Preservation of feather fibers from the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti raises concern about immunohistochemical analyses on fossils

ET Saitta, I Fletcher, P Martin, M Pittman, TG Kaye… - Organic …, 2018 - Elsevier
fibers from a Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti … would suggest long polypeptide
preservation allowing for sequencing … We reanalyzed a Shuvuuia fiber using focused ion beam …

Beta‐keratin specific immunological reactivity in feather‐like structures of the Cretaceous Alvarezsaurid, Shuvuuia deserti

MH Schweitzer, JA Watt, R Avci… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… -preserved skeleton of the alvarezsaurid Shuvuuia deserti (… at six localities throughout Late
Cretaceous sediments of the … suggest that the antiserum raised against avian beta keratins …

Feathered dinosaurs

MA Norell, X Xu - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2005 - annualreviews.org
… specimens to be preserved. Many dinosaur specimens that preserve feathers and other types
… These fossils show a progression of integumentary types from simple fibers to feathers of …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on the evidence for keratin protein preservation in fossils: An issue of replication versus validation

ET Saitta, J Vinther - 2019 - palaeo-electronica.org
… structural preservation of the treatment 2 experimental feathers (… fibres associated with this
specimen of the dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti … If fossil feathers such as the fibers of Shuvuuia are …

Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record

MH Schweitzer, M Marshall… - … Complete Dinosaur …, 2012 - books.google.com
… We incubated sections of the Shuvuuia fibers using the same … preservation in a new vertebrate
assemblage from the Late … evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Science …

A diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and bird feathers from Canadian amber

RC McKellar, BDE Chatterton, AP Wolfe, PJ Currie - Science, 2011 - science.org
… -entombed feathers because preservation is biased toward featherfeathers, subcomponents
of feathers, feathers that are molted frequently, and feathers in body positions that increase

[PDF][PDF] Feather evolution: Looking up close and through deep time

X Xu - Science bulletin, 2019 - ivpp.cas.cn
… the absence of (preserved) feathers in these dinosaurs could be the … The absence of feather
b-keratins in Shuvuuia also is unusual … Preservation of feather fibers from the late cretaceous

The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils

Y Pan, W Zheng, RH Sawyer… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Cretaceous Shuvuuia deserti (a nonavian dinosaur) and claw sheath material from the Late
Cretaceous Citipati (a nonavian dinosaur… keratins were preserved in the Anchiornis feathers, …

Molecular evidence of keratin and melanosomes in feathers of the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis

Y Pan, W Zheng, AE Moyer… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… associated with feathers of both nonavian dinosaurs and … (Gallus gallus) feathers and
to preserved feathers of a new … ), we show that antibodies raised against feather proteins (28) …

[PDF][PDF] The taphonomy of keratin in archosaurs

ET Saitta - Published Thesis, School of Earth Sciences, University …, 2015 - researchgate.net
… -avian dinosaur fossils with preserved feathers and filaments … Shuvuuia from the Late
Cretaceous using modern duck … been found on feather plumage and wool fibers (Carruthers and …