The bizarre wing of the Jamaican flightless ibis Xenicibis xympithecus: A unique vertebrate adaptation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1716, 2011, Pages 2333-2337

  Longrich, Nicholas R ^a   Olson, Storrs L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flightlessness; Jamaica; Quaternary; Threskiornithidae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; FLIGHTLESSNESS; FOSSIL; LIFESTYLE; NATURAL SELECTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WING;

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; JAMAICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; FOSSILS; JAMAICA; PALEONTOLOGY; SELECTION, GENETIC; WING;

JAMAICA;

AVES; FURCULA; IBIS; THRESKIORNITHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959693439     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2117     Document Type: Article

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