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Homeosis in a scorpion supports a telopodal origin of pectines and components of the book lungs.
BMC evolutionary biology - 21 May 2018
Di Zhiyong, Edgecombe Gregory D, Sharma Prashant P
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BACKGROUND: The morphological and functional evolution of appendages has played a key role in the diversification of arthropods. While the ancestral arthropod appendage is held to be polyramous, terrestriality is associated with the reduction or loss of appendage rami, which may obscure the homology of different appendage derivatives. Proxies for appendage homology have included surveys of cross-reactive...
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