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Re: Has anyone ever discovered fossilized parasites ?

Date: Mon Jul 12 04:43:48 1999
Posted By: Konrad Dolphin, Grad student, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 931627537.Ev
Message:

Yes lots! The best place to look is in amber, and the most complete 
reference for this is a book called 'Life in Amber' by George Poinar Jr. 
1992, from which the following examples are taken:
fungi on insects - poinar and thomas 1982, 1984
fungi on nematode - jansson and poinar 1986
mites -schlee and glockner 1978, poinar 1985, poinar et al. 1991, poinar 
1988
nematodes - poinar 1984a, 1984b, 1991
ticks - weidner, 1964 keilbach, 1982
parasitoid wasps - brues 1923, 1933 1939.

poinar & thomas 1982. Mycologia, 74:332-4
poinar & thomas 1984. Experientia 40: 578-9
jansson & poinar 1986. Trans.British Mycol.Soc. 87:471-4
schlee & glockner 1978. Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. (serie C) 8: 72pp.
poinar 1985. Inter. J. Acarology 11:37-8
poinar, treat and southcott. 1991. Experientia 47: 210-12
poinar 1988a. Ezperientia 44: 88-9
poinar 1984a. Revue Nematol. 7: 201-3
poinar 1984b J. Parasitology 70: 306-8
poinar 1991 Rev. de Nematologie 14: 565-80
weidner, 1964 Veroff.Uberseemus. Bremen 3: 143-51
keilbach 1982. Deut. Entomol. Zeit. N.F. 29: 129-286, 301-491
brues 1923. Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci., Boston 58: 327-46
_     1933. Bernstein-Forschungen 4-178
_     1939 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 32: 251-63



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