Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds
文献类型:期刊论文
作者 | McNamara, Maria E.1; Zhang, Fucheng2![]() |
刊名 | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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出版日期 | 2018-05-25 |
卷号 | 9 |
ISSN号 | 2041-1723 |
DOI | 10.1038/s41467-018-04443-x |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | Feathers are remarkable evolutionary innovations that are associated with complex adaptations of the skin in modern birds. Fossilised feathers in non-avian dinosaurs and basal birds provide insights into feather evolution, but how associated integumentary adaptations evolved is unclear. Here we report the discovery of fossil skin, preserved with remarkable nanoscale fidelity, in three non-avian maniraptoran dinosaurs and a basal bird from the Cretaceous Jehol biota (China). The skin comprises patches of desquamating epidermal corneocytes that preserve a cytoskeletal array of helically coiled a-keratin tonofibrils. This structure confirms that basal birds and non-avian dinosaurs shed small epidermal flakes as in modern mammals and birds, but structural differences imply that these Cretaceous taxa had lower body heat production than modern birds. Feathered epidermis acquired many, but not all, anatomically modern attributes close to the base of the Maniraptora by the Middle Jurassic. |
WOS关键词 | SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION ; EPIDERMAL DIFFERENTIATION ; LIPIDS ; KERATINIZATION ; INTEGUMENT ; EVOLUTION ; KERATINS ; REPTILES ; PROTEIN ; EMBRYOS |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000433067600001 |
出版者 | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
资助机构 | European Research Council(ERC-2014-StG-637691-ANICOLEVO) ; Natural Environment Research Council(NE/E011055/1 ; Royal Society ; National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(41125008 ; Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX2-EW-105) ; Linyi University ; Marie Curie Career Integration Grant(FP7-2012-CIG 618598) ; 1027630/1) ; 41688103) |
源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8424] ![]() |
专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
通讯作者 | McNamara, Maria E.; Zhang, Fucheng; Xu, Xing |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Coll Cork, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, North Mall, Cork T23 TK30, Ireland 2.Linyi Univ, Inst Geol & Paleontol, Shuangling Rd, Linyi 276005, Shandong, Peoples R China 3.Univ Bristol, Sch Earth Sci, Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Avon, England 4.Univ Coll Dublin, UCD Sch Earth Sci, Dublin D04 N2E5, Ireland 5.Univ Coll Cork, Dept Anat & Neurosci, Western Rd, Cork T12 XF62, Ireland 6.Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Biol & Chem Sci, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England 7.Open Univ, Sch Phys Sci, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England 8.Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, 142 Xizhimenwai St, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | McNamara, Maria E.,Zhang, Fucheng,Kearns, Stuart L.,et al. Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2018,9. |
APA | McNamara, Maria E..,Zhang, Fucheng.,Kearns, Stuart L..,Orr, Patrick J..,Toulouse, Andre.,...&Zhou, Zhonghe.(2018).Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,9. |
MLA | McNamara, Maria E.,et al."Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 9(2018). |
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来源:古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
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