Rubega Lab Review Article Portal

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Anatomy & histology

Cane & Spearman 1967. A Histochemical study of keratinization in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) (From ILL: cane&spearman1967.pdf) Lönnberg E. 1904. On the homologies of the different pieces of the compound rhamphotheca of birds. Arkiv för Zoologi 1:479–512.

Jollie MT. 1957. The head skeleton of the chicken and remarks on the anatomy of this region in other birds. Journal of Morphology 100:389–436. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/109916988/PDFSTART

Kingsbury JW, Allen VG, Rotheram BG. 1953. The histological structure of the beak in the chick. The Anatomical Record 116:95–115.<DO NOT HAVE>

Stettenheim P. 1972. The integument of birds. In: Farner DS, King JR, editors. Avian Biology. New York: Academic Press. p 1-63. <available from lab library>

Spearman, R. I. C. 1966. The keratinization of epidermal scales, feathers, and hair. Biol. Rev. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 41: 59-96.<DO NOT HAVE>

Post-hatching growth

Gosler AG. 1987. Pattern and process in bill morphology of the Great Tit Parus major. Ibis 129:451-479. <available from lab library>

Badyaev AV, Martin TE. 2000. Individual variation in growth trajectories: Phenotypic and genetic correlations in ontogeny of the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13(2):290-301.

Grant, P.R. 1981. Patterns of growth in Darwin's Finches. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 212: 403±432.

Boag, P.T. 1984. Growth and allometry of external morphology in Darwin's finches (Geospiza) on Isla Daphne Major, Galapagos. J. Zool. 204: 413±441.

Björklund, M. 1993. Phenotypic variation of growth trajectories in finches. Evolution 47: 1506-1514. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2410163.pdf

Ricklefs, R.E. 1968. Patterns of growth in birds. Ibis 110: 419±451.

O'Connor, R.J. 1977. Differential growth and body composition in altricial passerines. Ibis 119: 147-166.

Bill wear & regrowth

HULSCHER, J. B. (1985). Growth and abrasion of the oystercatcher bill in relation to dietary switches. - Neth. J. Zool. 35, p. 124-154.

SWENNEN, C., BRUYN, L. L. M. DE, DUIVEN, P., LEOPOLD, M. F. & MARTEIJN, E. C. L. (1983). Differences in bill form of the oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus; a dynamic adaptation to specific foraging techniques. - Neth. J. Sea Res. 17, p. 57-83.

Beak development

Grant PR, Grant BR, Abzhanov A. 2006. A developing paradigm for the development of bird beaks. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 88:17-22.

Hamburger V, Hamilton HL. 1951. A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo. Journal of Morphology 88:49–92.

Tonégawa Y. 1973. Inductive tissue interactions in the beak of a chick embryo. Development, Growth, and Differentiation 15:57–71.

Bartels T, Flachsbarth MF. 1994. Rasterelektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung des vogelschnabels. Zoologischer Anzeiger 232:97–110.

Starck, J.M. 1998. Structural variants and invariants in avian embryonic and postnatal development. Avian Growth and Development (J. M. Starck & R. E. Ricklefs, eds), pp. 59±88. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

van Noordwijk, A.J. & Marks, H.L. 1998. Genetic aspects of growth. In: Avian Growth and Development (J. M. Starck & R. E. Ricklefs, eds), pp. 305±323. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Abzhanov A, Kuo WP, Hartman C, Grant BR, Grant PR, Tabin CJ. 2006. The calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak morphology in Darwin's finches. Nature (London) 442:563-567.

Abzhanov A, Protas M, Grant BR, Grant PR, Tabin CJ. 2004. Bmp4 and morphological variation of beaks in Darwin's Finches. Science (Washington, D C, 1883-) 305:1462-1465.

Abzhanov A, Rodda SJ, McMahon AP, Tabin CJ. 2007. Regulation of skeletogenic differentiation in cranial dermal bone. Develpoment 134:3133-3144.

Wu P, Jiang T-X, Shen J-Y, Widelitz RB, Chuong C-M. 2006. Morphoregulation of avian beaks: comparative mapping of growth zone activities and morphological evolution. Developmental Dynamics 235:1400-1412.

Wu P, Jiang T-X, Suksaweang S, Widelitz RB, Chuong C-M. 2004. Molecular shaping of the beak. Science 305:1465-1466.

Miscellaneous

Hieronymus, Tobin L. 2009. Osteological Correlates of Cephalic Skin Structures in Amniota: Documenting the Evolution of Display and Feeding Structures with Fossil Data. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University