Finding the frame shift: Digit loss, developmental variability, and the origin of the avian hand

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-279

  Bever, Gabe S ^a   Gauthier, Jacques A ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BIRD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIMB; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; SKELETON; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; THEROPODA;

EID: 79955004475     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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