"Body Size" 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.
The physical measurements of a body.
| Descriptor ID |
D049628
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.160 E05.041.124.160 G07.100.100.160 G07.345.249.314
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Size- Body Size
- Body Sizes
- Size, Body
- Sizes, Body
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Body Size".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Body Size" by people in this website by year, and whether "Body Size" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Size" by people in Profiles.
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Diversity and disparity are decoupled in the most ecomorphologically diverse rodent radiation. Evolution. 2026 Sep 07; 80(9):2046-2061.
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A new species of Microeledone from Galápagos Islands and an amended diagnosis of the Megaleledonidae (Octopoda: Incirrata). Zootaxa. 2026 05 25; 5814(4):533-549.
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Brygophis coulangesi (Domergue, 1988) (Serpentes: Pseudoxyrhophiidae) and its taxonomic relationship with respect to Compsophis (Günther, 1882). Zootaxa. 2025 Dec 16; 5729(3):469-476.
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Systematics and biogeography of tube-nosed bats, Murina (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), from the Philippines with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa. 2025 Sep 08; 5691(1):1-44.
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Three new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Mammalia), members of a clade endemic to Mindoro Island. Zootaxa. 2025 Jun 12; 5647(1):1-26.
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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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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment. Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 03; 8(1):162.
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Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 10; 291(2033):20241897.
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Three new species of wood-boring bivalves (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the deep Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa. 2024 Aug 12; 5493(3):275-290.
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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.