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New fossil ephialtitids elucidating the origin and transformation of the propodeal-metasomal articulation in Apocrita (Hymenoptera)

BACKGROUND: Apocrita has a special structure that its first abdominal segment has been incorporated into the thorax as the propodeum. The remaining abdomen, metasoma, is connected to this hybrid region via a narrow propodeal-metasomal articulation forming a “wasp waist”, which serves an important fu...

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Autores principales: Li, Longfeng, Shih, Chungkun, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P, Ren, Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25887291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0317-1