Closely related bird species demonstrate flexibility between beak morphology and underlying developmental programs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16222-16227

  Mallarino, Ricardo ^a   Campàs, Otger ^b   Fritz, Joerg A ^b   Burns, Kevin J ^c   Weeks, Olivia G ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^b   Abzhanov, Arhat ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Craniofacial; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BEAK; BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CALMODULIN; CARTILAGE; CHICK EMBRYO; FACIAL BONES; FINCHES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; GEOSPIZA; LOXIGILLA; LOXIGILLA NOCTIS; LOXIGILLA PORTORICENSIS; LOXIGILLA VIOLACEA;

EID: 84867047869     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206205109     Document Type: Article

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