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A Mesozoic clown beetle myrmecophile (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

Complex interspecies relationships are widespread among metazoans, but the evolutionary history of these lifestyles is poorly understood. We describe a fossil beetle in 99-million-year-old Burmese amber that we infer to have been a social impostor of the earliest-known ant colonies. Promyrmister kis...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Yu-Lingzi, Ślipiński, Adam, Ren, Dong, Parker, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6467565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30990167
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44985