"Mammals" 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 vertebrate animals belonging to the class Mammalia, including all that possess hair and suckle their young.
| Descriptor ID |
D008322
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mammals" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mammals" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1998 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2008 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2015 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2021 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2022 | 3 | 24 | 27 |
| 2023 | 2 | 27 | 29 |
| 2024 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mammals" by people in Profiles.
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Evolutionary stasis in synapsid encephalization during the end-permian mass extinction. Sci Rep. 2026 May 15; 16(1).
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Capture, Confine, Characterize: High-Throughput Dielectrophoresis-Based Single-Cell Microfluidics Platform to Analyze Mammalian and Yeast Cells Using Raman Spectroscopy. Small. 2026 Jun; 22(31):e08692.
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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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Functional development and differentiation of mammalian vestibular hair cells and their synapses. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2025; 165:235-306.
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Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals. PLoS Biol. 2025 06; 23(6):e3003188.
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When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity. Sci Adv. 2025 Feb 28; 11(9):eado3843.
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Early-middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun. 2024 12 17; 15(1):10346.
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Origins of mammalian vertebral function revealed through digital bending experiments. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 07; 291(2026):20240820.
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Small skeletons show size-specific scaling: an exploration of allometry in the mammalian lumbar spine. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 04 30; 291(2021):20232868.
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Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 04 23; 121(17):e2318596121.