DNA content and distribution in ancient feathers and potential to reconstruct the plumage of extinct avian taxa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3395-3402

  Rawlence, Nicolas J ^a   Wood, Jamie R ^b   Armstrong, Kyle N ^a   Cooper, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Feathers; Moa; Phenotype; Plumage reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BIRD; DNA; EXTINCTION; FEATHER; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLUMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE; SUBFOSSIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTINCT SPECIES; FEATHER; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; INFORMATION CENTER; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PARAKEET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES; HOLGUIN; MOA;

AVES; CYANORAMPHUS NOVAEZELANDIAE NOVAEZELANDIAE; PSITTACIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEATHERS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349628633     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0755     Document Type: Article

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