Alligators and Crocodiles
"Alligators and Crocodiles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Large, long-tailed reptiles, including caimans, of the order Loricata.
| Descriptor ID |
D000489
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.100
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alligators and Crocodiles" by people in Profiles.
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Hale MD, Parrott BB. Assessing the Ability of Developmentally Precocious Estrogen Signaling to Recapitulate Ovarian Transcriptomes and Follicle Dynamics in Alligators from a Contaminated Lake. Environ Health Perspect. 2020 11; 128(11):117003.
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Bock SL, Lowers RH, Rainwater TR, Stolen E, Drake JM, Wilkinson PM, Weiss S, Back B, Guillette L, Parrott BB. Spatial and temporal variation in nest temperatures forecasts sex ratio skews in a crocodilian with environmental sex determination. Proc Biol Sci. 2020 05 13; 287(1926):20200210.
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Rashid DJ, Bradley R, Bailleul AM, Surya K, Woodward HN, Wu P, Wu YB, Menke DB, Minchey SG, Parrott B, Bock SL, Merzdorf C, Narotzky E, Burke N, Horner JR, Chapman SC. Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups. Sci Rep. 2020 04 14; 10(1):6303.
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McNabb NA, Bernhard MC, Brunell A, Lowers RH, Katsu Y, Spyropoulos DD, Kohno S. Oil dispersant Corexit 9500 is weakly estrogenic, but does not skew the sex ratio in Alligator mississippiensis. J Appl Toxicol. 2020 02; 40(2):245-256.
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Hale MD, Bertucci EM, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Parrott BB. The impact of maternally derived dioxins on embryonic development and hepatic AHR signaling in a long-lived apex predator. Chemosphere. 2019 Aug; 229:489-499.
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Hale MD, McCoy JA, Doheny BM, Galligan TM, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. Embryonic estrogen exposure recapitulates persistent ovarian transcriptional programs in a model of environmental endocrine disruption. Biol Reprod. 2019 01 01; 100(1):149-161.
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Galligan TM, Hale MD, McCoy JA, Bermudez DS, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. Assessing impacts of precocious steroid exposure on thyroid physiology and gene expression patterns in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2019 01 15; 271:61-72.
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Williams CE, McNabb NA, Brunell A, Lowers RH, Katsu Y, Spyropoulos DD, Kohno S. Feminizing effects of exposure to Corexit-enhanced water-accommodated fraction of crude oil in vitro on sex determination in Alligator mississippiensis. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2018 09 01; 265:46-55.
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Hale MD, Galligan TM, Rainwater TR, Moore BC, Wilkinson PM, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. AHR and CYP1A expression link historical contamination events to modern day developmental effects in the American alligator. Environ Pollut. 2017 Nov; 230:1050-1061.
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Tipton JJ, Guillette LJ, Lovelace S, Parrott BB, Rainwater TR, Reiner JL. Analysis of PFAAs in American alligators part 2: Potential dietary exposure of South Carolina hunters from recreationally harvested alligator meat. J Environ Sci (China). 2017 Nov; 61:31-38.