New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13516-4

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	New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber
	Gao, Taiping 1,2; Yin, Xiangchu 3; Shih, Chungkun 1,2,4; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.5,6; Xu, Xing 7,8; Chen, Sha 1,2; Wang, Chen 9; Ren, Dong 1,2
刊名	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
	2019-12-10
卷号	10 页码:7
ISSN号	2041-1723
DOI	10.1038/s41467-019-13516-4
通讯作者	Gao, Taiping(tpgao@cnu.edu.cn) ; Ren, Dong(rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn)
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.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[31730087] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41688103] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31872277] ; Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University[IRT-17R75] ; Support Project of High-Level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities in the Period of 13th Five-year Plan[IDHT20180518] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB18030504]
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
出版者	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
WOS记录号	WOS:000502087200001
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University ; Support Project of High-Level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities in the Period of 13th Five-year Plan ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/16754]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
通讯作者	Gao, Taiping; Ren, Dong
作者单位	1.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu Haidian Dist, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 2.Capital Normal Univ, Acad Multidisciplinary Studies, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu Haidian Dist, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Plateau Biol, 23 Xinning Rd, Xining 810008, Qinghai, Peoples R China 4.Smithsonian Inst, Dept Paleobiol, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Washington, DC 20013 USA 5.Russian Acad Sci, AA Borissiak Palaeontol Inst, Moscow 117647, Russia 6.Nat Hist Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 8.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 9.Capital Med Univ, Sch Hlth Adm & Educ, 10 Xitoutiao, Beijing 100069, Peoples R China
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,2019,10:7.
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,10,7.
MLA	Gao, Taiping,et al."New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10(2019):7.