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
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