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A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the lower cretaceous of ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 484:92-5. 2012..Most significantly, Y. huali bears long filamentous feathers, thus providing direct evidence for the presence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs and offering new insights into early feather evolution...
A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsusXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, People s Republic of China
Naturwissenschaften 92:173-7. 2005..The long metatarsus feathers are likely primitive for Eumaniraptora and might have played an important role in the origin of avian flight...
A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 439:715-8. 2006....
A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologiesXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 459:940-4. 2009..The transition to tetanurans involved complex changes in the hand including a shift in digit identities, with ceratosaurs displaying an intermediate condition...
A new feather type in a nonavian theropod and the early evolution of feathersXing Xu
Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:832-4. 2009....
Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathersXing Xu
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 464:1338-41. 2010....
A new leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and its implications for neoceratopsian evolutionXing Xu
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
PLoS ONE 5:e13835. 2010..However, recent discoveries and phylogenetic analyses have led to the recognition of a new speciose clade, the Leptoceratopsidae, which is predominantly known from the Upper Cretaceous of North America...
An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of AvialaeXing Xu
College of Life Science, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi City, Shandong 276005, China
Nature 475:465-70. 2011..If this new phylogenetic hypothesis can be confirmed by further investigation, current assumptions regarding the avialan ancestral condition will need to be re-evaluated...
A short-armed troodontid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and its implications for troodontid evolutionXing Xu
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
PLoS ONE 6:e22916. 2011..Although troodontids have been known for over 150 years, few known derived troodontid specimens preserve significant portions of both the forelimb and the hindlimb...
Recent advances in Chinese palaeontologyXing Xu
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, People s Republic of China
Proc Biol Sci 277:161-4. 2010..These works on new Chinese fossils have covered the whole range of the diversity through the entire Phanerozoic fossil record...
The extent of the preserved feathers on the four-winged dinosaur Microraptor gui under ultraviolet lightDavid W E Hone
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
PLoS ONE 5:e9223. 2010..This taxon has important implications for the origin of flight in birds and the possibility of a four-winged gliding phase...
Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroidsXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 431:680-4. 2004..One of the specimens also preserves a filamentous integumentary covering similar to that of other coelurosaurian theropods from western Liaoning. This provides the first direct fossil evidence that tyrannosauroids had protofeathers...
A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 447:844-7. 2007..Most significantly, the gigantic Gigantoraptor shows many bird-like features absent in its smaller oviraptorosaurian relatives, unlike the evolutionary trend seen in many other coelurosaurian subgroups...
Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birdsFucheng Zhang
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 463:1075-8. 2010....
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathersFucheng Zhang
Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 455:1105-8. 2008....
Hind wings in Basal birds and the evolution of leg feathersXiaoting Zheng
Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi City, Shandong, China
Science 339:1309-12. 2013....
Four-winged dinosaurs from ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P O Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 421:335-40. 2003..The new discovery conforms to the predictions of early hypotheses that proavians passed through a tetrapteryx stage...
The asymmetry of the carpal joint and the evolution of wing folding in maniraptoran theropod dinosaursCorwin Sullivan
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People s Republic of China
Proc Biol Sci 277:2027-33. 2010..Carpal asymmetry would have permitted avian-like folding of the forelimb in order to protect the plumage, an early advantage of the flexible, asymmetric wrist inherited by birds...
A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 415:780-4. 2002..The discovery of Sinovenator and the examination of character distributions along the maniraptoran lineage indicate that principal structural modifications toward avians were acquired in the early stages of maniraptoran evolution...
A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of CeratopsiaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China
Nature 416:314-7. 2002..This new taxon demonstrates that some neoceratopsian characters evolved in a more incremental fashion than previously known and also implies mosaic evolution of characters early in ceratopsian history...
An unusual oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from ChinaXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 419:291-3. 2002..The new discovery provides a case of convergent evolution and demonstrates that non-avian theropods were much more diverse ecologically than previously suspected...
A monodactyl nonavian dinosaur and the complex evolution of the alvarezsauroid handXing Xu
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:2338-42. 2011....
Additional specimen of Microraptor provides unique evidence of dinosaurs preying on birdsJingmai O'Connor
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:19662-5. 2011....
A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping postureXing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
Nature 431:838-41. 2004..Evidence of this behaviour outside of the crown group Aves further demonstrates that many bird features occurred early in dinosaurian evolution...
A juvenile coelurosaurian theropod from China indicates arboreal habitsFucheng Zhang
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Naturwissenschaften 89:394-8. 2002..Electronic Supplementary Material is available if you access this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-002-0353-8. On that page (frame on the left side), a link takes you directly to the supplementary material...
Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climatesRomain Amiot
Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xi Zhi Men Wai DaJie, Beijing 100044, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:5179-83. 2011....
Growth patterns in brooding dinosaurs reveals the timing of sexual maturity in non-avian dinosaurs and genesis of the avian conditionGregory M Erickson
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1100, USA
Biol Lett 3:558-61. 2007....
Adaptation to the sky: Defining the feather with integument fossils from mesozoic China and experimental evidence from molecular laboratoriesCheng Ming Chuong
Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 298:42-56. 2003..A model of feather evolution from feather bud --> barbs --> barbules --> rachis is presented, which is opposite to the old view of scale plate --> rachis --> barbs --> barbules (Regal, '75; Q Rev Biol 50:35)...
A Middle Jurassic 'sphenosuchian' from China and the origin of the crocodylian skullJames M Clark
Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
Nature 430:1021-4. 2004..Thus, important features of the modern crocodylian skull evolved during a phase when the postcranial skeleton was evolving towards greater cursoriality, rather than towards their current semi-aquatic habitus...
Palaeontology: scales, feathers and dinosaursXing Xu
Nature 440:287-8. 2006
A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern ChinaXing Xu
Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:2135-40. 2006....
A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of ChinaPi peng Li
Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, People s Republic of China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5507-9. 2007....
An integrated morphological and molecular approach to a new species description in the Trypanosomatidae: the case of Leptomonas podlipaevi n. sp., a parasite of Boisea rubrolineata (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae)Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, New York 1046 USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 53:103-11. 2006..Molecular phylogenetic analysis has demonstrated that the new species is most closely related to Leptomonas seymouri and Leptomonas pyrrhocoris. The analysis has also highlighted the polyphyly of the genus Leptomonas...
Discovery and barcoding by analysis of spliced leader RNA gene sequences of new isolates of Trypanosomatidae from Heteroptera in Costa Rica and EcuadorDmitri A Maslov
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 54:57-65. 2007..Investigations of trypanosomatid diversity, host-specificity, and biogeography have become feasible using the approach described herein...
The cis-regulatory map of Shewanella genomesJiajian Liu
Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid, Box 8232, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 36:5376-90. 2008....
