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Gliding and the functional origins of flight: Biomechanical novelty or necessity?

Robert Dudley, Auteur ; Greg Byrnes, Auteur ; Stephen P. Yanoviak, Auteur ; Brendan Borrell, Auteur ; Rafe M. Brown, Auteur ; Jimmy A. McGuire, Auteur

Dans Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (38 2007)

A biomechanically parsimonious hypothesis for the evolution of flapping flight in terrestrial vertebrates suggests progression within an arboreal context from jumping to directed aerial descent, gliding with control via appendicular motions, and[...]

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A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds

Jimmy A. McGuire, Auteur ; Christopher C. Witt, Auteur ; J. V. Remsen, Auteur ; R. Dudley, Auteur ; Douglas L. Altshuler, Auteur

Dans Journal of Ornithology (150(1) JAN 2009)

In the context of a recently published phylogenetic estimate for 151 hummingbird species, we provide an expanded informal taxonomy, as well as a formal phylogenetic taxonomy for Trochilidae that follows the precepts of the PhyloCode, but remains[...]

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