"Animal Migration" 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.
Periodic movements of animals in response to seasonal changes or reproductive instinct. Hormonal changes are the trigger in at least some animals. Most migrations are made for reasons of climatic change, feeding, or breeding.
| Descriptor ID |
D025041
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.069.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Animal Migration- Animal Migration
- Animal Migrations
- Migrations, Animal
- Migration, Animal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Animal Migration" by people in Profiles.
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Plasticity of cold hardiness in the eastern spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2021 09; 259:110998.
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Biogeographic problem-solving reveals the Late Pleistocene translocation of a short-faced bear to the California Channel Islands. Sci Rep. 2020 09 16; 10(1):15172.
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Population assignment reveals low migratory connectivity in a weakly structured songbird. Mol Ecol. 2019 05; 28(9):2122-2135.
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Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017 Jun 05; 372(1722).
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Genetic Evidence of Contemporary Dispersal of the Intermediate Snail Host of Schistosoma japonicum: Movement of an NTD Host Is Facilitated by Land Use and Landscape Connectivity. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 12; 10(12):e0005151.
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Possible basis for the emergence of H1N1 viruses with pandemic potential from avian hosts. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2015 Jul; 4(7):e40.
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Flying over an infected landscape: distribution of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 risk in South Asia and satellite tracking of wild waterfowl. Ecohealth. 2010 Dec; 7(4):448-58.
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Local adaptation and pronounced genetic differentiation in an extremophile fish, Poecilia mexicana, inhabiting a Mexican cave with toxic hydrogen sulphide. Mol Ecol. 2007 Mar; 16(5):967-76.