Extreme adaptations for aquatic ectoparasitism in a Jurassic fly larva

The reconstruction of ancient insect ectoparasitism is challenging, mostly because of the extreme scarcity of fossils with obvious ectoparasitic features such as sucking-piercing mouthparts and specialized attachment organs. Here we describe a bizarre fly larva (Diptera), Qiyia jurassica gen. et sp....

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Main Authors: Chen, Jun, Wang, Bo, Engel, Michael S, Wappler, Torsten, Jarzembowski, Edmund A, Zhang, Haichun, Wang, Xiaoli, Zheng, Xiaoting, Rust, Jes
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014
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Ecology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067894/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963142
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02844
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