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Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers.
Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- The colour of sauropod skin. A comment on: 'Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur', (2025) by GallagherRoyal Society open science · 2026Article
- Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: A Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers.Systematic biology · 2026Article
- Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
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- From melanogenesis to melanin technologies.Communications chemistry · 2025Review
- On campus dormitories as viral transmission sinks: Phylodynamic insights into student housing networks during the COVID-19 pandemic.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals.Science advances · 2025Article
- Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota.eLife · 2025Article
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- The origin and early evolution of feathers: implications, uncertainties and future prospects.Biology letters · 2025Review
- Cellular structure of dinosaur scales reveals retention of reptile-type skin during the evolutionary transition to feathers.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Locomotion and the early Mesozoic success of Archosauromorpha.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- A colourful view of the origin of dinosaur feathers.Nature · 2022Article
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Abstract
Remarkably well-preserved soft tissues in Mesozoic fossils have yielded substantial insights into the evolution of feathers
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