DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: Bonemaking Protein Shapes Beaks of Darwin's Finches

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Science 3 September 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5689, p. 1383
DOI: 10.1126/science.305.5689.1383

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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Bonemaking Protein Shapes Beaks of Darwin's Finches

Elizabeth Pennisi

Two research teams reporting on pages 1462 and 1465 have discovered that a protein normally associated with the development of the skull and other bones is one of the molecules that tailors the shapes of beaks.

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REPORTS Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches: Arhat Abzhanov, Meredith Protas, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, and Clifford J. Tabin (3 September 2004)
Science 305 (5689), 1462. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1098095]
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REPORTS Molecular Shaping of the Beak: Ping Wu, Ting-Xin Jiang, Sanong Suksaweang, Randall Bruce Widelitz, and Cheng-Ming Chuong (3 September 2004)
Science 305 (5689), 1465. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1098109]
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