"Extinction, Biological" 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 ceasing of existence of a species or taxonomic groups of organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D053476
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.510
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| Concept/Terms |
Extinction, Biological- Extinction, Biological
- Biological Extinction
- Biological Extinctions
- Extinctions, Biological
Extinction, Mass- Extinction, Mass
- Extinctions, Mass
- Mass Extinctions
- Mass Extinction
Extinction, Species- Extinction, Species
- Extinctions, Species
- Species Extinctions
- Species Extinction
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Extinction, Biological" by people in Profiles.
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Predator-prey interactions amongst Permo-Triassic terrestrial vertebrates as a deterministic factor influencing faunal collapse and turnover. J Evol Biol. 2017 01; 30(1):40-54.
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Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction. Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 05; 6:24053.
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Body size reductions in nonmammalian eutheriodont therapsids (Synapsida) during the end-Permian mass extinction. PLoS One. 2014; 9(2):e87553.
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Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 May 14; 110(20):8129-33.
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Comparative anatomy and osteohistology of hyperelongate neural spines in the sphenacodontids Sphenacodon and Dimetrodon (Amniota: Synapsida). J Morphol. 2010 Dec; 271(12):1407-21.