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Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages

Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new family D...

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Publicado en:Nat Commun
Main Authors: Peñalver, Enrique, Arillo, Antonio, Delclòs, Xavier, Peris, David, Grimaldi, David A., Anderson, Scott R., Nascimbene, Paul C., Pérez-de la Fuente, Ricardo
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727220/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29233973
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01550-z
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