Scientists solve 'flea mystery'
Credit: NIGPAS With almost every aspect of their biology and anatomy adapted to their specialized parasitic lifestyle, fleas have long troubled evolutionary biologists. Their early evolution and position on the insect tree of life remained a mystery even after the first flea genomes were sequenced over the last decade. Now, however, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) and the University of Bristol in the UK have solved this long-standing evolutionary riddle. Their study was published in Palaeoentomology, the officia...
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