"Pacific Islands" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The islands of the Pacific Ocean divided into MICRONESIA; MELANESIA; and POLYNESIA (including NEW ZEALAND). The collective name Oceania includes the aforenamed islands, adding AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; and the Malay Archipelago (INDONESIA). (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p910, 880)
| Descriptor ID |
D010139
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760 Z01.678.100.873
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pacific Islands" by people in Profiles.
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Biogeography and morphological evolution in a Pacific island ant radiation. Mol Ecol. 2011 Jan; 20(1):114-30.
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Genetic structure of human populations. Science. 2002 Dec 20; 298(5602):2381-5.