"Boidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of snakes comprising the boas, anacondas, and pythons. They occupy a variety of habitats through the tropics and subtropics and are arboreal, aquatic or fossorial (burrowing). Some are oviparous, others ovoviviparous. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not crush the bones of their victims: their coils exert enough pressure to stop a prey's breathing, thus suffocating it. There are five subfamilies: Boinae, Bolyerinae, Erycinae, Pythoninae, and Tropidophiinae. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p315-320)
MeSH Number(s)
B01.050.150.900.833.672.250
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Boidae" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Boidae" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Boidae" by people in Profiles.
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Animal Models of Exercise From Rodents to Pythons. Circ Res. 2022 06 10; 130(12):1994-2014.
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Loss and Re-emergence of Legs in Snakes by Modular Evolution of Sonic hedgehog and HOXD Enhancers. Curr Biol. 2016 11 07; 26(21):2966-2973.
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Marsh rabbit mortalities tie pythons to the precipitous decline of mammals in the Everglades. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 Apr 22; 282(1805).
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Identification of a novel nidovirus in an outbreak of fatal respiratory disease in ball pythons (Python regius). Virol J. 2014 Aug 08; 11:144.
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Development of hemipenes in the ball python snake Python regius. Sex Dev. 2015; 9(1):6-20.
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Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2007 Nov; 148(3):651-6.
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Adaptive regulation of digestive performance in the genus Python. J Exp Biol. 2007 Jan; 210(Pt 2):340-56.
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Luminal nutrient signals for intestinal adaptation in pythons. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2002 Dec; 283(6):G1298-309.
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Luminal and systemic signals trigger intestinal adaptation in the juvenile python. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2000 Dec; 279(6):G1177-87.