Bone histology, phylogeny, and palaeognathous birds (Aves: Palaeognathae) [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014 The presence of a phylogenetic signal in the variation of osteohistological features has been recently debated in the literature. Previous studies have found a significant signal for some features, but these results were obtained on a small amount of characters and a reduced sample.
Lucas J. Legendre +6 more
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Peer Community Journal, 2021 Crown birds are subdivided into two main groups, Palaeognathae and Neognathae, that can be distinguished, among other means, by the organization of the bones in their pterygoidpalatine complex (PPC).
Plateau, Olivia, Foth, Christian
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Ontogenetic scaling patterns and functional anatomy of the pelvic limb musculature in emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) are exclusively terrestrial, bipedal and cursorial ratites with some similar biomechanical characteristics to humans. Their growth rates are impressive, as their body mass increases eighty-fold from hatching to adulthood ...
Luis P. Lamas +2 more
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Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2023 “The present state of knowledge of the Cenozoic birds of Argentina” published in Contributions in Sciences in 1980, written by the argentine paleontologist Eduardo Pedro Tonni, became a must-read for those interested in the record of fossil birds.
Claudia P. Tambussi +2 more
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Analysis of Sex Chromosome Evolution in the Clade Palaeognathae from Phased Genome Assembly. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2021 Abstract Birds in the clade Palaeognathae, excluding Tinamiformes, have morphologically conserved karyotypes and less differentiated ZW sex chromosomes compared with those of other birds. In particular, the sex chromosomes of the ostrich and emu have exceptionally large recombining pseudoautosomal regions (PARs), whereas non-PARs are ...
Okuno M, Mizushima S, Kuroiwa A, Itoh T.
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New Comparative Data on the Long Bone Microstructure of Large Extant and Extinct Flightless Birds
Diversity, 2022 Here, we investigate whether bone microanatomy can be used to infer the locomotion mode (cursorial vs. graviportal) of large terrestrial birds. We also reexamine, or describe for the first time, the bone histology of several large extant and extinct ...
Aurore Canoville +2 more
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Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II. [PDF]
Genome Biol EvolMinias P, Babik W.
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Whole Genome Analysis of the Red-Crowned Crane Provides Insight into Avian Longevity [PDF]
, 2020 The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) is an endangered, large-bodied crane native to East Asia. It is a traditional symbol of longevity and its long lifespan has been confirmed both in captivity and in the wild.
Bhak, Jong +14 more
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Comparative genomic data of the Avian Phylogenomics Projects [PDF]
, 2014 The evolutionary relationships of modern birds are among the most challenging to understand in systematic biology and have been debated for centuries.
Avian Genome Consortium +7 more
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The serine/threonine kinase 33 is present and expressed in palaeognath birds but has become a unitary pseudogene in neognaths about 100 million years ago [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Serine/threonine kinase 33 (STK33) has been shown to be conserved across all major vertebrate classes including reptiles, mammals, amphibians and fish, suggesting its importance within vertebrates. It has been shown to phosphorylate vimentin
Daniel Schäfer +3 more
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