Was dinosaurian physiology inherited by birds? Reconciling slow growth in Archaeopteryx

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Erickson, Gregory M ^a,f   Rauhut, Oliver W M ^b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^c   Turner, Alan H ^d,f   Inouye, Brian D ^a   Hu, Dongyu ^e   Norell, Mark A ^f  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHAEOPTERYX LITHOGRAPHICA; ARTICLE; AVIAN GENETICS; BIRD; BONE MATRIX; BONE TISSUE; DINOSAUR; GROWTH RATE; INHERITANCE; LONG BONE; MESOZOIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLYING; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 70350536535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007390     Document Type: Article

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