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Diverse adaptations of an ancestral gill: a common evolutionary origin for wings, breathing organs, and spinnerets.
Current biology : CB - 1 Oct 2002
Damen Wim G M, Saridaki Theodora, Averof Michalis
Abstract excerpt
Changing conditions of life impose new requirements on the morphology and physiology of an organism. One of these changes is the evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, leading to adaptations in locomotion, breathing, reproduction, and mechanisms for food capture. We have shown previously that insects' wings most likely originated from one of the gills of ancestral aquatic arthropods during...
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