Evolution: have wings come, gone and come again?
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00364-6
Evolution: have wings come, gone and come again?
Abstract
Can complex traits be re-evolved by lineages that have lost them? Phylogenetic study now suggests that wings may indeed have reappeared several times within the ancestrally wingless stick insects.
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