In Jurassic Park, amber fossils provided the key to bringing dinosaurs back to life. Scientists
in the movie extracted dinosaur blood from mosquitoes preserved for millions of years in …

DNA was extracted from the fossil termite Mastotermes electrodominicus preserved in Oligo-
Miocene amber (25 million to 30 million years old). Fragments of mitochondrial [16 S …

Aside from their beauty, insects in amber represent the finest fossil remains of the Insecta
and offer numerous opportunities to study microevolution, biogeography, mimicry, behavior …

The neuropterid fauna of early Miocene Dominican and Oligocene-Miocene Mexican amber
is treated. The fauna consists entirely of Megaloptera and Neuroptera while the snakeflies …

Termites are social cockroaches distributed throughout warm temperate and tropical
ecosystems. The ancestor of modern termites roamed the earth during the early Cretaceous …

All Mesozoic records of termites are from the Cretaceous and are of the families
Hodotermitidae, Termopsidae, and possibly the Mastotermitidae. All known fossil Isoptera …

Extraordinary preservation in amber of the Miocene termite Mastotermes electrodominicus
has led to the discovery of fossil symbiotic microbes. Spirochete bacteria and wood …

The termite species from Brazil's Early Cretaceous (Aptian-aged) Crato (Santana) Formation
are evaluated on the basis of the degree of character variation seen in modern species …

Palaeomycological material has rarely been reported in Mexican localities, especially
parasitic fungi. In this paper, we present the first formal report of an interaction between an …

Termites (order Isoptera) are highly eusocial members of the superorder Dictyoptera.
Species generally live in large, highly organized colonies with morphologically specialized …