KMS Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS
Widespread mimicry and camouflage among mid-Cretaceous insects | |
Xu, Chunpeng(许春鹏)1,2,3; Wang, Bo(王博)1,2![]() ![]() ![]() | |
2022 | |
Source Publication | GONDWANA RESEARCH
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ISSN | 1342-937X |
Volume | 101Pages:94-102 |
Abstract | The avoidance of detection by predators and parasites is critical to survival. Two complex mechanisms for such avoidance are mimicry and camouflage, with fossils providing valuable insight into the evolution of these strategies. Such fossil evidence is, however, rare, and the frequent partial and lopsided occurrence. Here, we report a diverse insect assemblage exhibiting these adaptations from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (99 million years ago), including plant mimesis in Tridactylidae (pygmy mole crickets) and debris-carrying camouflage in Gelastocoridae (toad bugs) and Psocodea (bark lice). Critically, Mesozoic plant mimesis in Tridactylidae is supported by our Siamese Network analysis, a Deep Learning model and potentially powerful tool for investigating ancient mimicry. Together with previously known records, our fossils demonstrate that most extant debris-carrying insects (eight groups with direct camouflage) had evolved exogenous camouflage by the mid-Cretaceous. Our results suggest that a complex biological response was already widespread among insects in mid-Cretaceous ecosystems during the rise of angios-perms, probably in response to similar selective pressures as experienced by their extant counterparts. (c) 2021 International Association for Gondwana Research. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
Keyword | Cretaceous Mimicry Camouflage Insect Amber |
DOI | 10.1016/j.gr.2021.07.025 |
Indexed By | SCI |
Language | 英语 |
WOS Keyword | CRETACEOUS AMBER ; ORTHOPTERA ; EVOLUTION ; FOSSIL ; JUNGERMANNIOPSIDA ; PORELLALES ; MIMESIS ; GENUS ; BIOLOGY ; BUGS |
Funding Project | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA19050101] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research[2019QZKK0706] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41688103] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship Contribution |
WOS Research Area | Geology |
WOS Subject | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS ID | WOS:000702866800008 |
Funding Organization | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship Contribution |
Publisher | ELSEVIER |
Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/39883 |
Collection | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
Corresponding Author | Wang, Bo(王博) |
Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Wuhan Univ, Key Lab Aerosp Informat Secur & Trusted Comp, Minist Educ, Wuhan 430000, Peoples R China 5.Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 6.Zhejiang Museum Nat Hist, Hangzhou 310012, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 7.Univ Kansas, Div Entomol, Nat Hist Museum, 1501 Crestline Dr,Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA 8.Univ Kansas, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA 9.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Invertebrate Zool, New York, NY 10024 USA |
First Author Affilication | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS |
Corresponding Author Affilication | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Xu, Chunpeng,Wang, Bo,Fan, Li,et al. Widespread mimicry and camouflage among mid-Cretaceous insects[J]. GONDWANA RESEARCH,2022,101:94-102. |
APA | Xu, Chunpeng.,Wang, Bo.,Fan, Li.,Jarzembowski, Edmund A..,Fang, Yan.,...&Engel, Michael S..(2022).Widespread mimicry and camouflage among mid-Cretaceous insects.GONDWANA RESEARCH,101,94-102. |
MLA | Xu, Chunpeng,et al."Widespread mimicry and camouflage among mid-Cretaceous insects".GONDWANA RESEARCH 101(2022):94-102. |
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