Rates of dinosaur limb evolution provide evidence for exceptional radiation in Mesozoic birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Benson, Roger B J ^a   Choiniere, Jonah N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Evolutionary constraints; Evolutionary rates; Mesozoic birds; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANCESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LIMB; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOGENE;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FLYING; FOSSIL; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; EXTREMITIES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84903316592     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1780     Document Type: Article

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