"Rainforest" 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.
Forests with high average annual rainfall.
| Descriptor ID |
D065947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.275.157.437.500 N06.230.124.343.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Rainforest- Rainforest
- Rainforests
- Rain Forest
- Forest, Rain
- Forests, Rain
- Rain Forests
Temperate Rainforest- Temperate Rainforest
- Rainforest, Temperate
- Rainforests, Temperate
- Temperate Rainforests
Tropical Rainforest- Tropical Rainforest
- Rainforest, Tropical
- Rainforests, Tropical
- Tropical Rainforests
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rainforest" by people in Profiles.
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Human subsistence and signatures of selection on chemosensory genes. Commun Biol. 2023 07 03; 6(1):683.
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Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation of Hunter-Gatherers to the African Rainforest. Curr Biol. 2019 09 09; 29(17):2926-2935.e4.
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Natural selection contributed to immunological differences between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 08; 3(8):1253-1264.
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Polygenic adaptation and convergent evolution on growth and cardiac genetic pathways in African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 11 27; 115(48):E11256-E11263.
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The demographic history and mutational load of African hunter-gatherers and farmers. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 04; 2(4):721-730.
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Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America. Science. 2017 05 05; 356(6337):543-546.
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The epigenomic landscape of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and farmers. Nat Commun. 2015 Nov 30; 6:10047.
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An Ancient Divide in a Contiguous Rainforest: Endemic Earthworms in the Australian Wet Tropics. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0136943.