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Stage-specific Feeding strategies - 520 million years ago (LMU press release)

In many animal species, larvae and adults occupy different ecological niches, and do not compete for the same resources. An LMU team has now uncovered evidence that the earliest ancestors of spiders and scorpions exploited the strategy.

17.07.2014

Stage-specific feeding strategies - 520 million years ago

 Well preserved: larval stage of L. illecebrosa.
(Source: Yu Liu and Joachim T. Haug)

LMU press release, München, 07/16/2014

Stage-specific feeding strategies - 520 million years ago (in ENGLISH)

LMU Pressemitteilung, München, 16.07.2014

Die Strategie der Larven (in GERMAN)

Publication

Liu Y, Haug JT, Haug C, Briggs DEG, Hou XG
A 520 million-year-old chelicerate larva
Nat Commun 2014;5:4440

Contact

Dr. Yu Liu