Adaptation to the Sky: Defining the Feather with Integument Fossils from Mesozoic China and Experimental Evidence from Molecular Laboratories

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-56

  Chuong, Cheng Ming ^a,c   Ping, Wu ^a   Zhang, Fu Cheng ^b   Xu, Xing ^b   Yu, Minke ^a   Widelitz, Randall B ^a   Jiang, Ting Xin ^a   Hou, Lianhai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DINOSAURIA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHICK EMBRYO; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLYING; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; INTEGUMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0142119331     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.25     Document Type: Review

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