Transitional fossil earwigs - A missing link in Dermaptera evolution

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zhao, Jingxia ^a   Zhao, Yunyun ^a   Shih, Chungkun ^a   Ren, Dong ^a   Wang, Yongjie ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; INSECT; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; MONGOLIA;

DERMAPTERA; HEXAPODA; PTERYGOTA (WINGED INSECTS);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FOSSILS; INSECTS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78149260873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-344     Document Type: Article

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