Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird

A unique form of melanosomes contributing to brilliant iridescent colors in modern bird feathers, previously unknown in fossil birds, is identified in the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. The discovery highlights the complexity of plumage color nanostructures utilized early in bird evolution...

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Autores principales: Pan, Yanhong, Li, Zhiheng, Wang, Min, Zhao, Tao, Wang, Xiaoli, Zheng, Xiaoting
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab227
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author Pan, Yanhong
Li, Zhiheng
Wang, Min
Zhao, Tao
Wang, Xiaoli
Zheng, Xiaoting
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description A unique form of melanosomes contributing to brilliant iridescent colors in modern bird feathers, previously unknown in fossil birds, is identified in the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. The discovery highlights the complexity of plumage color nanostructures utilized early in bird evolution as far back as 130 million years ago.
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spelling pubmed-88247052022-02-09 Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird Pan, Yanhong Li, Zhiheng Wang, Min Zhao, Tao Wang, Xiaoli Zheng, Xiaoting Natl Sci Rev Perspective A unique form of melanosomes contributing to brilliant iridescent colors in modern bird feathers, previously unknown in fossil birds, is identified in the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. The discovery highlights the complexity of plumage color nanostructures utilized early in bird evolution as far back as 130 million years ago. Oxford University Press 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8824705/ /pubmed/35145706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab227 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Perspective
Pan, Yanhong
Li, Zhiheng
Wang, Min
Zhao, Tao
Wang, Xiaoli
Zheng, Xiaoting
Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title_full Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title_fullStr Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title_full_unstemmed Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title_short Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird
title_sort unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an early cretaceous bird
topic Perspective
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab227
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