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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Living dinosaurs
    sub title: the evolutionary history of modern birds
  name:
    name part: Dyke, Gareth.
  name:
    name part: Kaiser, Gary W.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations, maps
  table of contents: Introduction : changing the questions in avian paleontology / Gary Kaiser and Gareth Dyke -- Theropod diversity and the refinement of avian characteristics / Peter J. Makovicky and Lindsay E. Zanno -- Why were there dinosaurs? Why are there birds? / Peter Ward and Robert Berner -- Pre-modern birds : avian divergences in the Mesozoic / Jingmai O'Connor, Luis M. Chiappe, and Alyssa Bell -- Progress and obstacles in the phylogenetics of modern birds / Bradley C. Livezey -- The utility of fossil taxa and the evolution of modern birds : commentary and analysis / Gareth Dyke and Eoin Gardiner -- Penguins past, present, and future : trends in the evolution of the Sphenisciformes / Daniel T. Ksepka and Tatsuro Ando -- Phorusrhacids : the terror birds / Herculano Alvarenga, Luis Chiappe, and Sara Bertelli -- The pseudo-toothed birds (Aves, Odontopterygiformes) and their bearing on the early evolution of modern birds / Estelle Bourdon -- Phylogeny and diversification of modern passerines / F. Keith Barker -- Morphological and behavioral correlates of flapping flight / Bret W. Tobalske ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the avian brain and senses / Stig Walsh and Angela Milner -- Evolving perceptions on the antiquity of the modern avian tree / Joseph W. Brown and M. Van Tuinen -- Major events in avian genome evolution / Chris L. Organ and Scott V. Edwards -- Bird evolution across the K-Pg boundary and the basal neornithine diversification / Bent E.K. Lindow -- Functional and phylogenetic diversity in marine and aquatic birds / Gary Kaiser -- The state of the world's birds and the future of avian diversity / Gavin H. Thomas.
  note: edited by Gareth Dyke and Gary Kaiser.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Birds
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: Paleobiology
  classification: QL677.3 .L58 2011eb
  classification: 598.13/8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Living dinosaurs
    origin info:
      publisher: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
    identifier: (DLC) 2010043277
    identifier: (OCoLC)664324132
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wiley online library
  identifier: 9781119990475 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1119990475 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 10.1002/9781119990475 Wiley InterScience
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DG1
    record creation date: 110609
    record change date: 20190329194130.0
    record identifier: in00002696375
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng