New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber

Due to a lack of Mesozoic fossil records, the origins and early evolution of feather-feeding behaviors by insects are obscure. Here, we report ten nymph specimens of a new lineage of insect, Mesophthirus engeli gen et. sp. nov. within Mesophthiridae fam. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Mya) My...

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Julkaisussa:Nat Commun
Päätekijät: Gao, Taiping, Yin, Xiangchu, Shih, Chungkun, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P., Xu, Xing, Chen, Sha, Wang, Chen, Ren, Dong
Aineistotyyppi: Artigo
Kieli:Inglês
Julkaistu: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Linkit:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6904634/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31822675
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13516-4
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