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Lepidopteran prolegs are novel traits, not leg homologs

Lepidopteran larvae have both thoracic legs and abdominal prolegs, yet it is unclear whether these are serial homologs. A RNA-seq analysis with various appendages of Bicyclus anynana butterfly larvae indicated that the proleg transcriptome resembles the head-horn transcriptome, a novel trait in the...

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Autores principales: Matsuoka, Yuji, Murugesan, Suriya Narayanan, Prakash, Anupama, Monteiro, Antónia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10569709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37824626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add9389