Avian Cerebellar Floccular Fossa Size Is Not a Proxy for Flying Ability in Birds

Extinct animal behavior has often been inferred from qualitative assessments of relative brain region size in fossil endocranial casts. For instance, flight capability in pterosaurs and early birds has been inferred from the relative size of the cerebellar flocculus, which in life protrudes from the...

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Autores principales: Walsh, Stig A., Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Knoll, Monja A., Bourdon, Estelle, Barrett, Paul M., Milner, Angela C., Nudds, Robert L., Abel, Richard L., Sterpaio, Patricia Dello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3692442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067176

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3692442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067176

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