Systemic distribution of medullary bone in the avian skeleton: ground truthing criteria for the identification of reproductive tissues in extinct Avemetatarsalia

Systemic distribution of medullary bone in the avian skeleton: ground truthing criteria for the identification of reproductive tissues in extinct Avemetatarsalia

Abstract Background Medullary bone (MB) is an estrogen-dependent, sex-specific tissue produced by female birds during lay and inferred to be present in extinct avemetatarsalians (bird-line archosaurs). Although preliminary studies suggest that MB can be deposited within most skeletal elements, these...

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Main Authors: Aurore Canoville, Mary H. Schweitzer, Lindsay E. Zanno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Neornithes
Medullary bone skeletal distribution
Skeletal pneumaticity
Laying cycle
Micro-computed tomography
Chemical staining
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-019-1402-7

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