Homing Behavior

"Homing Behavior" 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.

MeSH information

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Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration (ANIMAL MIGRATION).

Descriptor ID

D006702

MeSH Number(s)

F01.145.113.646

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Homing Behavior

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Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01]
Behavior [F01.145]
Behavior, Animal [F01.145.113]
Homing Behavior [F01.145.113.646]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Homing Behavior" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Homing Behavior" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 4 publications over 2 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	1	0	1
2015	1	2	3

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