Plumage color patterns of an extinct dinosaur

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5971, 2010, Pages 1369-1372

  Li, Quanguo ^a   Gao, Ke Qin ^b   Vintner, Jakob ^c   Shawkey, Matthew D ^d   Clarke, Julia A ^e   D'Alba, Liliana ^d   Meng, Qingjin ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^c   Prum, Richard O ^c  

^a BEIJING MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; DINOSAUR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MELANOSOME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; MELANOSOMES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION;

DINOSAURIA; MANIRAPTORA; THEROPODA;

EID: 77949379114     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1186290     Document Type: Article

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