The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors

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

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 5352-5357

  Bright, Jen A ^a,b   Marugán Lobón, Jesús ^c,d   Cobb, Samuel N ^e   Rayfield, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Birds; Geometric morphometrics; Integration; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISH; INSECT; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; POLYPHYLY; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPTOR; REGULATOR GENE; SKULL; SNAKE; VERTEBRATE; VULTURE (BIRD); ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SIZE; RAPTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84966318946     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602683113     Document Type: Article

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