"Forelimb" 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.
A front limb of a quadruped. (The Random House College Dictionary, 1980)
| Descriptor ID |
D005552
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
A13.395
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Forelimb".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Forelimb".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Forelimb" by people in this website by year, and whether "Forelimb" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Forelimb" by people in Profiles.
-
Mayerl CJ, Capano JG, Mme NVM, Weller HI, Kaczmarek EB, Chadam M, Blob RW, Brainerd EL, Wyneken J. Turtle Girdles: Comparing the Relationships Between Environment and Behavior on Forelimb Function in Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) and River Cooters (Pseudemys concinna). J Morphol. 2024 Dec; 285(12):e70007.
-
Mosberger AC, Sibener LJ, Chen TX, Rodrigues HFM, Hormigo R, Ingram JN, Athalye VR, Tabachnik T, Wolpert DM, Murray JM, Costa RM. Exploration biases forelimb reaching strategies. Cell Rep. 2024 Apr 23; 43(4):113958.
-
Iijima M, Mayerl CJ, Munteanu VD, Blob RW. Forelimb muscle activation patterns in American alligators: Insights into the evolution of limb posture and powered flight in archosaurs. J Anat. 2024 06; 244(6):943-958.
-
Ziermann JM, Boughner JC, Esteve-Altava B, Diogo R. Anatomical comparison across heads, fore- and hindlimbs in mammals using network models. J Anat. 2021 07; 239(1):12-31.
-
Mayerl CJ, Capano JG, Moreno AA, Wyneken J, Blob RW, Brainerd EL. Pectoral and pelvic girdle rotations during walking and swimming in a semi-aquatic turtle: testing functional role and constraint. J Exp Biol. 2019 12 12; 222(Pt 24).
-
Mayerl CJ, Blob RW. A novel, bounding gait in swimming turtles: implications for aquatic locomotor diversity. J Exp Biol. 2017 10 15; 220(Pt 20):3611-3615.
-
Blob RW, Mayerl CJ, Rivera AR, Rivera G, Young VK. "On the Fence" versus "All in": Insights from Turtles for the Evolution of Aquatic Locomotor Specializations and Habitat Transitions in Tetrapod Vertebrates. Integr Comp Biol. 2016 12; 56(6):1310-1322.
-
Diogo R, Walsh S, Smith C, Ziermann JM, Abdala V. Towards the resolution of a long-standing evolutionary question: muscle identity and attachments are mainly related to topological position and not to primordium or homeotic identity of digits. J Anat. 2015 Jun; 226(6):523-9.
-
Diogo R, Ziermann JM, Linde-Medina M. Specialize or risk disappearance - empirical evidence of anisomerism based on comparative and developmental studies of gnathostome head and limb musculature. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2015 Aug; 90(3):964-78.
-
Diogo R, Ziermann JM. Development of fore- and hindlimb muscles in frogs: morphogenesis, homeotic transformations, digit reduction, and the forelimb-hindlimb enigma. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2014 Feb; 322(2):86-105.