supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG Ha 6300/6-1)and by the Volkswagen Foundation with a Lichtenberg Professorship to JTH.VB is supported by the Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities,Spain,within the Ramon y Cajal Program(RYC2021-032144-I).
Dear Editor,The Eocene(ca.56–34 million years ago)has become an important time to study due to the global warming at the time(e.g.,Inglis et al.,2020;Agterhuis et al.,2022;Tierney et al.,2022;Setty et al.,2023),hence...
supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency contracts(APVV-0436-12,APVV-18-0075);the UNESCO-Amba/MVTS supporting grant of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency(VEGA 2/0113/22,1/0467/20);the Operational Program of Research and Development and co-financed with the European Fund for Regional Development(EFRD),(ITMS 26230120004)(Building of research and development infrastructure for inves-tigations of genetic biodiversity of organisms),the IBOL initiative,and the PROGRES Q45(Charles University,Prague);funded by Woodside Energy Ltd.and Chevron Australia Pty Ltd.Project CRE(Cretaceous Resin Event:global bioevent of massive resin production at the initial diversification of modern forest ecosystems)was funded by the Spanish AEI/FEDER,UE Grant(CGL2017-84419);supported by a senior postdoctoral fellowship from the Rachadaphiseksomphot Fund,Graduate School,Chulalongkorn University;the research project INSU INTERRVIE NOVAMBRE 2(coord.D.N.)as well as a contribution to the activity of the laboratory‘Advanced Mi-cropalaeontology,Biodiversity and Evolution Researches’(AM-BER)led by D.A.at the Lebanese University.
With the exception of a fly and a mite from the Triassic of Italy,all Mesozoic amber arthropods are from the Cretaceous.Late Jurassic Lebanese amber from Aintourine revealed a completely preserved adult coccid male(wi...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.42272004,42288201,32020103006).
Until the advent of phylogenomics,the atypical morphology of extant represen-tatives of the insect orders Grylloblattodea(ice-crawlers)and Mantophasmatodea(gladi-ators)had confounding effects on efforts to resolve the...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270467,32020103006);National Research Foundation of Ukraine(2020/02/0369 to A.G.R.);CONCYTEC through the PROCIENCIA“Interinstitutional Alliances for Doctorate Programs”(PE501084299-2023-PROCIENCIA-BM to M.S.E.)。
Most described Mesozoic ants belong to stem groups that existed only during the Cretaceous period.Previously,the earliest known crown ants were dated to the Turonian(Late Cretaceous,ca.94-90 million years ago(Ma))depo...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB26000000);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y2021082)to Gong-Le Shi;the German Research Foundation (DFG,Grant No.423862824)to Eva-Maria Sadowski。
Parrotia C.A.Meyer(Hamamelidaceae)is a relictual genus with only two extant species disjunctly distributed in the subtropical forests of East China and temperate forests of North Iran.Fossil records suggest that Parro...
funded by the Science Foundation of Yunnan Province(Grant Nos.2015HA021 and 202401CF070913);the National Science Centre of Poland(Grant No.UMO-2016/23/B/NZ8/00936);supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation。
A new genus and species,Cretopleciofungivora simpsoni gen.et sp.nov.,from the extinct family Pleciofungivoridae(Diptera:Bibionomorpha),is discovered in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.Previously,this family was known only...
The amber deposits from the Albian-Cenomanian in Myanmar have emerged as a pivotal source for exceptionally abundant fossil insect fauna since their initial discovery. Recent studies have increasingly focused on eluci...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31872907 and No.32272371);S&T Program of Hebei(No.C2021201011);the 2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University.
Flesh-reddening usually occurs in the amber-fleshed plum(Prunus salicina Lindl.)fruit during cold storage but not during ambient storage direct after harvest.It is not clear how postharvest cold signal is mediated to ...
the financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFF0215400);grants from the Gemmological Institute of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan。
Amber can emit room temperature phosphorescence(RTP)under the well-known 365 nm fluorescence ultraviolet light.This paper is devoted to the phosphorescence study of 20 pieces of amber materials from the Dominican Repu...