Mating Mites Trapped in Amber Reveal Sex Role Reversal
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 18:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the mating game, some female mites are mightier than their mates, new research at the University of Michigan and the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests. The evidence comes, in part, from 40 million-year-old mating mites preserved in Baltic amber.
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