Bone growth marks reveal protracted growth in New Zealand kiwi (Aves, Apterygidae)

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 639-642

  Bourdon, Estelle ^a   Castanet, Jacques ^b   De Ricqlès, Armand ^b   Scofield, Paul ^c   Tennyson, Alan ^d   Lamrous, Hayat ^b   Cubo, Jorge ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CMC   (New Zealand)

^d NMNZ   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Apteryx; Kiwi; Lines of arrested growth; Moa; New Zealand; Skeletochronology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BONE; CHRONOLOGY; EOCENE; EXTINCTION; GROWTH RATE; MATURATION; PALEOBIOLOGY; SKELETON;

APTERYX; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; EXTINCT SPECIES; MIOCENE; NEW ZEALAND KIWI; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

AMAZONA AMAZONICA; APTERYGIDAE; APTERYX; AVES; DIATRYMA; DINORNITHIDAE; MAMMALIA; PSITTACIDAE; TETRAPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 70349301467     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0310     Document Type: Article

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