An integrative approach to understanding bird origins

Dkk2/Frzb in the dermal papillae regulates feather regeneration

(2014) Qiqi Chu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers

(2014) Christian Foth et al.   NATURE

Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs

(2014) Quanguo Li et al.   NATURE

Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Feathered Dinosaur Measured Using Physical Models. Effects of Form on Static Stability and Control Effectiveness

(2014) Dennis Evangelista et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales

(2014) P. Godefroit et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Bird origins anew

(2013) Alan Feduccia   AUK

Evolution of parental incubation behaviour in dinosaurs cannot be inferred from clutch mass in birds

(2013) G. F. Birchard et al.   Biology Letters

Tracing the Evolution of Avian Wing Digits

(2013) Xing Xu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Digit loss in archosaur evolution and the interplay between selection and constraints

(2013) Merijn A. G. de Bakker et al.   NATURE

Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains

(2013) Robert R. Reisz et al.   NATURE

Preservation of ovarian follicles reveals early evolution of avian reproductive behaviour

(2013) Xiaoting Zheng et al.   NATURE

Linking the evolution of body shape and locomotor biomechanics in bird-line archosaurs

(2013) Vivian Allen et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary origins of the avian brain

(2013) Amy M. Balanoff et al.   NATURE

A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds

(2013) Pascal Godefroit et al.   NATURE

Porosity and water vapor conductance of two Troodon formosus eggs: an assessment of incubation strategy in a maniraptoran dinosaur

(2013) David J. Varricchio et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates

(2013) Nathan P. Myhrvold   PLoS One

Unique caudal plumage of Jeholornis and complex tail evolution in early birds

(2013) J. O'Connor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hind Wings in Basal Birds and the Evolution of Leg Feathers

(2013) X. Zheng et al.   SCIENCE

Topology of Feather Melanocyte Progenitor Niche Allows Complex Pigment Patterns to Emerge

(2013) S. J. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Pulmonary anatomy in the Nile crocodile and the evolution of unidirectional airflow in Archosauria

(2013) Emma R. Schachner et al.   PeerJ

A Review of Dromaeosaurid Systematics and Paravian Phylogeny

(2012) Alan H. Turner et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Primitive Wing Feather Arrangement in Archaeopteryx lithographica and Anchiornis huxleyi

(2012) Nicholas R. Longrich et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sprouty/FGF signaling regulates the proximal–distal feather morphology and the size of dermal papillae

(2012) Zhicao Yue et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

(2012) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   NATURE

A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, south-central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain

(2012) NIEVES LÓPEZ-MARTÍNEZ et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Physiological Regeneration of Skin Appendages and Implications for Regenerative Medicine

(2012) Cheng-Ming Chuong et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

New Specimens of Nemegtomaia from the Baruungoyot and Nemegt Formations (Late Cretaceous) of Mongolia

(2012) Federico Fanti et al.   PLoS One

New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail

(2012) Phil Senter et al.   PLoS One

Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany

(2012) O. W. M. Rauhut et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Feathered Non-Avian Dinosaurs from North America Provide Insight into Wing Origins

(2012) D. K. Zelenitsky et al.   SCIENCE

Reconstruction ofMicroraptorand the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

(2012) Quanguo Li et al.   SCIENCE

Thermogenesis, muscle hyperplasia, and the origin of birds

(2011) Stuart A. Newman   BIOESSAYS

A wing-assisted running robot and implications for avian flight evolution

(2011) K Peterson et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Air-filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’-bird transition

(2011) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs

(2011) Federico L. Agnolin et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

From buds to follicles: Matrix metalloproteinases in developmental tissue remodeling during feather morphogenesis

(2011) Ting-Xin Jiang et al.   DIFFERENTIATION

Transcriptomic analysis of avian digits reveals conserved and derived digit identities in birds

(2011) Zhe Wang et al.   NATURE

An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae

(2011) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Embryological Evidence Identifies Wing Digits in Birds as Digits 1, 2, and 3

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   SCIENCE

A Diverse Assemblage of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Bird Feathers from Canadian Amber

(2011) R. C. McKellar et al.   SCIENCE

Insights into bird wing evolution and digit specification from polarizing region fate maps

(2011) Matthew Towers et al.   Nature Communications

Pre-Archaeopteryx coelurosaurian dinosaurs and their implications for understanding avian origins

(2010) Xing Xu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain

(2010) Francisco Ortega et al.   NATURE

Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers

(2010) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

(2010) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Unidirectional Airflow in the Lungs of Alligators

(2010) C. G. Farmer et al.   SCIENCE

A Basal Alvarezsauroid Theropod from the Early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China

(2010) J. N. Choiniere et al.   SCIENCE

A study of a Troodon egg containing embryonic remains using epifluorescence microscopy and other techniques

(2009) Frankie D. Jackson et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

(2009) Xiao-Ting Zheng et al.   NATURE

A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies

(2009) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

(2009) Dongyu Hu et al.   NATURE

Cladistics and the Origin of Birds: A Review and Two New Analyses

(2009) Frances C. James et al.   ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx

(2009) Gregory M. Erickson et al.   PLoS One

Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the Campanian Hadrosaur B. canadensis

(2009) M. H. Schweitzer et al.   SCIENCE

Uncoupling Sonic Hedgehog Control of Pattern and Expansion of the Developing Limb Bud

(2008) Jianjian Zhu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

(2008) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF MANIRAPTORAN THEROPODS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EGG PARATAXONOMY

(2008) DARLA K. ZELENITSKY et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina

(2008) Paul C. Sereno et al.   PLoS One

The Evolution of HoxD-11 Expression in the Bird Wing: Insights from Alligator mississippiensis

(2008) Alexander O. Vargas et al.   PLoS One

Avian Paternal Care Had Dinosaur Origin

(2008) David J. Varricchio et al.   SCIENCE

A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin

(2008) Xing Xu et al.   Science Bulletin