Fossil evidence for evolution of the shape and color of penguin feathers

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6006, 2010, Pages 954-957

  Clarke, Julia A ^a   Ksepka, Daniel T ^b,c   Salas Gismondi, Rodolfo ^d   Altamirano, Ali J ^d   Shawkey, Matthew D ^e   D'Alba, Liliana ^e   Vinther, Jakob ^f   DeVries, Thomas J ^g   Baby, Patrice ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEATHER; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; SEABIRD; WING;

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; COLOR; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEATHER; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; FOWL; MELANOSOME; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PENGUIN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; UPPER EOCENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SPHENISCIDAE; WING;

AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 78149410333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604     Document Type: Article

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