"Scandentia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An order of the class MAMMALS that consists of one family, TUPAIIDAE (tree shrews), 5 genera (one of which is TUPAIA), and 16 species. Their recent distribution is from India to the Philippines, southern China to Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali, and other islands in those regions.
| Descriptor ID |
D016675
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.996
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scandentia" by people in Profiles.
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Molecular phylogeny of treeshrews (Mammalia: Scandentia) and the timescale of diversification in Southeast Asia. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2011 Sep; 60(3):358-72.