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Lutzomyia adiketis sp. n. (Diptera: Phlebotomidae), a vector of Paleoleishmania neotropicum sp. n. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in Dominican amber
A really impressive and interesting paper. I simply hadn't realized that the degree of resolution necessary to distiguish putative life-cycle stages of protozoan parasites was possible from 100 million year old fossilized vectors.
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validation of scientific names proposed here
George Poinar, Oregon State University
16 December 2008
In accordance with section 8.6 of the ICZN's International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we have deposited copies of this article at the following five publicly accessible libraries: Natural History Museum, London, UK; American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Academia Sinica, Taipei.
Fossilized digenetic kinetoplastids
16 July 2008
A really impressive and interesting paper. I simply hadn't realized that the degree of resolution necessary to distiguish putative life-cycle stages of protozoan parasites was possible from 100 million year old fossilized vectors.
Competing interests
None declared
validation of scientific names proposed here
16 December 2008
In accordance with section 8.6 of the ICZN's International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, we have deposited copies of this article at the following five publicly accessible libraries: Natural History Museum, London, UK; American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Academia Sinica, Taipei.
Competing interests
None declared