Carnivorous leaves from Baltic amber

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 190-195

  Sadowski, Eva Maria ^a   Seyfullah, Leyla J ^a   Sadowski, Friederike ^b   Fleischmann, Andreas ^c   Behling, Hermann ^d   Schmidt, Alexander R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eocene; Ericales; Plant carnivory; Roridulaceae

Indexed keywords

AMBER; BALTIC AMBER; HYALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; EPIDERMIS; EUROPE; FOSSIL PLANT; HETEROPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT LEAF; RORIDULA GORGONIAS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRICHOME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BALTIC STATES; CARNIVORY; DROSERACEAE; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALDROVANDA; DROSERACEAE; ERICALES; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RORIDULA; RORIDULA GORGONIAS; RORIDULACEAE;

AMBER; BALTIC STATES; CARNIVORY; DROSERACEAE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84920382315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414777111     Document Type: Article

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