 Sciuridae
"Sciuridae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of the order Rodentia which contains 49 genera. Some of the more common genera are MARMOTA, which includes the marmot and woodchuck; Sciurus, the gray squirrel, S. carolinensis, and the fox squirrel, S. niger; Tamias, the eastern and western chipmunk; and Tamiasciurus, the red squirrel. The flying squirrels, except the scaly-tailed Anomaluridae, also belong to this family.
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D012589
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.865.750
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sciuridae" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Sciuridae" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sciuridae" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Rice SA, Ten Have GAM, Reisz JA, Gehrke S, Stefanoni D, Frare C, Barati Z, Coker RH, D'Alessandro A, Deutz NEP, Drew KL. Nitrogen recycling buffers against ammonia toxicity from skeletal muscle breakdown in hibernating arctic ground squirrels. Nat Metab. 2020 12; 2(12):1459-1471.
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