TY - BOOK AU - Krasilov,Valentin Abramovich AU - Rasnit͡syn,A.P. ED - German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development. ED - Universiṭat Ḥefah. TI - Plant-arthropod interactions in the early angiosperm history: evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel T2 - Brill eBook titles SN - 9789047424024 AV - QE831 .P53 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Sofia, Bulgaria, Leiden, Netherlands, Boston [Mass.] PB - Pensoft Publishers, Brill KW - Angiosperms, Fossil KW - Israel KW - Negev KW - Arthropoda, Fossil KW - Insect-plant relationships KW - Insects, Fossil KW - Paleontology KW - Cretaceous KW - Trace fossils N1 - At head of title: Institute of Evolution, Universiṭy of Haifa, German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; V. Krassilov and A. Rasnitsyn --; Part I. Traumas On Fossil Leaves From The Cretaceous Of Israel; V. Krassilov and A. Rasnitsyn --; Part II. Fossil Insects In The Cretaceous Mangrove Facies Of Southern Negev, Israel; V. Krassilov and A. Rasnitsyn --; Index; V. Krassilov and A. Rasnitsyn; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Paleontologists just recently opened their eyes to the wealth of fossil documents relevant to plant – arthropod interaction and are busy now accumulating raw data. Perhaps the richest regional collection of interaction traces came from the mid-Cretaceous deposits of the Negev Desert, Israel, encompassing the time interval of the rise and basal radiation of angiosperms – the flowering plants. The arthropods (insects and mites) inserting their eggs in the leaves and making leaf mines and galls were discovering new possibilities for endophytic life that the flowering plants provided. Their morphological disparity suggests a diversification race, in which the angiosperms failed to override their leaf parasites. Only a small fraction of insect diversity is represented by body fossils that belong to one extinct and nine extant families of beetles and cockroaches mostly. Because similar structures are produced on leaves by parasitic arthropods of different systematic alliances, a purely morphological classification is worked out for the trace fossils, with but tentative assignments to natural taxa, referring to distinct types of parasitic behavior. It is the Evolution of behavior that is documented by the trace fossils. The body fossils and parasitic traces represent morphologies and behavioral traits fairly advanced for their geological age. The expression, abundance, co-occurrence, and host specialization of parasitic structures, as well as the marks of predation on mines and galls betray regulatory mechanisms of plant – arthropod interaction, analyzed in the broad context of ecosystem evolution, paleogeography and climate change. Co-published by Pensoft Publishers andamp; Brill Academic Publishers UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004170711.1-229 ER -