ArticleNature2018
Dinosaur egg colour had a single evolutionary origin.
Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny.Biology letters · 2025Review
- The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs.Biology letters · 2024Review
- Plumage and eggshell colouration covary with the level of sex-specific parental contributions to nest building in birds.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2024Article
- Biogeographic history, egg colouration, and habitat selection in Turdus thrushes (Aves: Turdidae).Biologia futura · 2023Article
- The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Surface texture heterogeneity in maculated bird eggshells.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Evidence for heterothermic endothermy and reptile-like eggshell mineralization inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Coloniality and development impact intraclutch consistency of avian eggs: a comparative analysis of the individual repeatability of eggshell size and shape metrics.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2023Article
- Microbially mediated fossil concretions and their characterization by the latest methodologies: a review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Raman Spectra and Ancient Life: Vibrational ID Profiles of Fossilized (Bone) Tissues.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
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- An exquisitely preservediScience · 2022Article
- Detection of porphyrins in vertebrate fossils from the Messel and implications for organic preservation in the fossil record.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Spatial variation in egg polymorphism among cuckoo hosts across 4 continents.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Hard evidence from soft fossil eggs.Nature · 2020Article
- Phylogenetic and physiological signals in metazoan fossil biomolecules.Science advances · 2020Article
- The first dinosaur egg was soft.Nature · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Birds are the only living amniotes with coloured eggs
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