Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates

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	Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates
	Gao, Tai-ping 1; Shih, Chung-kun 1; Xu, Xing 2; Wang, Shuo 2,3; Ren, Dong 1
	2012-04-24
发表期刊	CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷号	22 期号:8 页码:732-735
文章类型	Article
摘要	Parasite-host associations among insects and mammals or birds are well attended by neontological studies [1]. An Eocene bird louse compression fossil [2, 3] and several flea specimens from Eocene and Oligocene ambers [4-8], reported to date, are exceptionally similar to living louse and flea taxa. But the origin, morphology, and early evolution of parasites and their associations with hosts are poorly known [9, 101 due to sparse records of putative ectoparasites with uncertain classification in the Mesozoic, most lacking mouthpart information and other critical details of the head morphology [11-15]. Here we present two primitive flea-like species assigned to the Pseudopulicidae Gao, Shih et Ren familia nova (fam. nov.), Pseudopulex jurassicus Gao, Shih et Ren genus novum et species nova (gen. et sp. nov) from the Middle Jurassic [16] and P. magnus Gao, Shih et Ren sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous in China [17]. They exhibit many features of ectoparasitic insects. Large body size and long serrated stylets for piercing tough and thick skin or hides of hosts suggest that these primitive ectoparasites might have lived on and sucked the blood of relatively large hosts, such as contemporaneous feathered dinosaurs and/or pterosaurs or medium-sized mammals (found in the Early Cretaceous, but not the Middle Jurassic).
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	SIPHONAPTERA ; INSECTA ; FOSSIL ; AGE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Cell Biology
WOS类目	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Cell Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000303288300028
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7212
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Tai-ping,Shih, Chung-kun,Xu, Xing,et al. Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates[J]. CURRENT BIOLOGY,2012,22(8):732-735.
APA	Gao, Tai-ping,Shih, Chung-kun,Xu, Xing,Wang, Shuo,&Ren, Dong.(2012).Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates.CURRENT BIOLOGY,22(8),732-735.
MLA	Gao, Tai-ping,et al."Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates".CURRENT BIOLOGY 22.8(2012):732-735.