Moulting tail feathers in a juvenile oviraptorisaur

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7320, 2010, Pages

  Prum, Richard O ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLIGHT; MOLTING; MORPHOLOGY; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMILICAUDIPTERYX; TAIL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLTING; STRIGIFORMES; TAIL;

EID: 78149239832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09480     Document Type: Note

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