Comment on "Narrow primary feather rachises in Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx suggest poor flight ability"

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6002, 2010, Pages

  Zheng, Xiaoting ^a,b   Xu, Xing ^c   Zhou, Zhonghe ^c   Miao, Desui ^d   Zhang, Fucheng ^c  

^a Tianyu Natural Museum of Shandong   (China)

^b LINYI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOPTERYX; BIRD; CONFUCIUSORNIS; FEATHER; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIMARY FEATHER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; CONFUCIUSORNIS;

EID: 77957931454     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193223     Document Type: Note

References (4)

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4. Support for this research was provided by the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Major Basic Research Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.