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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |