Metabolic 'engines' of flight drive genome size reduction in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1779, 2014, Pages

  Wright, Natalie A ^a   Gregory, T Ryan ^b   Witt, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

C value; Flight; Flight muscles; Genome size; Heart index

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; CORRECTION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; C-VALUE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLES; FLYING; FORELIMB; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HEART; HEART INDEX; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

C-VALUE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLES; GENOME SIZE; HEART INDEX;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; HEART; METABOLISM; MYOCARDIUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

EID: 84893050882     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2780     Document Type: Article

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