Sauropod dinosaurs evolved moderately sized genomes unrelated to body size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4303-4308

  Organ, Chris L ^a   Brusatte, Stephen L ^b,c   Stein, Koen ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinosauria; Genome size; Genomics; Palaeogenomics; Sauropodomorpha

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENOME; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENETICS; REPTILE;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; LOXODONTA; MAMMALIA; ORNITHISCHIA; REPTILIA; SAURISCHIA; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; THEROPODA;

EID: 72749096009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1343     Document Type: Article

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