- or barbs; the
barbs themselves are also
branched and form the
barbules.
These barbules have
minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment. Down feathers...
- that
involves the use of the beak to
position feathers,
interlock feather barbules that have
become separated,
clean plumage, and keep
ectoparasites in check...
-
feather types. It has a
short or
vestigial rachis (shaft), few barbs, and
barbules that lack hooks.
There are
three types of down:
natal down, body down and...
-
which he
termed "structural colors." In 1923, C. W.
Mason noted that the
barbules in the pea****
feather were made from very thin layers. Some of
these layers...
-
fossils reported by de la
Fuente (2003). A
pseudoscorpion attached to
barbules of a
contour feather,
possibly do****enting a p****tic ****ociation between...
- and
nostrils and on its neck with
barbules closer together. They are
stiffer with more
hooks and
nodes for
barbules to
attach to one another, yielding...
-
numerous terms describing the
complex structural makeup of
feathers (e.g.,
barbules,
rachides and vanes);
types of
feathers (e.g., filoplume,
pennaceous and...
- the
barbules (fiber-like components) of the feathers,
produce the pea****'s colours. 2D photonic-crystal
structures within the
layers of the
barbules cause...
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remiges and rectrices, that is, enlarged, stiff-shafted, closed-vaned (=
barbules bearing hooked distal pennulae),
pennaceous feathers arising from the distal...
- In
stage IIIb,
barbules paired within the
peripheral barbule plates of the barb ridges,
create branched barbs with rami and
barbules. This resulting...