"Sloths" 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.
Slow-moving exclusively arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of South and Central America.
| Descriptor ID |
D012896
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.900.750
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sloths" by people in Profiles.
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Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 07; 3(7):1121-1130.
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Evolutionary Relationships among Extinct and Extant Sloths: The Evidence of Mitogenomes and Retroviruses. Genome Biol Evol. 2016 Feb 14; 8(3):607-21.