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Cretaceous origin of the unique prey-capture apparatus in mega-diverse genus: stem lineage of Steninae rove beetles discovered in Burmese amber

Stenus is the largest genus of rove beetles and the second largest among animals. Its evolutionary success was associated with the adhesive labial prey-capture apparatus, a unique apomorphy of that genus. Definite Stenus with prey-capture apparatus are known from the Cenozoic fossils, while the age...

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Autores principales: Żyła, Dagmara, Yamamoto, Shûhei, Wolf-Schwenninger, Karin, Solodovnikov, Alexey
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/PMC5387741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28397786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45904