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DNA Reveals Why Birds Don't Have Teeth

机译:DNA揭示了为什么鸟类没有牙齿

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Birds are known to have evolved from dinosaurs. The earliest known ancestor of birds - the Archaeopteryx - lived about 150 million years ago and is considered a transitional species between dinosaurs and birds. Although the Archaeopteryx had wings, it also had jaws with sharp teeth, but modern birds do not. Evolutionary biologists have long struggled to find out how the lack of teeth came about, and new genetic data may have finally provided the answer: mutant tooth genes. Interestingly, the researchers found, the loss of teeth was not sudden, but gradual. Fossils younger than that of the Archaeopteryx revealed animals with partial beaks, but with teeth in the back of the jaw, meaning that teeth disappeared over a period of time, as the beak evolved in birds (Science, 12 December 2014 | doi: 10.1126/ science. 1254390).
机译:鸟类是从恐龙进化而来的。最早的鸟类始祖鸟始祖鸟大约生活于1.5亿年前,被认为是恐龙和鸟类之间的过渡物种。尽管始祖鸟有翅膀,但颚也有锋利的牙齿,但现代鸟类却没有。进化生物学家长期以来一直在努力寻找缺乏牙齿的原因,而新的遗传数据可能最终提供了答案:突变的牙齿基因。研究人员发现,有趣的是,牙齿脱落不是突然的,而是逐渐的。比始祖鸟还年轻的化石显示出动物的喙具部分喙,但颚的后部有牙齿,这意味着随着喙在鸟类中的进化,牙齿在一段时间内消失了(科学,2014年12月12日| doi:10.1126 /科学(2543390)。

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    《Science and Culture》 |2015年第8期|211-212|共2页
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    Biman Basu;

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