From snout to beak: The loss of teeth in birds

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 663-673

  Louchart, Antoine ^a   Viriot, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLADISTICS; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MESOZOIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL; AVIAN STOMACH; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; TOOTH; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GIZZARD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODONTOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOOTH;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 81055156042     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.004     Document Type: Review

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