The case of Darwinylus marcosi (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae): A Cretaceous shift from a gymnosperm to an angiosperm pollinator mutualism
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David Peris, Conrad C. Labandeira, Enrique Pe~ nalver, Xavier Delcl os, Eduardo Barr on, and Ricardo P erez-de la Fuente Departament de Ci encies Agr aries i del Medi Natural, Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Campus del Riu Sec, Castell o de la Plana, Spain; Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Entomology and Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China; Museo Geominero, Instituto Geol ogico y Minero de Espa~na, Madrid, Spain; Departament de Din amica de la Terra i de l’Oce a, and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Ci encies de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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دوره 10 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017