Evolution: have wings come, gone and come again?
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.
Stone
Graham
G
ICAPB, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
French
Vernon
V
D000818:Animals; D009024:Morphogenesis; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity; D014921:Wings, Animal