ArticleNature communications2017
parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.
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- Comparative mitogenomic and phylogenetic insights from four newly sequenced tick mitochondrial genomes.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
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- Universal Tick Vaccines: Candidates and Remaining Challenges.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Croquemort elicits activation of the immune deficiency pathway in ticks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Virome diversity of ticks feeding on domestic mammals in China.Virologica Sinica · 2023Article
- Necrophagy by insects in Oculudentavis and other lizard body fossils preserved in Cretaceous amber.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Hard ticks in Burmese amber with Australasian affinities.Parasitology · 2023Article
- Tick Salivary Kunitz-Type Inhibitors: Targeting Host Hemostasis and Immunity to Mediate Successful Blood Feeding.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Ticks are currently among the most prevalent blood-feeding ectoparasites, but their feeding habits and hosts in deep time have long remained speculative. Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new family Deinocrotonidae fed on blood from feathered dinosaurs, non-avialan or avialan excluding crown-group birds. A †Cornupalpatum burmanicum hard tick is entangled in a pennaceous feather. Two deinocrotonids described as †Deinocroton draculi gen. et sp. nov. have specialised setae from dermestid beetle larvae (hastisetae) attached to their bodies, likely indicating cohabitation in a feathered dinosaur nest. A third conspecific specimen is blood-engorged, its anatomical features suggesting that deinocrotonids fed rapidly to engorgement and had multiple gonotrophic cycles. These findings provide insight into early tick evolution and ecology, and shed light on poorly known arthropod-vertebrate interactions and potential disease transmission during the Mesozoic.
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