Cargando…

Evolution of the assassin’s arms: insights from a phylogeny of combined transcriptomic and ribosomal DNA data (Heteroptera: Reduvioidea)

Assassin bugs (Reduvioidea) are one of the most diverse (>7,000 spp.) lineages of predatory animals and have evolved an astounding diversity of raptorial leg modifications for handling prey. The evolution of these modifications is not well understood due to the lack of a robust phylogeny, especia...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Zhang, Junxia, Gordon, Eric R. L., Forthman, Michael, Hwang, Wei Song, Walden, Kim, Swanson, Daniel R., Johnson, Kevin P., Meier, Rudolf, Weirauch, Christiane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26916580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22177