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Evolution of beak morphology in the Ground Tit revealed by comparative transcriptomics

BACKGROUND: Beak morphology exhibits considerable adaptive plasticity in birds, which results in highly varied or specialized forms in response to variations in ecology and life history. As the only parid species endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Ground Tit (Parus humilis) has evolved a dist...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Yalin, Gao, Bin, Wang, Haitao, Han, Naijian, Shao, Shimiao, Wu, Shaoyuan, Song, Gang, Zhang, Yong E., Zhu, Xiaojia, Lu, Xin, Qu, Yanhua, Lei, Fumin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29299037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0245-6