 Amphibians
"Amphibians" 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.
VERTEBRATES belonging to the class amphibia such as frogs, toads, newts and salamanders that live in a semiaquatic environment.
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D000663
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.090
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Amphibians" by people in this website by year, and whether "Amphibians" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2012 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2013 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Amphibians" by people in Profiles.
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Stewart Merrill TE, Johnson PTJ. Advancing Theory Underlying Diversity-Disease Relationships: Competence in the Context of Life History, Demography, and Disease. Integr Comp Biol. 2025 Sep 13; 65(2):362-375.
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Schrock SAR, Walsman JC, DeMarchi J, LeSage EH, Ohmer MEB, Rollins-Smith LA, Briggs CJ, Richards-Zawacki CL, Woodhams DC, Knapp RA, Smith TC, Haddad CFB, Becker CG, Johnson PTJ, Wilber MQ. Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships. Proc Biol Sci. 2025 Mar; 292(2043):20242013.
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Gallagher R, Roger E, Packer J, Slatyer C, Rowley J, Cornwell W, Ens E, Legge S, Simpfendorfer C, Stephens R, Mesaglio T. Incorporating citizen science into IUCN Red List assessments. Conserv Biol. 2025 Apr; 39(2):e14329.
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Sauer EL, Venesky MD, McMahon TA, Cohen JM, Bessler S, Brannelly LA, Brem F, Byrne AQ, Halstead N, Hyman O, Johnson PTJ, Richards-Zawacki CL, Rumschlag SL, Sears B, Rohr JR. Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses. Ecol Lett. 2024 May; 27(5):e14431.
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Johnson PTJ, Stewart Merrill TE, Dean AD, Fenton A. Diverging effects of host density and richness across biological scales drive diversity-disease outcomes. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 02; 15(1):1937.
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Johnson PTJ, Stewart Merrill T, Calhoun DM, McDevitt-Galles T, Hobart B. Into the danger zone: How the within-host distribution of parasites controls virulence. Ecol Lett. 2024 Jan; 27(1):e14352.
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Lawrence ER, Pedersen EJ, Fraser DJ. Macrogenetics reveals multifaceted influences of environmental variation on vertebrate population genetic diversity across the Americas. Mol Ecol. 2023 08; 32(16):4557-4569.
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Snyder PW, Ramsay CT, Harjoe CC, Khazan ES, Briggs CJ, Hoverman JT, Johnson PTJ, Preston D, Rohr JR, Blaustein AR. Experimental evidence that host species composition alters host-pathogen dynamics in a ranavirus-amphibian assemblage. Ecology. 2023 02; 104(2):e3885.
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Chen MY, Kueneman JG, González A, Humphrey G, Knight R, McKenzie VJ. Predicting fungal infection rate and severity with skin-associated microbial communities on amphibians. Mol Ecol. 2022 04; 31(7):2140-2156.
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Chen MY, Alexiev A, McKenzie VJ. Bacterial Biofilm Thickness and Fungal Inhibitory Bacterial Richness Both Prevent Establishment of the Amphibian Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2022 03 08; 88(5):e0160421.
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