Bone histological correlates of high-frequency flapping flight and body mass in the furculae of birds: A phylogenetic approach

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-738

  Ponton, Fleur ^a   Montes, Laetitia ^b   Castanet, Jacques ^b   Cubo, Jorge ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alcidae; Anatidae; Bone tissue; Haversian remodelling; Phylogenetic comparative method; Podicipedidae; Rallidae; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BODY MASS; BONE; COMMON ANCESTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLIGHT; HISTOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; WATERFOWL;

ALCIDAE; ANATIDAE; AVES; PODICIPEDIDAE; RALLIDAE;

EID: 34547670250     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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