Bone-associated gene evolution and the origin of flight in birds

BACKGROUND: Bones have been subjected to considerable selective pressure throughout vertebrate evolution, such as occurred during the adaptations associated with the development of powered flight. Powered flight evolved independently in two extant clades of vertebrates, birds and bats. While this tr...

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Autores principales: Machado, João Paulo, Johnson, Warren E., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Zhang, Guojie, Jarvis, Erich D., O’Brien, Stephen J., Antunes, Agostinho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27193938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2681-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27193938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2681-7

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