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100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the ol...

100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the ol...

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100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the oldest cases of extreme physogastry in insects

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100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the oldest cases of extreme physogastry in insects

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Scientific reports, 2022-07, Vol.12 (1), p.12760-12760, Article 12760

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English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Physogastry is a phenomenon occurring in Euarthropoda and describes an extreme inflation of (parts of) the trunk. It is best known from ticks, termite queens, or honey-pot ants, but can also be found in several other representatives of Euarthropoda. Physogastry has so far rarely been seen in the fossil record. We describe here an example of physoga...

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100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the oldest cases of extreme physogastry in insects

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_aee2ad3ac9c2418caecb8642af8cd792

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_aee2ad3ac9c2418caecb8642af8cd792

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2045-2322

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2045-2322

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10.1038/s41598-022-16698-y

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