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SUBMITTER: Barrett PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4528472 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barrett Paul M PM Evans David C DC Campione Nicolás E NE
Biology letters 20150601 6
Spectacularly preserved non-avian dinosaurs with integumentary filaments/feathers have revolutionized dinosaur studies and fostered the suggestion that the dinosaur common ancestor possessed complex integumentary structures homologous to feathers. This hypothesis has major implications for interpreting dinosaur biology, but has not been tested rigorously. Using a comprehensive database of dinosaur skin traces, we apply maximum-likelihood methods to reconstruct the phylogenetic distribution of ep ...[more]