Primary molt in Gruiforms and simpler molt summary tables.

ABSTRACT: Molt summary tables reveal the sequence and mode of flight-feather replacement and how these feathers are divided into independent replacement series. Tables for summarizing molt are relatively new, and the rules for generating them were first formally illustrated using data from a temperate passerine. However, this first illustration failed to address (i) species with primaries divided into more than one replacement series, (ii) species with stepwise primary replacement, which almost always involves incomplete annual replacement of the primaries, and (iii) species with incomplete annual replacement within molt series characterized by single-wave replacement. Here, we review complications that arise in developing molt summary tables for such cases and we offer solutions that remove ambigui

SUBMITTER: Rohwer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6130233 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature