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Fig. 1: ‘Blood amber’ from Myanmar.

Shuo Wang

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 31801022, 31701090) and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (grant no. ZR2019BC094).

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  1. College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

    Chao Shi, Hao-hong Cai, Ri-xin Jiang & Shuo Wang

  2. Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Chao Shi & Hua Peng

  3. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Michael S. Engel

  4. Shanghai World Expo Museum, Shanghai, China

    Ji Yuan

  5. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Ming Bai

  6. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

    Ding Yang

  7. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China

    Chun-lin Long

  8. College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China

    Zun-tian Zhao

  9. South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

    Dian-xiang Zhang

  10. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xian-chun Zhang

  11. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

    Yong-dong Wang

  12. School of Environment, Earth, and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Robert A. Spicer

  13. CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China

    Robert A. Spicer

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S.W., M.S.E., D.-X.Z., X.-C.Z., H.P., Y.-D.W. and R.A.S. conceived the idea and drafted the initial manuscript, with contributions from all other authors. All authors jointly revised the paper.

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Correspondence to Shuo Wang, Dian-xiang Zhang, Xian-chun Zhang, Hua Peng, Yong-dong Wang or Robert A. Spicer.

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Peer review information Nature Ecology & Evolution thanks Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein and Paul Barrett for their contribution to the peer review of this work.

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Shi, C., Cai, Hh., Jiang, Rx. et al. Balance scientific and ethical concerns to achieve a nuanced perspective on ‘blood amber’. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 705–706 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01479-z

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