Cryptic patterning of avian skin confers a developmental facility for loss of neck feathering.

Vertebrate skin is characterized by its patterned array of appendages, whether feathers, hairs, or scales. In avian skin the distribution of feathers occurs on two distinct spatial levels. Grouping of feathers within discrete tracts, with bare skin lying between the tracts, is termed the macropatter...

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Auteurs principaux: Chunyan Mou, Frederique Pitel, David Gourichon, Florence Vignoles, Athanasia Tzika, Patricia Tato, Le Yu, Dave W Burt, Bertrand Bed'hom, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Kevin J Painter, Denis J Headon
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/bb1a0b453c83491b99b3b3bab1cf5274
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