Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6920, 2003, Pages 264-267

  Whiting, Michael F ^a   Bradler, Sven ^c   Maxwell, Taylor ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STICK INSECTS;

INSECT CONTROL; MUSCLE; WINGS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H3; RIBOSOME DNA;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLIGHT; INSECT; WING;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; INSECTS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PHASMATODEA; PHTHIRAPTERA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0037448597     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01313     Document Type: Article

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