ArticleGeosciences2012
Homology and Potential Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms for the Development of Unique Feather Morphologies in Early Birds.
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- Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird.PloS one · 2026Article
- Medulla-free barb rami highlight the morphological diversity of early feathers.Zoological research · 2025Article
- Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Cellular structure of dinosaur scales reveals retention of reptile-type skin during the evolutionary transition to feathers.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Fossil evidence sheds light on sexual selection during the early evolution of birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Variations of Mesozoic feathers: Insights from the morphogenesis of extant feather rachises.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2020Article
- Mid-Cretaceous amber inclusions reveal morphogenesis of extinct rachis-dominated feathers.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- A mid-Cretaceous enantiornithine foot and tail feather preserved in Burmese amber.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A fully feathered enantiornithine foot and wing fragment preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Experimental subaqueous burial of a bird carcass and compaction of plumage.Palaontologische zeitschrift · 2018Article
- Review: cornification, morphogenesis and evolution of feathers.Protoplasma · 2017Review
- A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Rates of morphological evolution are heterogeneous in Early Cretaceous birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Flapping before Flight: High Resolution, Three-Dimensional Skeletal Kinematics of Wings and Legs during Avian Development.PloS one · 2016Article
- Laser Fluorescence Illuminates the Soft Tissue and Life Habits of the Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis.PloS one · 2016Article
- A Mesozoic bird from Gondwana preserving feathers.Nature communications · 2015Article
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Abstract
At least two lineages of Mesozoic birds are known to have possessed a distinct feather morphotype for which there is no neornithine (modern) equivalent. The early stepwise evolution of apparently modern feathers occurred within Maniraptora, basal to the avian transition, with asymmetrical pennaceous feathers suited for flight present in the most basal recognized avian,
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