Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Xu, Xing1; Zheng, Xiaoting2; You, Hailu3; xingxu@vip.sina.com |
| 刊名 | NATURE
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| 出版日期 | 2010-04-29 |
| 卷号 | 464期号:7293页码:1338-1341 |
| 关键词 | Evolutionary Origin China Birds Diversification Morphogenesis Theropod |
| ISSN号 | 0028-0836 |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 英文摘要 | Recent discoveries of feathered dinosaur specimens have greatly improved our understanding of the origin and early evolution of feathers, but little information is available on the ontogenetic development of early feathers(1-7). Here we describe an early-juvenile specimen and a late-juvenile specimen, both referable to the oviraptorosaur Similicaudipteryx(8), recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China(9). The two specimens have strikingly different remiges and rectrices, suggesting that a radical morphological change occurred during feather development, as is the case for modern feathers(10). However, both the remiges and the rectrices are proximally ribbon-like in the younger specimen but fully pennaceous in the older specimen, a pattern not known in any modern bird(10). In combination with the wide distribution of proximally ribbon-like pennaceous feathers and elongate broad filamentous feathers among extinct theropods, this find suggests that early feathers were developmentally more diverse than modern ones and that some developmental features, and the resultant morphotypes, have been lost in feather evolution. |
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| WOS关键词 | EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN ; CHINA ; BIRDS ; DIVERSIFICATION ; MORPHOGENESIS ; THEROPOD |
| WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000277149000044 |
| 公开日期 | 2013-11-27 |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4576]  |
| 专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1 |
| 通讯作者 | xingxu@vip.sina.com |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Shandong Tianyu Museum Nat, Pingyi 273300, Shandong, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Geol Sci, Inst Geol, Beijing 100037, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xu, Xing,Zheng, Xiaoting,You, Hailu,et al. Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers[J]. NATURE,2010,464(7293):1338-1341. |
| APA | Xu, Xing,Zheng, Xiaoting,You, Hailu,&xingxu@vip.sina.com.(2010).Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers.NATURE,464(7293),1338-1341. |
| MLA | Xu, Xing,et al."Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers".NATURE 464.7293(2010):1338-1341. |
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