Wing Shapes (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Wing Shapes

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Samples of the dorsal (middle column) and ventral (left column) sides of wings from bird specimens analyzed by the researchers. The right column depicts a consensus wing shape generated by analyzing the wing shape of 105 bird taxon (figure f), a figure depicting how various wing shapes differed from the consensus wing (figure g), and the magnitude of variation across different parts of the consensus wing ( figure h).

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Xia Wang.

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