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believed to have
evolved flightlessness independently multiple times within their own group. Some
birds evolved flightlessness in
response to the absence...
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especially in
dense habitat. Some are also
flightless at some time
during their moult periods.
Flightlessness in
rails is one of the best
examples of parallel...
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about the
evolution of
flightlessness in this group. The
branching of the
tinamous within the
ratite radiation suggests flightlessness evolved independently...
- that the
ibises were
birds of the
forest floor, that
because of
their flightlessness they were
susceptible to
becoming trapped in lava tubes, and that they...
- that
flightlessness evolved independently in each
steamer duck species. The DYRK1A
enzyme has been
identified as a
candidate gene for
flightlessness in...
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recently become flightless allows scientists to
identify specific genes and
reconstruct the
evolutionary steps necessary to
evolve flightlessness with a level...
- The
flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi), also
known as the
Galapagos cormorant, is a
cormorant endemic to the
Galapagos Islands, and an example...
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vicariance during the
breakup of
Gondwana but
instead convergently evolved flightlessness from
ancestors that dis****d more
recently by flying.
Elephant birds...
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densities include low base
metabolic rates,
small clutch sizes, and
flightlessness.
Unlike many
other oceanic islands,
Inaccessible Island has remained...
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Flightless fruit flies (Order Diptera) encomp**** a
variety of
different species of fly, such as
Drosophila melanogaster,
Bactrocera cucurbitae, Bactrocera...
