Was Gondwanan breakup the cause of the intercontinental distribution of Osteoglossiformes? A time-calibrated phylogenetic test combining molecular, morphological …

S Lavoué - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
The intercontinental distribution of living freshwater osteoglossiform fishes
(Osteoglossomorpha, Teleostei) was hypothesized to predominantly represent the vicariant …

Nocturnal giants: evolution of the sensory ecology in elephant birds and other palaeognaths inferred from digital brain reconstructions

CR Torres, JA Clarke - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The recently extinct Malagasy elephant birds (Palaeognathae, Aepyornithiformes) included
the largest birds that ever lived. Elephant bird neuroanatomy is understudied but can shed …

[HTML][HTML] Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part I—an examination of cancellous bone architecture in the hindlimb bones of theropods

PJ Bishop, SA Hocknull, CJ Clemente, JR Hutchinson… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
This paper is the first of a three-part series that investigates the architecture of cancellous
('spongy') bone in the main hindlimb bones of theropod dinosaurs, and uses cancellous …

Genome stability is in the eye of the beholder: CR1 retrotransposon activity varies significantly across avian diversity

JD Galbraith, RD Kortschak, A Suh… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Since the sequencing of the zebra finch genome it has become clear that avian genomes,
while largely stable in terms of chromosome number and gene synteny, are more dynamic at …

Dinoflagellate fossils: Geological and biological applications

A Penaud, W Hardy, C Lambert, F Marret… - Revue de …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dinoflagellates are part of the marine plankton and about 200 species produce a cyst
(dinocyst) during their life cycle, these organic-walled sexually-produced cysts being …

A well‐resolved transcriptomic phylogeny of the mite harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) reveals signatures of Gondwanan …

CM Baker, SL Boyer, G Giribet - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We explored the extent to which Gondwanan vicariance contributed to the circum‐
Antarctic distribution of the mite harvestman family Pettalidae, a group of small, dispersal …

Parks and reserves in Madagascar: managing biodiversity for a sustainable future

PO Waeber, S Rafanoharana… - … Areas, National Parks …, 2020 - books.google.com
Madagascar has an extended network of over 100 protected areas with various IUCN status
covering more than 10% of terrestrial landscapes and seascapes. The location of these …

Cretaceous origins of the vibrotactile bill-tip organ in birds

CJ Du Toit, A Chinsamy… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Some probe-foraging birds locate their buried prey by detecting mechanical vibrations in the
substrate using a specialized tactile bill-tip organ comprising mechanoreceptors embedded …

Rapid and recent diversification of curassows, guans, and chachalacas (Galliformes: Cracidae) out of Mesoamerica: Phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial, intron …

PA Hosner, EL Braun, RT Kimball - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
The Cracidae (curassows, guans, and chachalacas) include some of the most spectacular
and endangered Neotropical bird species. They lack a comprehensive phylogenetic …

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis of maniraptoran eggshells with important implications for microstructural and taphonomic interpretations

S Choi, S Han, YN Lee - Palaeontology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is a useful tool for gathering crystallographic
information from carbonate biominerals because it maps out the orientation of crystal grains …