"Snakes" 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.
Limbless REPTILES of the suborder Serpentes.
| Descriptor ID |
D012911
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672
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| Concept/Terms |
Snakes- Snakes
- Snake
- Serpentes
- Ophidia
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Snakes" by people in Profiles.
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Small snakes, big cities: Population genetics of urban Dekay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi) in New Jersey. J Hered. 2026 Jan 05; 117(1):12-23.
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Interpopulation morphological differences and sexual dimorphism of Dekay's brownsnake (Storeria dekayi) along a rural-urban gradient. PeerJ. 2025; 13:e19439.
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Whole snake genomes from eighteen families of snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia) and their applications to systematics. J Hered. 2024 08 20; 115(5):487-497.
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The Origins and Diversification of the Exceptionally Rich Gemsnakes (Colubroidea: Lamprophiidae: Pseudoxyrhophiinae) in Madagascar. Syst Biol. 2019 11 01; 68(6):918-936.
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Phylogenomics using formalin-fixed and 100+ year-old intractable natural history specimens. Mol Ecol Resour. 2017 Sep; 17(5):1003-1008.
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Comparing species tree estimation with large anchored phylogenomic and small Sanger-sequenced molecular datasets: an empirical study on Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snakes. BMC Evol Biol. 2015 Oct 12; 15:221.
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Mitochondrial alarmins released by degenerating motor axon terminals activate perisynaptic Schwann cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Feb 03; 112(5):E497-505.
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Finding the neck-trunk boundary in snakes: anteroposterior dissociation of myological characteristics in snakes and its implications for their neck and trunk body regionalization. J Morphol. 2012 Sep; 273(9):992-1009.
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Morphology of the skull of the white-nosed blindsnake, Liotyphlops albirostris (Scolecophidia: Anomalepididae). J Morphol. 2009 May; 270(5):536-57.
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Effects of size and behavior on aerial performance of two species of flying snakes (Chrysopelea). J Exp Biol. 2005 May; 208(Pt 10):1835-47.