Sentence examples for component of feathers from inspiring English sources

The structural component of feathers, hair, nails, horns, hooves, bones, furs, claws, hides, bird beaks, skin, wool, scales, and bristle is made up of keratin.

The major components of feathers are α- and β-keratins, which are encoded by multigene families (Alibardi and Toni 2008).

Cysteine-rich keratin-associated proteins (KRTAPs) are important components of hair whereas the molecular components of feathers have remained incompletely known.

Indeed, T-maze experiments have found that crested auklets (Aethia cristatella) exhibited an attraction to conspecific feather odour and preferentially orientated towards two chemical components of feather scent [ 46].

The dynamic evolution of the α- and β-keratins in the avian lineage accompanied these adaptations with the avian specific feather β-keratins making up to 85% of the total number of β-keratins, becoming the major structural component of the avian feather.

Feathers, workshop on various types of feathers.

Expect a flurry of feathers.

The birds had hairs instead of feathers.

A wine glass full of feathers.

The feather-eating Mallophaga are able to digest the keratin of feathers.

Suddenly there were mattress toppers made of feathers and down, known as "European feather beds".