Lizards

"Lizards" 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.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

Reptiles within the order Squamata that generally possess limbs, moveable EYELIDS, and EXTERNAL EAR openings, although there are some species which lack one or more of these structures.

Descriptor ID	D008116
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.150.900.833.393
Concept/Terms	Lizards Lizards Lizard Gila Monsters Gila Monsters Gila Monster Monster, Gila Monsters, Gila Chameleons Chameleons Chameleon Geckos Geckos Gecko

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Lizards".

Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Chordata [B01.050.150]
Vertebrates [B01.050.150.900]
Reptiles [B01.050.150.900.833]
Lizards [B01.050.150.900.833.393]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Lizards".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Lizards".

Lizards
Iguanas

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lizards" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lizards" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 25 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2016 and 2017

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2007	1	0	1
2010	1	0	1
2011	1	0	1
2012	2	0	2
2014	2	0	2
2015	2	0	2
2016	2	1	3
2017	2	1	3
2018	1	0	1
2020	1	0	1
2021	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2023	1	0	1
2024	2	0	2
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Lizards" by people in Profiles.

Assis BA, Sullivan AP, Marciniak S, Bergey CM, Garcia V, Szpiech ZA, Langkilde T, Perry GH. Genomic signatures of adaptation in native lizards exposed to human-introduced fire ants. Nat Commun. 2025 01 02; 16(1):89.

View in: PubMed
Hughes DF, Behangana M, Lukwago W, Menegon M, Dehling JM, Wagner P, Tilbury CR, South T, Kusamba C, Greenbaum E. Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa's Albertine Rift. Zootaxa. 2024 May 30; 5458(4):451-494.

View in: PubMed
Kircher BK, Liu B, Bramble MD, Moses MM, Behringer RR. Gene expression profile analysis of subregions of the adult female reproductive tract in the brown anole, Anolis sagrei. Reproduction. 2024 Feb 01; 169(2).

View in: PubMed
Wood MN, Soltis J, Sullivan KE, Probst T. UV irradiance effects on komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) vitamin D3, egg production, and behavior: A case study. Zoo Biol. 2023 Sep-Oct; 42(5):683-692.

View in: PubMed
Keating SE, Greenbaum E, Johnson JD, Gamble T. Identification of a cis-sex chromosome transition in banded geckos (Coleonyx, Eublepharidae, Gekkota). J Evol Biol. 2022 12; 35(12):1675-1682.

View in: PubMed
Westfall AK, Telemeco RS, Grizante MB, Waits DS, Clark AD, Simpson DY, Klabacka RL, Sullivan AP, Perry GH, Sears MW, Cox CL, Cox RM, Gifford ME, John-Alder HB, Langkilde T, Angilletta MJ, Leach? AD, Tollis M, Kusumi K, Schwartz TS. A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology. Gigascience. 2021 10 01; 10(10).

View in: PubMed
Shaney KJ, Maldonado J, Smart U, Thammachoti P, Fujita M, Hamidy A, Kurniawan N, Harvey MB, Smith EN. Phylogeography of montane dragons could shed light on the history of forests and diversification processes on Sumatra. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2020 08; 149:106840.

View in: PubMed
Portillo F, Branch WR, Conradie W, R?del MO, Penner J, Barej MF, Kusamba C, Muninga WM, Aristote MM, Bauer AM, Trape JF, Nagy ZT, Carlino P, Pauwels OSG, Menegon M, Burger M, Mazuch T, Jackson K, Hughes DF, Behangana M, Zassi-Boulou AG, Greenbaum E. Phylogeny and biogeography of the African burrowing snake subfamily Aparallactinae (Squamata: Lamprophiidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 10; 127:288-303.

View in: PubMed
Hughes DF, Tolley KA, Behangana M, Lukwago W, Menegon M, Dehling JM, Stipala J, Tilbury CR, Khan AM, Kusamba C, Greenbaum E. Cryptic diversity in Rhampholeon boulengeri (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), a pygmy chameleon from the Albertine Rift biodiversity hotspot. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 05; 122:125-141.

View in: PubMed
Harvey MB, Shaney K, Hamidy A, Kurniawan N, Smith EN. A new species of Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra with an Estimation of its phylogeny. Zootaxa. 2017 Jun 11; 4276(2):215-232.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals