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Loss of flight in the Galapagos cormorant mirrors human skeletal ciliopathies

2016-07-02

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Changes in the size and proportion of limbs and other structures have played a key role in the adaptive evolution of species. However, despite the ubiquity of these modifications, we have a very limited idea of how these changes occur on the genetic and molecular levels. To fill this gap, we studied a recent and extreme case of wing and pectoral skeleton size reduction leading to flightlessness in the Galapagos co...

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Literature Corpus work: 0cdd31fc-a562-56aa-9bea-3ea852529561
DOI: 10.1101/061432

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