Abstract
Despite the ecological importance of the feather cover during early avian life, the events controlling the transition from natal down to juvenile feathers are poorly understood. Chen et al. demonstrate that this transition is characterized by a series of morphological and molecular changes strikingly conserved between precocial and altricial species.
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