Original paper

Diverse feather shape evolution enabled by coupling anisotropic signalling modules with self-organizing branching programme

Volume: 8, Issue: 1
Published: Jan 20, 2017
Abstract
Adaptation of feathered dinosaurs and Mesozoic birds to new ecological niches was potentiated by rapid diversification of feather vane shapes. The molecular mechanism driving this spectacular process remains unclear. Here, through morphology analysis, transcriptome profiling, functional perturbations and mathematical simulations, we find that mesenchyme-derived GDF10 and GREM1 are major controllers for the topologies of rachidial and barb...
Paper Details
Title
Diverse feather shape evolution enabled by coupling anisotropic signalling modules with self-organizing branching programme
Published Date
Jan 20, 2017
Volume
8
Issue
1
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