"Pan troglodytes" 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 common chimpanzee, a species of the genus Pan, family HOMINIDAE. It lives in Africa, primarily in the tropical rainforests. There are a number of recognized subspecies.
| Descriptor ID |
D002679
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.988.400.112.400.620
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| Concept/Terms |
Pan troglodytes- Pan troglodytes
- Pan troglodyte
- troglodyte, Pan
- Chimpanzee troglodytes
- Chimpanzee troglodyte
- troglodytes, Chimpanzee
- Chimpanzee
- Chimpanzees
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pan troglodytes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pan troglodytes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pan troglodytes" by people in Profiles.
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Collective Acoustics in Pan: Conserved Roots in the Evolution of Human Musicality. Am J Primatol. 2025 Jun; 87(6):e70048.
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An eye-tracking study of visual attention in chimpanzees and bonobos when viewing different tool-using techniques. Anim Cogn. 2025 Feb 11; 28(1):12.
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Socially contagious urination in chimpanzees. Curr Biol. 2025 Jan 20; 35(2):R58-R59.
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Leveraging the T2T assembly to resolve rare and pathogenic inversions in reference genome gaps. Genome Res. 2024 11 20; 34(11):1785-1797.
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Oxytocin promotes species-relevant outgroup attention in bonobos and chimpanzees. Horm Behav. 2022 07; 143:105182.
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Uniting against a common enemy: Perceived outgroup threat elicits ingroup cohesion in chimpanzees. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0246869.
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Phase 2 Placebo-Controlled Trial of Two Vaccines to Prevent Ebola in Liberia. N Engl J Med. 2017 10 12; 377(15):1438-1447.
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SUSPECTED LYME BORRELIOSIS IN A CAPTIVE ADULT CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES). J Zoo Wildl Med. 2015 Jun; 46(2):423-6.
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Strict evolutionary conservation followed rapid gene loss on human and rhesus Y chromosomes. Nature. 2012 Feb 22; 483(7387):82-6.
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Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proc Biol Sci. 2011 Jun 07; 278(1712):1626-32.