New evidence on the colour and nature of the isolated Archaeopteryx feather

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carney, Ryan M ^a   Vinther, Jakob ^b   Shawkey, Matthew D ^c   D'Alba, Liliana ^c   Ackermann, Jörg ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^d CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE DIOXIDE; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; DINOSAUR; EUMELANOSOME; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MELANOSOME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; UPPER JURASSIC; ANIMAL; FLYING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DINOSAURS; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; WING;

EID: 84856762874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1642     Document Type: Article

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