New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber

	New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber
	Gao, Taiping; Yin, Xiangchu; Shih, Chungkun; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Xu, Xing; Chen, Sha; Wang, Chen; Ren, Dong
刊名	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
	2019
卷号	10
英文摘要	Due to a lack of Mesozoic fossil records, the origins and early evolution of feather-feeding behaviors by insects are obscure. Here, we report ten nymph specimens of a new lineage of insect, Mesophthirus engeli gen et. sp. nov. within Mesophthiridae fam. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Mya) Myanmar (Burmese) amber. This new insect Glade shows a series of ectoparasitic morphological characters such as tiny wingless body, head with strong chewing mouthparts, robust and short antennae having long setae, legs with only one single tarsal claw associated with two additional long setae, etc. Most significantly, these insects are preserved with partially damaged dinosaur feathers, the damage of which was probably made by these insects' integument-feeding behaviors. This finding demonstrates that feather-feeding behaviors of insects originated at least in mid-Cretaceous, accompanying the radiation of feathered dinosaurs including early birds.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/60478]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Taiping,Yin, Xiangchu,Shih, Chungkun,et al. New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2019,10.
APA	Gao, Taiping.,Yin, Xiangchu.,Shih, Chungkun.,Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P..,Xu, Xing.,...&Ren, Dong.(2019).New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,10.
MLA	Gao, Taiping,et al."New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10(2019).