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...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.of 31830084,31970440&32070466);also supported by“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”,Nankai University(No.96172158,96173250&91822294).
Many extant species spin cocoons before their pupal stage,which can protect them from predators,pathogens,and fluctuant environmental factors in nests.However,owing to the scarcity of ant cocoon fossils,little is know...
Part of the project was supported by the German Research Foundation under DFG Ha 6300/6-1.
Dear Editor,Hatching is a crucial moment in the life of an animal.The animal stops being an embryo protected by the egg and becomes a post-embryonic immature(see Haug,2020 for difficulties in naming these stages).This...
supported by the Tellus-INTERRVIE program of the CNRS INSU(project AMBRAFRICA to V.P.),by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA19050101 to B.W.);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41688103 to B.W.),by grant of the mobility program of the EGAAL doctoral school of University of Rennes(to V.B.);by the German Research Foundation(project 428174246 to K.F.,project 408295270 to U.K.).
Amber is renowned for the exceptional preservation state of its inclusions,allowing detailed morphological analysis and providing relevant environmental,palaeoecological,geographical,and geological information.Amber d...