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SUBMITTER: van de Kamp T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113268 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van de Kamp Thomas T Schwermann Achim H AH Dos Santos Rolo Tomy T Lösel Philipp D PD Engler Thomas T Etter Walter W Faragó Tomáš T Göttlicher Jörg J Heuveline Vincent V Kopmann Andreas A Mähler Bastian B Mörs Thomas T Odar Janes J Rust Jes J Tan Jerome Nicholas N Vogelgesang Matthias M Baumbach Tilo T Krogmann Lars L
Nature communications 20180828 1
About 50% of all animal species are considered parasites. The linkage of species diversity to a parasitic lifestyle is especially evident in the insect order Hymenoptera. However, fossil evidence for host-parasitoid interactions is extremely rare, rendering hypotheses on the evolution of parasitism assumptive. Here, using high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography, we examine 1510 phosphatized fly pupae from the Paleogene of France and identify 55 parasitation events by four wasp species, ...[more]