"Columbidae" 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.
Family in the order COLUMBIFORMES, comprised of pigeons or doves. They are BIRDS with short legs, stout bodies, small heads, and slender bills. Some sources call the smaller species doves and the larger pigeons, but the names are interchangeable.
| Descriptor ID |
D010856
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.248.165.150
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| Concept/Terms |
Columba livia- Columba livia
- Rock Doves
- Dove, Rock
- Doves, Rock
- Rock Dove
- Feral Pigeons
- Feral Pigeon
- Pigeon, Feral
- Pigeons, Feral
- Domestic Pigeons
- Domestic Pigeon
- Pigeon, Domestic
- Pigeons, Domestic
- Rock Pigeons
- Pigeon, Rock
- Pigeons, Rock
- Rock Pigeon
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Columbidae" by people in Profiles.
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Sensory and working memory in a spatial change-detection task by pigeons and humans. Behav Processes. 2019 Dec; 169:103957.
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Poxvirus Infection in a Colony of Laboratory Pigeons (Columba livia). Comp Med. 2019 05 01; 69(3):179-183.
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Introgression of regulatory alleles and a missense coding mutation drive plumage pattern diversity in the rock pigeon. Elife. 2018 07 17; 7.
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Concept learning set-size functions for Clark's nutcrackers. J Exp Anal Behav. 2016 Jan; 105(1):76-84.
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Magnetic field-driven induction of ZENK in the trigeminal system of pigeons (Columba livia). J R Soc Interface. 2014 Nov 06; 11(100):20140777.
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Testing visual short-term memory of pigeons (Columba livia) and a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) with a location change detection task. Anim Cogn. 2013 Sep; 16(5):839-44.
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Genomic diversity and evolution of the head crest in the rock pigeon. Science. 2013 Mar 01; 339(6123):1063-7.
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Visual object complexity limits pigeon short-term memory. Behav Processes. 2013 Feb; 93:31-8.
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Neural correlates of a magnetic sense. Science. 2012 May 25; 336(6084):1054-7.
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Change detection by rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and pigeons (Columba livia). J Comp Psychol. 2012 Aug; 126(3):203-12.