenge the "lateral-to-sagittal" paradigm for mammalian vertebral evolution. Curr Biol. 2021 05 10; 31(9):1883-1892.e7.
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Aquatic Habits and Niche Partitioning in the Extraordinarily Long-Necked Triassic Reptile Tanystropheus. Curr Biol. 2020 10 05; 30(19):3889-3895.e2.
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Variation in limb loading magnitude and timing in tetrapods. J Exp Biol. 2020 01 27; 223(Pt 2).
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Joint angular excursions during cyclical behaviors differ between tetrapod feeding and locomotor systems. J Exp Biol. 2019 04 30; 222(Pt 9).
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Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection. Sci Rep. 2019 01 24; 9(1):152.
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Separating sexual dimorphism from other morphological variation in a specimen complex of fossil marine reptiles (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes, Chaohusaurus). Sci Rep. 2018 10 08; 8(1):14978.
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A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction. Sci Rep. 2016 05 23; 6:26232.