Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China

Shu Li; Chungkun Shih; Chen Wang; Hong Pang; Dong Ren

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078188

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Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China

Shu Li,

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China, Institute of Plant and Environmental Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China
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Chungkun Shih,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China
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Chen Wang,

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China
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Hong Pang,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Institute of Entomology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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Dong Ren

* E-mail: rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China
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Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China

Shu Li,
Chungkun Shih,
Chen Wang,
Hong Pang,
Dong Ren

Published: November 6, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078188

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update the authors information as follows

Posted by dongren on 08 Nov 2013 at 00:24 GMT

Shu Li^{1, 2, 3}, Chungkun Shih¹, Chen Wang¹, Hong Pang³, Dong Ren^1*
¹Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution & Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China,
² Institute of Plant and Environmental Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China,
³ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Institute of Entomology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R.China

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RE: update the authors information as follows

dongren replied to dongren on 08 Nov 2013 at 02:06 GMT

This a new correction.

No competing interests declared.

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update the authors information as follows

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