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Direct quantification of skeletal pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait

Skeletal pneumaticity is a key feature of extant avian structure and biology, which first evolved among the non-flying archosaurian ancestors of birds. The widespread presence of air-filled bones across the postcranial skeleton is unique to birds among living vertebrates, but the true extent of skel...

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Autores principales: Burton, Maria Grace P., Benson, Roger B. J., Field, Daniel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36919426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0160