Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence | |
Li, Yan-Da1,2,3; Kundrata, Robin4; Tihelka, Erik5; Liu, Zhenhua6,7; Huang, Diying1,2; Cai, Chenyang1,2,5 | |
刊名 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES |
2021-01-27 | |
卷号 | 288期号:1943页码:8 |
关键词 | Elateroidea biogeography fossil bioluminescence Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution |
ISSN号 | 0962-8452 |
DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2020.2730 |
英文摘要 | Bioluminescent beetles of the superfamily Elateroidea (fireflies, fire beetles, glow-worms) are the most speciose group of terrestrial light-producing animals. The evolution of bioluminescence in elateroids is associated with unusual morphological modifications, such as soft-bodiedness and neoteny, but the fragmentary nature of the fossil record discloses little about the origin of these adaptations. We report the discovery of a new bioluminescent elateroid beetle family from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar (ca 99 Ma), Cretophengodidae fam. nov. Cretophengodes azari gen. et sp. nov. belongs to the bioluminescent lampyroid clade, and would appear to represent a transitional fossil linking the soft-bodied Phengodidae + Rhagophthalmidae clade and hard-bodied elateroids. The fossil male possesses a light organ on the abdomen which presumably served a defensive function, documenting a Cretaceous radiation of bioluminescent beetles coinciding with the diversification of major insectivore groups such as frogs and stem-group birds. The discovery adds a key branch to the elateroid tree of life and sheds light on the evolution of soft-bodiedness and the historical biogeography of elateroid beetles. |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB18000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41672011] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41688103] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research project[2019QZKK0706] |
WOS关键词 | COLEOPTERA LAMPYRIDAE ; FIREFLIES COLEOPTERA ; BURMESE AMBER ; BALTIC AMBER ; ELATEROIDEA ; PHYLOGENY ; PREDATION ; SUBFAMILY ; ORIGINS ; GENUS |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | ROYAL SOC |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000613510700006 |
资助机构 | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research project |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/37789] |
专题 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
通讯作者 | Cai, Chenyang |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Palaeoenvironm, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 3.Peking Univ, Sch Life Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 4.Palacky Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Zool, Olomouc 77900, Czech Republic 5.Univ Bristol, Sch Earth Sci, Life Sci Bldg,Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TQ, Avon, England 6.Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Life Sci, State Key Lab Biocontrol, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China 7.CSIRO, Natl Res Collect Australia, Australian Natl Insect Collect, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Yan-Da,Kundrata, Robin,Tihelka, Erik,et al. Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2021,288(1943):8. |
APA | Li, Yan-Da,Kundrata, Robin,Tihelka, Erik,Liu, Zhenhua,Huang, Diying,&Cai, Chenyang.(2021).Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,288(1943),8. |
MLA | Li, Yan-Da,et al."Cretophengodidae, a new Cretaceous beetle family, sheds light on the evolution of bioluminescence".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 288.1943(2021):8. |
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