Massive, solidified bone in the wing of a volant courting bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 760-763

  Bostwick, Kimberly S ^a   Riccio, Mark L ^b   Humphries, Julian M ^c  

^a Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates ^*  (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Female choice; Long bone; Machaeropterus deliciosus; Sexual selection; Sonation; Vertebrate forelimb

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; WING;

AVES; MACHAEROPTERUS DELICIOSUS; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866677505     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0382     Document Type: Article

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