Unparalleled details of soft tissues in a Cretaceous ant
Abstract For social insects such as ants, the internal organs are likely important in understanding their eusocial behavior and evolution. Such organs, however, are rarely preserved on fossils. In each of the few cases reporting exceptionally fossilized soft tissues in arthropods, the nervous, muscu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02099-2 |