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ArticleNational science review2022

Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird.

Yanhong Pan, Zhiheng Li, Min Wang, Tao Zhao, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng

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Article in National science review, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. 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 · 2025
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  4. 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 · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yanhong PanState Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Research and Education on Biological Evolution and Environment and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, China.
Zhiheng LiKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-6982
Min WangKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-1213
Tao ZhaoState Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Research and Education on Biological Evolution and Environment and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, China.
Xiaoli WangInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, China.
Xiaoting ZhengInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A unique form of melanosomes contributing to brilliant iridescent colors in modern bird feathers, previously unknown in fossil birds, is identified in the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. The discovery highlights the complexity of plumage color nanostructures utilized early in bird evolution as far back as 130 million years ago.

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PMCPMC8824705

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