Richard O. Prum, Ph.D.

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Publications - 2000s
Richard O. Prum, Ph.D.
Prum w/ Paradisea

1980s | 1990s | 2000s

Prum, R. O., Rice, N. H., Mobley, J. A., and Dimmick, W. W. 2000. A preliminary phylogenetic hypothesis for the cotingas (Cotingidae) based on mitochondrial DNA. Auk 117: 236-241.

Prum, R. O. 2000. Phylogeny, Sexual Selection and Behavioral Evolution of the Manakins (Pipridae) and Cotingas (Cotingidae). Pp. 105-127, In A Ornitologia no Brasil: Pesquisa Atual e Perspectivas. Eds. M. A. S. Alves, et al. Univ. Est. Rio de Janeiro Press, Rio de Janeiro.

Xu, X., Zhou, Z., and Prum, R. O. 2001. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers. Nature 410: 200-204.

Prum, R. O. 2001. Longisquama fossil and feather morphology. Science 291: 1899.

Prum, R. O. 2001. A new genus for the Andean green pihas (Cotingidae). Ibis 143: 307-309.

Prum, R. O. and Williamson, S. 2001. A theory of the growth and evolution of feather shape. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 291: 30-57.

Prum, R. O. 2002. Why ornithologists should care about the theropod origin of birds. Auk 119: 1-17

Prum, R. O. and Williamson, S. 2002. Reaction-diffusion models of within-feather pigmentation patterning. Proceeding of the Royal Society, London: Biological Sciences (B). 269: 781-792.

Prum, R. O. and Brush, A. H. 2002. The evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers. Quarterly Review of Biology. 77: 261-295.

Harris, M. H., Fallon, J. F., and Prum, R. O. 2002. A Shh-Bmp2 Developmental Module and the Evolutionary Origin and Diversification of Feathers. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution). 294: 160-176.

Prum, R. O., Andersson, and S. F., Torres, R. M. 2003. Coherent scattering of ultraviolet light by avian feather barbs. Auk 120:163-170.

Prum, R. O., and Torres, R. H. 2003. Structural colouration of avian skin: Convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays. Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 2409-2429.

Pérez-Emán, J., Sharpe, C. J., Lentino, M., Prum, R. O., and Carreño, I. J. 2003. New records of birds from the summit of Cerro Guaiquinima, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 123: 78- 90.

Prum, R. O. and Dyck, J. 2003. A hierarchical model of plumage: modularity, development, and evolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution). 298B: 73-90.

Bostwick, K. S. and Prum, R. O. 2003. High-speed video of wing-snapping in two manakin clades (Pipridae: Aves). Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3693-3706.

Prum, R. O., and Torres, R. H. 2003. A Fourier tool for the analysis of coherent light scattering by bio-optical nanostructures. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43: 591-610.

Prum, R. O., and Razafindratsita, V. R. 2003. Philepittinae. Pp. 1123- 1130, In The Natural History of Madagascar. Eds. S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Prum, R. O., and Torres, R. H. 2004. Structural colouration of mammalian skin: Convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays. Journal of Experimental Biology. In press.

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