Ancient Ephemeroptera–Collembola Symbiosis Fossilized in Amber Predicts Contemporary Phoretic Associations

X-ray computed tomography is used to identify a unique example of fossilized phoresy in 16 million-year-old Miocene Dominican amber involving a springtail being transported by a mayfly. It represents the first evidence (fossil or extant) of phoresy in adult Ephemeroptera and only the second record i...

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Autores principales: Penney, David, McNeil, Andrew, Green, David I., Bradley, Robert S., Jepson, James E., Withers, Philip J., Preziosi, Richard F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047651

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047651

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