"Anura" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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An order of the class Amphibia, which includes several families of frogs and toads. They are characterized by well developed hind limbs adapted for jumping, fused head and trunk and webbed toes. The term "toad" is ambiguous and is properly applied only to the family Bufonidae.
| Descriptor ID |
D001001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.090.180
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| Concept/Terms |
Anura- Anura
- Anuras
- Toads and Frogs
- Frogs and Toads
Toad, Fire-Bellied- Toad, Fire-Bellied
- Fire-Bellied Toad
- Fire-Bellied Toads
- Toad, Fire Bellied
- Toads, Fire-Bellied
- Bombina
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Anura" by people in Profiles.
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Frog Fibres: What Muscle Architecture Can Tell Us About Anuran Locomotor Function. J Morphol. 2025 Jan; 286(1):e70016.
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Comparative muscle anatomy of the anuran pelvis and hindlimb in relation to locomotor mode. J Anat. 2024 Nov; 245(5):751-774.
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Locomotor, ecological and phylogenetic drivers of skeletal proportions in frogs. J Anat. 2023 09; 243(3):404-420.
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Divergence, gene flow, and the origin of leapfrog geographic distributions: The history of colour pattern variation in Phyllobates poison-dart frogs. Mol Ecol. 2020 10; 29(19):3702-3719.
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Ontogeny of the anuran urostyle and the developmental context of evolutionary novelty. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 02 11; 117(6):3034-3044.
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Genomic Takeover by Transposable Elements in the Strawberry Poison Frog. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 12 01; 35(12):2913-2927.
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Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. J Exp Biol. 2017 05 15; 220(Pt 10):1882-1893.
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Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. J Exp Biol. 2017 05 15; 220(Pt 10):1894-1904.
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Divergence at the edges: peripatric isolation in the montane spiny throated reed frog complex. BMC Evol Biol. 2015 Jul 01; 15:128.
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Fat frogs, mobile genes: unexpected phylogeographic patterns for the ornate chorus frog (Pseudacris ornata). Mol Ecol. 2010 Jun 01; 19(12):2501-15.