"Fossils" 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.
Remains, impressions, or traces of animals or plants of past geological times which have been preserved in the earth's crust.
| Descriptor ID |
D005580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368.584.311
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Wolfe JM, Ballou L, Luque J, Watson-Zink VM, Ahyong ST, Barido-Sottani J, Chan TY, Chu KH, Crandall KA, Daniels SR, Felder DL, Mancke H, Martin JW, Ng PKL, Ortega-Hern?ndez J, Palacios Theil E, Pentcheff ND, Robles R, Thoma BP, Tsang LM, Wetzer R, Windsor AM, Bracken-Grissom HD. Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments. Syst Biol. 2024 Jul 27; 73(2):247-262.
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Chen SC, Sun GX, Yan Y, Konstantinidis KT, Zhang SY, Deng Y, Li XM, Cui HL, Musat F, Popp D, Rosen BP, Zhu YG. The Great Oxidation Event expanded the genetic repertoire of arsenic metabolism and cycling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 05 12; 117(19):10414-10421.
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Zichello JM, Baab KL, McNulty KP, Raxworthy CJ, Steiper ME. Hominoid intraspecific cranial variation mirrors neutral genetic diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 11 06; 115(45):11501-11506.
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Steiper ME, Seiffert ER. Evidence for a convergent slowdown in primate molecular rates and its implications for the timing of early primate evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Apr 17; 109(16):6006-11.
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Wilkinson RD, Steiper ME, Soligo C, Martin RD, Yang Z, Tavar? S. Dating primate divergences through an integrated analysis of palaeontological and molecular data. Syst Biol. 2011 Jan; 60(1):16-31.
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Sallam HM, Seiffert ER, Steiper ME, Simons EL. Fossil and molecular evidence constrain scenarios for the early evolutionary and biogeographic history of hystricognathous rodents. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Sep 29; 106(39):16722-7.
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Steiper ME, Young NM. Primate molecular divergence dates. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2006 Nov; 41(2):384-94.
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Garrigan D, Mobasher Z, Kingan SB, Wilder JA, Hammer MF. Deep haplotype divergence and long-range linkage disequilibrium at xp21.1 provide evidence that humans descend from a structured ancestral population. Genetics. 2005 Aug; 170(4):1849-56.
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Moran AL. Egg size evolution in tropical American arcid bivalves: the comparative method and the fossil record. Evolution. 2004 Dec; 58(12):2718-33.