"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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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Primate phylogenomics uncovers multiple rapid radiations and ancient interspecific introgression. PLoS Biol. 2020 12; 18(12):e3000954.
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Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time. Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 01; 36(1):61-75.
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Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. Science. 2019 09 20; 365(6459):1305-1308.
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Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 07; 3(7):1121-1130.
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Physiology, Metabolism, and Fossilization of Hot-Spring Filamentous Microbial Mats. Astrobiology. 2019 12; 19(12):1442-1458.
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Ancient plant DNA in the genomic era. Nat Plants. 2018 07; 4(7):394-396.
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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin's enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica. Nat Commun. 2017 06 27; 8:15951.
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Late pleistocene Australian marsupial DNA clarifies the affinities of extinct megafaunal kangaroos and wallabies. Mol Biol Evol. 2015 Mar; 32(3):574-84.
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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proc Biol Sci. 2014 Jun 07; 281(1784):20132049.
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Dinosaur peptides suggest mechanisms of protein survival. PLoS One. 2011; 6(6):e20381.