| Title |
Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0078188 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Shu Li, Chungkun Shih, Chen Wang, Hong Pang, Dong Ren |
| Abstract |
Mating behaviors have been widely studied for extant insects. However, cases of mating individuals are particularly rare in the fossil record of insects, and most of them involved preservation in amber while only in rare cases found in compression fossils. This considerably limits our knowledge of mating position and genitalia orientation during the Mesozoic, and hinders our understanding of the evolution of mating behaviors in this major component of modern ecosystems. |
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| United States | 6 | 7% |
| Japan | 5 | 6% |
| France | 4 | 5% |
| Canada | 4 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 5% |
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
| Australia | 2 | 2% |
| Saint Martin (French part) | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 44 | 52% |
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| Members of the public | 78 | 92% |
| Scientists | 7 | 8% |
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| Portugal | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 34 | 89% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 18% |
| Researcher | 7 | 18% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 21% |
| Unknown | 7 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 39% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 9 | 24% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 8% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 3% |
| Psychology | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 18% |