Scaling of avian primary feather length.

The evolution of the avian wing has long fascinated biologists, yet almost no work includes the length of primary feathers in consideration of overall wing length variation. Here we show that the length of the longest primary feather (f(prim)) contributing to overall wing length scales with negative...

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Auteurs principaux: Robert L Nudds, Gary W Kaiser, Gareth J Dyke
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/c61032c04e04425290786dcd861c4574
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