The early origin of feathers

dc.contributor.authorBenton, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorDhouailly, Danielle
dc.contributor.authorJiang, Baoyu
dc.contributor.authorMcNamara, Maria E.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-18T15:45:29Z
dc.date.available2019-06-18T15:45:29Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-01
dc.description.abstractFeathers have long been regarded as the innovation that drove the success of birds. However, feathers have been reported from close dinosaurian relatives of birds, and now from ornithischian dinosaurs and pterosaurs, the cousins of dinosaurs. Incomplete preservation makes these reports controversial. If true, these findings shift the origin of feathers back 80 million years before the origin of birds. Gene regulatory networks show the deep homology of scales, feathers, and hairs. Hair and feathers likely evolved in the Early Triassic ancestors of mammals and birds, at a time when synapsids and archosaurs show independent evidence of higher metabolic rates (erect gait and endothermy), as part of a major resetting of terrestrial ecosystems following the devastating end-Permian mass extinction.en
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dc.identifier.citationBenton, M. J., Dhouailly, D., Jiang, B. and McNamara, M. (2019) 'The Early Origin of Feathers', Trends in Ecology & Evolution, In Press, doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.018en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.018en
dc.identifier.endpage14en
dc.identifier.issn0169-5347
dc.identifier.journaltitleTrends in Ecology & Evolutionen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8068
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534719301405
dc.rights© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenseen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFeatheren
dc.subjectBirdsen
dc.subjectDinosaursen
dc.subjectPterosaursen
dc.subjectCBPsen
dc.subjectGene regulatory networken
dc.titleThe early origin of feathersen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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