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Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages
Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new family D...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727220/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29233973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01550-z |