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Ovipositor and mouthparts in a fossil insect support a novel ecological role for early orthopterans in 300 million years old forests
A high portion of the earliest known insect fauna is composed of the so-called ‘lobeattid insects’, whose systematic affinities and role as foliage feeders remain debated. We investigated hundreds of samples of a new lobeattid species from the Xiaheyan locality using a combination of photographic te...
Autores principales: | Chen, Lu, Gu, Jun-Jie, Yang, Qiang, Ren, Dong, Blanke, Alexander, Béthoux, Olivier |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8631945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34844668 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71006 |
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