ArticleiScience2020
Generalist Pollen-Feeding Beetles during the Mid-Cretaceous.
Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
- A new Cretaceous family illuminates the early evolutionary history of True Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinoidea).Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society · 2026Article
- Revisiting early angiosperm pollination: a reassessment of Angimordella beetle and co-occurring thrips from mid-Cretaceous amber.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Review
- Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm-to-angiosperm plant-host ecological shift.iScience · 2025Article
- The impact of thermogenesis on the origin of insect pollination.Nature plants · 2024Review
- The contribution of the Middle Triassic fossil assemblage of Monte San Giorgio to insect evolution.Communications biology · 2024Article
- The angiosperm radiation played a dual role in the diversification of insects and insect pollinators.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A New Subgenus of the GenusInsects · 2023Article
- Morphological Study of the Alimentary Canal and Malpighian Tubules in the Adult of the Pollen BeetleInsects · 2023Article
- The earliest pollen-loaded insects from the Lower Permian of Russia.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Mechanistic understanding of perianth traits hindering pollination inFrontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- A New Genus of Sap Beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Northern Myanmar.Insects · 2022Article
- Article
- The earliest beetle with mouthparts specialized for feeding on nectar is a parasitoid of mid-Cretaceous Hymenoptera.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A Bizarre Planthopper Nymph (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber.Insects · 2021Article
- Angiosperm pollinivory in a Cretaceous beetle.Nature plants · 2021Article
- Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms.Scientific reports · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The Cretaceous fossil record of amber provides a variety of evidence that is essential for greater understanding of early pollination strategies. Here, we describe four pieces of ca. 99-million-year-old (early Cenomanian) Myanmar amber from Kachin containing four closely related genera of short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) associated with abundant pollen grains identified as three distinct palynomorphotypes of the gymnosperm Cycadopites and Praenymphaeapollenites cenomaniensis gen. and sp. nov., a form-taxon of pollen from a basal angiosperm lineage of water lilies (Nymphaeales: Nymphaeaceae). We demonstrate how a gymnosperm to angiosperm plant-host shift occurred during the mid-Cretaceous, from a generalist pollen-feeding family of beetles, which served as a driving mechanism for the subsequent success of flowering plants.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.