"Melanesia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The collective name for the islands of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia, including NEW CALEDONIA; VANUATU; New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, FIJI, etc. Melanesia (from the Greek melas, black + nesos, island) is so called from the black color of the natives who are generally considered to be descended originally from the Negroid Papuans and the Polynesians or Malays. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p748 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p344)
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D008542
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.760.590
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Melanesia" by people in Profiles.
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Melanesia holds the world's most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna. Commun Biol. 2022 11 04; 5(1):1182.
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Development and validation of serological markers for detecting recent Plasmodium vivax infection. Nat Med. 2020 05; 26(5):741-749.
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Molecular epidemiology of residual Plasmodium vivax transmission in a paediatric cohort in Solomon Islands. Malar J. 2019 Mar 28; 18(1):106.
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A new miniature Melanesian Forest Frog (Ceratobatrachidae: Cornufer) from New Britain Island, constituting the first record of the subgenus Batrachylodes from outside of the Solomon Archipelago. Zootaxa. 2018 Jan 09; 4370(1):23-44.
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A new biogeographically disjunct giant gecko (Gehyra: Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from the East Melanesian Islands. Zootaxa. 2016 Dec 14; 4208(1):zootaxa.4208.1.3.
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An Antibody Screen of a Plasmodium vivax Antigen Library Identifies Novel Merozoite Proteins Associated with Clinical Protection. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 05; 10(5):e0004639.
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The peopling of the Pacific from a bacterial perspective. Science. 2009 Jan 23; 323(5913):527-30.
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Efficacy of a new self-supporting low-profile bednet for personal protection against Anopheles farauti (Diptera: Culicidae) in a village in Papua New Guinea. J Med Entomol. 2003 Jan; 40(1):68-72.