Hind wings in basal birds and the evolution of leg feathers

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6125, 2013, Pages 1309-1312

  Zheng, Xiaoting ^a,b   Zhou, Zhonghe ^c   Wang, Xiaoli ^a   Zhang, Fucheng ^c   Zhang, Xiaomei ^b   Wang, Yan ^a   Wei, Guangjin ^a   Wang, Shuo ^c,d   Xu, Xing ^a,c  

^a LINYI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEATHER; FLIGHT; LIMB; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE STRUCTURE; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FORELIMB; KNOWLEDGE; METATARSAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84874988157     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1228753     Document Type: Article

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