"Birds" 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.
Warm-blooded VERTEBRATES possessing FEATHERS and belonging to the class Aves.
| Descriptor ID |
D001717
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.248
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Birds" by people in this website by year, and whether "Birds" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2012 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2013 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2019 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Birds" by people in Profiles.
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Bird feathers from a Late Cretaceous coprolite. Curr Biol. 2026 Oct 05; 36(19):5107-5116.e7.
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Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird. PLoS One. 2026; 21(5):e0347641.
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Evaluating variation in Solnhofen avialans. Biol Lett. 2026 Mar 25; 22(3).
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A comprehensive reference genome assembly dataset of birds inhabiting Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. Gigascience. 2026 Jan 21; 15.
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Osteohistology of two phorusrhacids reveals uninterrupted growth strategy. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2026 Nov; 309(11):3106-3122.
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An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD). J Anim Ecol. 2025 Dec; 94(12):2597-2614.
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VoronaGasyCodes: A Public Database of Mitochondrial Barcodes for Malagasy Birds. Mol Ecol Resour. 2025 Nov; 25(8):e70027.
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Enlargement of sternum traits facilitated the evolution of powered flight in birds. Nat Ecol Evol. 2025 Sep; 9(9):1705-1718.
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Archaeopteryx. Curr Biol. 2025 Jul 07; 35(13):R643-R644.
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AvianLexiconAtlas: A database of descriptive categories of English-language bird names around the world. PLoS One. 2025; 20(6):e0325890.