"Biological Evolution" 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.
The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.
| Descriptor ID |
D005075
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.045 G16.075
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biological Evolution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Biological Evolution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 1997 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2016 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Evolution" by people in Profiles.
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A Genetic Mechanism for Convergent Skin Lightening during Recent Human Evolution. Mol Biol Evol. 2016 05; 33(5):1177-87.
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On the age of leprosy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Feb; 8(2):e2544.
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DUF1220-domain copy number implicated in human brain-size pathology and evolution. Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Sep 07; 91(3):444-54.
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Derived SNP alleles are used more frequently than ancestral alleles as risk-associated variants in common human diseases. J Bioinform Comput Biol. 2012 Apr; 10(2):1241008.
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Evolution of diversity in epidemics revealed by analysis of the human bacterial pathogen group A Streptococcus. Epidemics. 2011 Sep; 3(3-4):159-70.
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Forward-time simulation of realistic samples for genome-wide association studies. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Sep 01; 11:442.
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Conserved developmental transcriptomes in evolutionarily divergent species. Genome Biol. 2010; 11(3):R35.
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The genome sequence of taurine cattle: a window to ruminant biology and evolution. Science. 2009 Apr 24; 324(5926):522-8.
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Helicobacter pylori evolution: lineage- specific adaptations in homologs of eukaryotic Sel1-like genes. PLoS Comput Biol. 2007 Aug; 3(8):e151.
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Simulations provide support for the common disease-common variant hypothesis. Genetics. 2007 Feb; 175(2):763-76.