Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

The Mesozoic is a key era for the rise of the modern insect fauna. Among the most important
evolutionary events in Mesozoic insects are the radiation of holometabolous insects, the …

The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

The fossil record of parasites is limited thus far. A survey of the fossil record shows that some
modes of preservation show a higher potential for the preservation of parasitic remains or …

The use of the functional feeding group–damage type system for analyzing arthropod and
pathogen interactions with plants has transformed our understanding of herbivory in fossil …

Parasitoid wasps are the most successful group of insect parasitoids, comprising more than
half the known diversity of Hymenoptera and probably most of the unknown diversity. This …

Insect and mite galls on land plants have a spotty but periodically rich and abundant fossil
record of damage types (DTs), ichnotaxa, and informally described gall morphotypes. The …

Among cressdnaviruses, only the family Circoviridae is recognized to infect vertebrates,
while many others have unknown hosts. Detection of virus-to-host horizontal gene transfer is …

We investigated the mining mode of insect feeding, involving larval consumption of a plant's
internal tissues, from the Middle Jurassic (165 million years ago) Daohugou locality of …

Abstract The Early Cretaceous terrestrial revolution involved global shifts from gymnosperm‐
to angiosperm‐dominated floras. However, responses of insect herbivores to these changes …