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A Phylogeny of Birds Based on Over 1,500 Loci Collected by Target Enrichment and High-Throughput Sequencing

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From extant to extinct: locomotor ontogeny and the evolution of avian flight

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Measured motion: searching for simplicity in spinal locomotor networks

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