Developmental patterns and the identification of homologies in the avian hand

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5338, 1997, Pages 666-668

  Burke, Ann C ^a   Feduccia, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CARPAL BONE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HAND; HINDLIMB; NONHUMAN; PHALANX; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON;

EID: 0030708572     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5338.666     Document Type: Article

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39. We thank N. Shubin and L. Witmer for valuable discussion on the manuscript. S. Whitfield did the illustrations and R. Cheeks helped with photography. Permission to modify drawings for Fig. 1 courtesy of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. A.C. B. thanks P. Alberch for early support of these ideas.