Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers

Remarkably well-preserved soft tissues in Mesozoic fossils have yielded substantial insights into the evolution of feathers(1). New evidence of branched feathers in pterosaurs suggests that feathers originated in the avemetatarsalian ancestor of pterosaurs and dinosaurs in the Early Triassic(2), but...

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Autores principales: Cincotta, Aude, Nicolaï, Michaël, Campos, Hebert Bruno Nascimento, McNamara, Maria, D’Alba, Liliana, Shawkey, Matthew D., Kischlat, Edio-Ernst, Yans, Johan, Carleer, Robert, Escuillié, François, Godefroit, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04622-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04622-3

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