Extreme adaptations for probable visual courtship behaviour in a Cretaceous dancing damselfly

Courtship behaviours, frequent among modern insects, have left extremely rare fossil traces. None are known previously for fossil odonatans. Fossil traces of such behaviours are better known among the vertebrates, e.g. the hypertelic antlers of the Pleistocene giant deer Megaloceros giganteus. Here...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Daran, Nel, André, Jarzembowski, Edmund A., Chang, Su-Chin, Zhang, Haichun, Xia, Fangyuan, Liu, Haoying, Wang, Bo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28317876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep44932

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28317876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep44932

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