Paleogenomics Of Pterosaurs And The Evolution Of Small Genome Size In Flying Vertebrates

Paleogenomics Of Pterosaurs And The Evolution Of Small Genome Size In Flying Vertebrates The two living groups of flying vertebrates, birds and bats, 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-million years before birds and were the first group of vertebrates to evolve powered flight.

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Filed under: Veterinary on October 27th, 2008