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Zhiheng Li
Researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications - 37
Citations - 887
Zhiheng Li is an academic researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enantiornithes & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 32 publications receiving 626 citations. Previous affiliations of Zhiheng Li include Center for Excellence in Education & University of Texas at Austin.
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Diffusible iodine‐based contrast‐enhanced computed tomography (diceCT): an emerging tool for rapid, high‐resolution, 3‐D imaging of metazoan soft tissues
Paul M. Gignac,Nathan J. Kley,Julia A. Clarke,Matthew W. Colbert,Ashley C. Morhardt,Donald Cerio,Ian N. Cost,Philip G. Cox,Juan D. Daza,Catherine M. Early,M. Scott Echols,R. Mark Henkelman,A. Nele Herdina,Casey M. Holliday,Zhiheng Li,Kristin Mahlow,Samer S. Merchant,Johannes Müller,Courtney P. Orsbon,Daniel J. Paluh,Monte L. Thies,Henry P. Tsai,Henry P. Tsai,Lawrence M. Witmer +23 more
TL;DR: A critical review of the recent contributions to iodine‐based, contrast‐enhanced CT research is provided to enable researchers just beginning to employ contrast enhancement to make sense of this complex new landscape of methodologies.
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Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic
Julia A. Clarke,Sankar Chatterjee,Zhiheng Li,Zhiheng Li,Tobias Riede,Federico L. Agnolin,Franz Goller,Marcelo P. Isasi,Daniel Roberto Martinioni,Francisco J. Mussel,Fernando E. Novas +10 more
TL;DR: The first remains, to the authors' knowledge, of a fossil syrinx from the Mesozoic Era are described, preserved in three dimensions in a specimen from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica and show the fossilization potential of the avian vocal organ and beg the question why these remains have not been found in other dinosaurs.
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A New Specimen of Large-Bodied Basal Enantiornithine Bohaiornis from the Early Cretaceous of China and the Inference of Feeding Ecology in Mesozoic Birds
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that cranial morphology as well as the number and shape of the preserved stones in Bohaiornis may be most consistent with a raptorial ecology previously unknown for Enantiornithes and considered rare for Avialae.
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On the horizon of Protopteryx and the early vertebrate fossil assemblages of the Jehol Biota
TL;DR: Protopteryx, a monotypic fossil bird discovered from the Sichakou basin in Fengning, Hebei, is the most primitive enantiornithine currently known as mentioned in this paper.
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The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils
Yanhong Pan,Wenxia Zheng,Roger H. Sawyer,Michael W. Pennington,Xiaoting Zheng,Xiaoli Wang,Min Wang,Liang Hu,Jingmai K. O’Connor,Tao Zhao,Zhiheng Li,Elena R. Schroeter,Feixiang Wu,Xing Xu,Zhonghe Zhou,Mary Higby Schweitzer,Mary Higby Schweitzer +16 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed here that feathers were modified at both molecular and morphological levels to obtain the biomechanical properties for flight during the dinosaur–bird transition, and it is shown that the patterns and timing of adaptive change at the molecular level can be directly addressed in exceptionally preserved fossils in deep time.