Imperial College London
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DrMarkSutton

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Reader in Palaeontology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7487m.sutton

 
 
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G.25Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Citation

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@article{Briggs:2016:10.1073/pnas.1606265113,
author = {Briggs, DEG and Siveter, DJ and Siveter, DJ and Sutton, MD and Legg, D},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1606265113},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
pages = {E3320--E3321},
title = {Reply to Piper: aquilonifer’s kites are not mites},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606265113},
volume = {113},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Piper (1) offers the fascinating observation that the attachment of small arthropods by threads to the Silurian arthropod Aquilonifer (2) is similar to that of the nymphs of Uropodina mites to larger arthropods (e.g., beetles) to facilitate their dispersal in patchy habitats (phoresy). Clearly these two examples are profoundly separated by time (∼430 Mya) and ecology (the one fully marine, the other terrestrial), but it is worth considering the possibility that the adherence of tiny arthropods to Aquilonifer represents the behavior of some sort of marine mite ancestor.
AU  - Briggs,DEG
AU  - Siveter,DJ
AU  - Siveter,DJ
AU  - Sutton,MD
AU  - Legg,D
DO  - 10.1073/pnas.1606265113
EP  - 3321
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1091-6490
SP  - 3320
TI  - Reply to Piper: aquilonifer’s kites are not mites
T2  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606265113
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/43450
VL  - 113
ER  -
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