Closest relatives found for pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates
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Palaeogenomics of pterosaurs and the evolution of small genome size in flying vertebrates.
The two living groups of flying vertebrates, birds and bats, both have constricted genome sizes compared with their close relatives. But nothing is known about the genomic characteristics of pterosaurs, which took to the air over 70 Myr before birds and were the first group of vertebrates to evolve powered flight. Here, we estimate genome size for four species of pterosaurs and seven species of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-03420-z