"Fishes" 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.
A group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, fins, a cartilaginous or bony endoskeleton, and elongated bodies covered with scales.
| Descriptor ID |
D005399
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.493
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fishes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fishes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2014 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fishes" by people in Profiles.
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Teeth outside the jaw: Evolution and development of the toothed head clasper in chimaeras. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Sep 16; 122(37):e2508054122.
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Novel assembly of a head-trunk interface in the sister group of jawed vertebrates. Nature. 2025 Sep; 645(8081):686-691.
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The lower jaw of Devonian ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): Anatomy, relationships, and functional morphology. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2026 Mar; 309(3):550-602.
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Ecological interactions and genomic innovation fueled the evolution of ray-finned fish endothermy. Sci Adv. 2025 Jun 27; 11(26):eads8488.
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Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish. PLoS Biol. 2025 Feb; 23(2):e3002990.
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Colonization Dynamics Explain the Decoupling of Species Richness and Morphological Disparity in Syngnatharian Fishes across Oceans. Am Nat. 2025 Mar; 205(3):E80-E99.
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The origins of gas exchange and ion regulation in fish gills: evidence from structure and function. J Comp Physiol B. 2024 Oct; 194(5):557-568.
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Rhythmic chew cycles with distinct fast and slow phases are ancestral to gnathostomes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 12 04; 378(1891):20220539.
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Beaks promote rapid morphological diversification along distinct evolutionary trajectories in labrid fishes (Eupercaria: Labridae). Evolution. 2023 09 01; 77(9):2000-2014.
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Genetic mapping of craniofacial traits in the Mexican tetra reveals loci associated with bite differences between cave and surface fish. BMC Ecol Evol. 2023 08 25; 23(1):41.