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Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs

BACKGROUND: Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrannosaurid fossils often display multiple, smooth-edged full-thickness erosive lesions on the mandible, either unilaterally or bilaterally. The cause of these lesions in the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen FMNH PR2081 (known informally by the name ‘Sue’) has pre...

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Autores principales: Wolff, Ewan D. S., Salisbury, Steven W., Horner, John R., Varricchio, David J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007288

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