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Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7320, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Xing ^a   Zheng, Xiaoting ^b   You, Hailu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 78149243160     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09481     Document Type: Note

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