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Skeletal variation in bird domestication: limb proportions and sternum in chicken, with comparisons to mallard ducks and Muscovy ducks

BACKGROUND: Domestication, including selective breeding, can lead to morphological changes of biomechanical relevance. In birds, limb proportions and sternum characteristics are of great importance and have been studied in the past for their relation with flight, terrestrial locomotion and animal we...

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Autores principales: Herrera-Castillo, Carlos Manuel, Geiger, Madeleine, Núñez-León, Daniel, Nagashima, Hiroshi, Gebhardt-Henrich, Sabine, Toscano, Michael, Sanchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9055999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502208
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13229