Flower-associated Brachycera flies as fossil evidence for Jurassic angiosperm origins

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5360, 1998, Pages 85-88

  Ren, Dong ^a  

^a Geological Museum of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BRACHYCERA; FLY; FOSSIL INSECT; JURASSIC; POLLINATION; SHORT-HORNED FLY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FLY; FOSSIL; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOOLOGY;

CHINA, LIAONING PROVINCE;

BRACHYCERA; DIPTERA;

EID: 0032478831     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5360.85     Document Type: Article

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35. I am particularly grateful to an anonymous reviewer for critical review of the manuscript. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Fund for Young Geologists of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources (MGMR); the Young Scientists Laboratory of Plant Origin and Environmental Changes, Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Special Fund (from the Financial Ministry) of Biological Sciences and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and the Laboratory of Geomechanics, MGMR.