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Published: 10 December 2022
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Journal articles on the topic "Dinornithidae"

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Zelenitsky, Darla K., and Sean P. Modesto. "New information on the eggshell of ratites (Aves) and its phylogenetic implications." Canadian Journal of Zoology 81, no. 6 (June 1, 2003): 962–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z03-076.

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A reappraisal of the eggshell of ratites clarifies aspects of its microstructure and ultrastructure. The phylogenetic usefulness of the eggshell data, consisting of discrete characters, is assessed using eggshell characters alone and by adding the eggshell characters to a data matrix from the literature based on skeletal characters. The resultant tree from the eggshell data alone yields Apteryx as the most basal ratite, dinornithids as the sister taxon of a clade of large living ratites, with Casuarius and Dromaius in a sister-group relationship. The combined eggshell and skeletal analysis revealed most groupings within Ratitae that were based on previous cladistic analysis of the skeletal characters alone, but also supports two equally parsimonious topologies: one identifies Dinornithidae and Apteryx as a clade at the base of Ratitae, and the other identifies Apteryx as the sister taxon of a clade consisting of all the other ratites. It is determined that the characteristics used to define the improperly named "ratite morphotype" in the current eggshell parataxonomy are not synapomorphies of the eggshell of Ratitae. An expanded cladistic analysis of the eggshells of avian and non-avian theropods is required to determine the phylogenetic usefulness of the characteristics of the ratite morphotype.
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HAAST, JULIUS VON. "VIII. On Dinornis oweni, a new Species of the Dinornithidae, with some Remarks on D. curtus." Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 12, no. 5 (July 7, 2010): 171–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1886.tb00011.x.

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Cleland, Timothy P., Elena R. Schroeter, and Mary H. Schweitzer. "Biologically and diagenetically derived peptide modifications in moa collagens." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1808 (June 7, 2015): 20150015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0015.

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The modifications that occur on proteins in natural environments over time are not well studied, yet characterizing them is vital to correctly interpret sequence data recovered from fossils. The recently extinct moa (Dinornithidae) is an excellent candidate for investigating the preservation of proteins, their post-translational modifications (PTMs) and diagenetic alterations during degradation. Moa protein extracts were analysed using mass spectrometry, and peptides from collagen I, collagen II and collagen V were identified. We also identified biologically derived PTMs (i.e. methylation, di-methylation, alkylation, hydroxylation, fucosylation) on amino acids at locations consistent with extant proteins. In addition to these in vivo modifications, we detected novel modifications that are probably diagenetically derived. These include loss of hydroxylation/glutamic semialdehyde, carboxymethyllysine and peptide backbone cleavage, as well as previously noted deamidation. Moa collagen sequences and modifications provide a baseline by which to evaluate proteomic studies of other fossils, and a framework for defining the molecular relationship of moa to other closely related taxa.
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Bourdon, Estelle, Jacques Castanet, Armand de Ricqlès, Paul Scofield, Alan Tennyson, Hayat Lamrous, and Jorge Cubo. "Bone growth marks reveal protracted growth in New Zealand kiwi (Aves, Apterygidae)." Biology Letters 5, no. 5 (June 10, 2009): 639–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0310.

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The presence of bone growth marks reflecting annual rhythms in the cortical bone of non-avian tetrapods is now established as a general phenomenon. In contrast, ornithurines (the theropod group including modern birds and their closest relatives) usually grow rapidly in less than a year, such that no annual rhythms are expressed in bone cortices, except scarce growth marks restricted to the outer cortical layer. So far, cyclical growth in modern birds has been restricted to the Eocene Diatryma , the extant parrot Amazona amazonica and the extinct New Zealand (NZ) moa (Dinornithidae). Here we show the presence of lines of arrested growth in the long bones of the living NZ kiwi ( Apteryx spp., Apterygidae). Kiwis take 5–6 years to reach full adult body size, which indicates a delayed maturity and a slow reproductive cycle. Protracted growth probably evolved convergently in moa and kiwi sometime since the Middle Miocene, owing to the severe climatic cooling in the southwest Pacific and the absence of mammalian predators.
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Bravo, Ana María, Alfonso Yébenes, and Hugo Martín Abad. "Cáscaras de huevo de tipo Aepyornis del Mioceno Superior de Alicante (España). Aproximación filogenética." Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 24, no. 1 (February 12, 2021): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/sjp.24.1.20343.

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El yacimiento de Torrellano (Mioceno Superior, provincia de Alicante) ha proporcionado cientos de fragmentos de cáscara de tipo básico ornitoide, caracterizadas fundamentalmente por su gran grosor y por presentar los poros en el interior de hendiduras alargadas. Se han encontrado cáscaras de estructura similar en numerosos yacimientos del Terciario y Cuaternario de Asia, África y Europa. En todos los casos se ha establecido su semejanza con las cáscaras de la extinta ratite gigante Aepyornis maximus (Aepyornithidae). Se describen las cáscaras del nuevo yacimiento de Torrellano y se comparan con material similar. Algunos de los caracteres descritos han sido utilizados para realizar un análisis cladístico junto con ratites actuales (Struthio, Rhea, Apteryx, Dromaius, Casuarius), el género Tinamus, y material fósil (Diamantornis wardi, Diamantornis corbetti y Dinornithidae). El cladograma obtenido a partir de los datos de ratites actuales corrobora trabajos previos y muestra que los caracteres de las cáscaras están relacionados con la filogenia y son, por tanto, útiles para establecer hipótesis de parentesco. En este caso, el material de Torrellano, queda incluido dentro del crown group de ratites, aunque formando parte de una politomía que no puede resolverse con los caracteres empleados. Por otro lado, Struthio aparece como grupo hermano de los parataxones D. wardi y D. corbetti, lo cual podría confirmar las hipótesis existentes sobre la posible relación de estos parataxones con la familia Struthionidae.
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Brassey, Charlotte A., Richard N. Holdaway, Abigail G. Packham, Jennifer Anné, Philip L. Manning, and William I. Sellers. "More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)." PLoS ONE 8, no. 12 (December 18, 2013): e82668. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082668.

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Parker, T. Jefeery. "XV. On the Cranial Osteology, Classification, and Phytogeny of the Dinornithidse." Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 13, no. 10 (July 7, 2010): 373–431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1895.tb00044.x.

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