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The first flea with fully distended abdomen from the Early Cretaceous of China

BACKGROUND: Fleas, the most notorious insect ectoparasites of human, dogs, cats, birds, etc., have recently been traced to its basal and primitive ancestors during the Middle Jurassic. Compared with extant fleas, these large basal fleas have many different features. Although several fossil species w...

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Autores principales: Gao, Taiping, Shih, Chungkun, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P, Xu, Xing, Wang, Shuo, Ren, Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25158612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0168-1