Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods: The Pattern From the Terrestrial Fossil Record

Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods: The Pattern From the Terrestrial Fossil Record

Insect and mite galls on land plants have a spotty but periodically rich and abundant fossil record of damage types (DTs), ichnotaxa, and informally described gall morphotypes. The earliest gall is on a liverwort of the Middle Devonian Period at 385 million years ago (Ma). A 70-million-year-long abs...

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Main Author: Conrad C. Labandeira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
angiosperms
damage types
end-Cretaceous extinction
end-Permian extinction
insects
mites
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.632449/full

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