"Turtles" 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.
Any reptile including tortoises, fresh water, and marine species of the order Testudines with a body encased in a bony or cartilaginous shell consisting of a top (carapace) and a bottom (plastron) derived from the ribs.
| Descriptor ID |
D014426
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.848
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| Concept/Terms |
Sea Turtles- Sea Turtles
- Sea Turtle
- Turtle, Sea
- Turtles, Sea
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Turtles" by people in Profiles.
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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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A review of the toxicology of oil in vertebrates: what we have learned following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev. 2021 11 17; 24(8):355-394.
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Giant tortoise genomes provide insights into longevity and age-related disease. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 01; 3(1):87-95.
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A Triassic stem turtle with an edentulous beak. Nature. 2018 08; 560(7719):476-479.
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Do turtles follow the rules? Latitudinal gradients in species richness, body size, and geographic range area of the world's turtles. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2015 May; 324(3):270-94.
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Discharge regularity in the turtle posterior crista: comparisons between experiment and theory. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Dec; 110(12):2830-48.
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Rapid evolution of Beta-keratin genes contribute to phenotypic differences that distinguish turtles and birds from other reptiles. Genome Biol Evol. 2013; 5(5):923-33.
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Adaptive evolution of plastron shape in emydine turtles. Evolution. 2011 Feb; 65(2):377-94.
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Evolution. How did the turtle get its shell? Science. 2009 Jul 10; 325(5937):154-5.
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An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China. Nature. 2008 Nov 27; 456(7221):497-501.