"Bees" 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.
Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. About 3500 species occur in North America. They differ from most WASPS in that their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food.
MeSH Number(s)
B01.050.500.131.617.479.387
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bees" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Bees" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Bees" by people in Profiles.
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Seeing Gender Bias Through a Corrected Lens. JAMA Surg. 2023 02 01; 158(2):e226428.
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SurferBot: a wave-propelled aquatic vibrobot. Bioinspir Biomim. 2022 07 25; 17(5).
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Use of nest bundles to monitor agrochemical exposure and effects among cavity nesting pollinators. Environ Pollut. 2021 Oct 01; 286:117142.
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Microbial community modulates growth of symbiotic fungus required for stingless bee metamorphosis. PLoS One. 2019; 14(7):e0219696.
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Honey bee Royalactin unlocks conserved pluripotency pathway in mammals. Nat Commun. 2018 12 04; 9(1):5078.
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A twenty-two-year experience with Hymenoptera venom immunotherapy in a US pediatric tertiary care center 1996-2018. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2018 12; 121(6):722-728.e1.
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Stingless Bee Larvae Require Fungal Steroid to Pupate. Sci Rep. 2018 01 18; 8(1):1122.
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An Anatomically Constrained Model for Path Integration in the Bee Brain. Curr Biol. 2017 Oct 23; 27(20):3069-3085.e11.
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Trueness and precision of the real-time RT-PCR method for quantifying the chronic bee paralysis virus genome in bee homogenates evaluated by a comparative inter-laboratory study. J Virol Methods. 2017 10; 248:217-225.
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Nasal delivery of chitosan-coated poly(lactide-co-glycolide)-encapsulated honeybee (Apis mellifera) venom promotes Th 1-specific systemic and local intestinal immune responses in weaned pigs. Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2016 Oct 01; 178:99-106.