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Origin and diversification of wings: Insights from a neopteran insect.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Dec 2015
Medved Victor, Marden James H, Fescemyer Howard W, Der Joshua P, Liu Jin, Mahfooz Najmus, Popadić Aleksandar
Abstract excerpt
Winged insects underwent an unparalleled evolutionary radiation, but mechanisms underlying the origin and diversification of wings in basal insects are sparsely known compared with more derived holometabolous insects. In the neopteran species Oncopeltus fasciatus, we manipulated wing specification genes and used RNA-seq to obtain both functional and genomic perspectives. Combined with previous studies, our...
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