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A mantidfly in Cretaceous Spanish amber provides insights into the evolution of integumentary specialisations on the raptorial foreleg

Multiple predatory insect lineages have developed a raptorial lifestyle by which they strike and hold prey using modified forelegs armed with spine-like structures and other integumentary specialisations. However, how structures enabling the raptorial function evolved in insects remains largely hypo...

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Autores principales: Pérez-de la Fuente, Ricardo, Peñalver, Enrique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6744510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31519980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49398-1