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

Microbodies associated with feathers of both nonavian dinosaurs and early birds were first identified as bacteria but have been reinterpreted as melanosomes. Whereas melanosomes in modern feathers are always surrounded by and embedded in keratin, melanosomes embedded in keratin in fossils has not be...

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Publicat a:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Autors principals: Pan, Yanhong, Zheng, Wenxia, Moyer, Alison E., O’Connor, Jingmai K., Wang, Min, Zheng, Xiaoting, Wang, Xiaoli, Schroeter, Elena R., Zhou, Zhonghe, Schweitzer, Mary H.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: National Academy of Sciences 2016
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5150402/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27872291
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617168113
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