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Convergent evolution in dippers (Aves, Cinclidae): The only wing‐propelled diving songbirds

Of the more than 6,000 members of the most speciose avian clade, Passeriformes (perching birds), only the five species of dippers (Cinclidae, Cinclus) use their wings to swim underwater. Among nonpasserine wing‐propelled divers (alcids, diving petrels, penguins, and plotopterids), convergent evoluti...

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Autores principales: Smith, N. Adam, Koeller, Krista L., Clarke, Julia A., Ksepka, Daniel T., Mitchell, Jonathan S., Nabavizadeh, Ali, Ridgley, Ryan C., Witmer, Lawrence M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9298897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34813153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.24820