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Morphological, radiographic, three-dimensional computed tomographic, and histological features of the primary upstroke and downstroke muscles and bones in the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) and the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis, Linnaeus, 1758), reflecting the evolutionary transition towards the irreversible flightlessness

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to explore whether domestication could lead to evolutionary changes towards flightlessness in the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) compared to the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) as a nonflying and flying biological model, respectively. Bones of th...

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Autores principales: El-Ghazali, Hanaa M., Abdelbaset-Ismail, Ahmed, Goda, Nehal I. A., Aref, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10464456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37626319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03649-6