TY - JOUR
T1 - Parasitoid biology preserved in mineralized fossils
AU - van de Kamp, Thomas
AU - Schwermann, Achim H.
AU - dos Santos Rolo, Tomy
AU - Lösel, Philipp D.
AU - Engler, Thomas
AU - Etter, Walter
AU - Faragó, Tomáš
AU - Göttlicher, Jörg
AU - Heuveline, Vincent
AU - Kopmann, Andreas
AU - Mähler, Bastian
AU - Mörs, Thomas
AU - Odar, Janes
AU - Rust, Jes
AU - Tan Jerome, Nicholas
AU - Vogelgesang, Matthias
AU - Baumbach, Tilo
AU - Krogmann, Lars
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - About 50% of all animal species are considered parasites. The linkage of species diversity to a parasitic lifestyle is especially evident in the insect order Hymenoptera. However, fossil evidence for host–parasitoid interactions is extremely rare, rendering hypotheses on the evolution of parasitism assumptive. Here, using high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography, we examine 1510 phosphatized fly pupae from the Paleogene of France and identify 55 parasitation events by four wasp species, providing morphological and ecological data. All species developed as solitary endoparasitoids inside their hosts and exhibit different morphological adaptations for exploiting the same hosts in one habitat. Our results allow systematic and ecological placement of four distinct endoparasitoids in the Paleogene and highlight the need to investigate ecological data preserved in the fossil record.
AB - About 50% of all animal species are considered parasites. The linkage of species diversity to a parasitic lifestyle is especially evident in the insect order Hymenoptera. However, fossil evidence for host–parasitoid interactions is extremely rare, rendering hypotheses on the evolution of parasitism assumptive. Here, using high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography, we examine 1510 phosphatized fly pupae from the Paleogene of France and identify 55 parasitation events by four wasp species, providing morphological and ecological data. All species developed as solitary endoparasitoids inside their hosts and exhibit different morphological adaptations for exploiting the same hosts in one habitat. Our results allow systematic and ecological placement of four distinct endoparasitoids in the Paleogene and highlight the need to investigate ecological data preserved in the fossil record.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-018-05654-y
DO - 10.1038/s41467-018-05654-y
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 9
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 3325
ER -