Assessing arboreal adaptations of bird antecedents: Testing the ecological setting of the origin of the avian flight stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Dececchi, T Alexander ^a   Larsson, Hans C E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARTICLE; AVIAN FLIGHT STROKE; CELL LINEAGE; CLAW MORPHOLOGY; CLIMBING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRURAL INDEX; DEINONYCHOSAUR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOREARM; FORELIMB; FOWL; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MANUAL PHALANGEAL INDEX; NONHUMAN; PEDAL PHALANGEAL INDEX; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATITE; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DINOSAUR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DINOSAURS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 79961236437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022292     Document Type: Article

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