Developmental mechanisms facilitating the evolution of bills and quills

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 207, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 563-573

  Schneider, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian beaks and feathers; Epithelial mesenchymal signalling interactions; Evolutionary developmental biology; Modularity; Plasticity; Quail duck chimeras

Indexed keywords

BEAK; DUCK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FOWL; GENE FUNCTION; HISTOGENESIS; MESENCHYME; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REVIEW;

AVES; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 28444462491     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00471.x     Document Type: Review

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