Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings

Most beetles belonging to the subfamily Carabinae of the family Carabidae (so-called carabid ground beetles) cannot fly, because their hind-wings are highly degenerated. However, about half of the species in the subtribe Calosomina within the same subfamily can fly. From extensive morphological exam...

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Autores principales: IMURA, Yûki, TOMINAGA, Osamu, SU, Zhi-Hui, KASHIWAI, Nobuo, OKAMOTO, Munehiro, OSAWA, Syozo
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Publicado: The Japan Academy 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6275329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416176
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.94.024
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author IMURA, Yûki
TOMINAGA, Osamu
SU, Zhi-Hui
KASHIWAI, Nobuo
OKAMOTO, Munehiro
OSAWA, Syozo
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description Most beetles belonging to the subfamily Carabinae of the family Carabidae (so-called carabid ground beetles) cannot fly, because their hind-wings are highly degenerated. However, about half of the species in the subtribe Calosomina within the same subfamily can fly. From extensive morphological examinations of the hind-wings of Carabinae species in conjunction with DNA molecular phylogenetic trees, the process and possible causes of hind-wing degeneration in the Carabinae are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-62753292018-12-04 Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings IMURA, Yûki TOMINAGA, Osamu SU, Zhi-Hui KASHIWAI, Nobuo OKAMOTO, Munehiro OSAWA, Syozo Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci Original Article Most beetles belonging to the subfamily Carabinae of the family Carabidae (so-called carabid ground beetles) cannot fly, because their hind-wings are highly degenerated. However, about half of the species in the subtribe Calosomina within the same subfamily can fly. From extensive morphological examinations of the hind-wings of Carabinae species in conjunction with DNA molecular phylogenetic trees, the process and possible causes of hind-wing degeneration in the Carabinae are discussed. The Japan Academy 2018-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6275329/ /pubmed/30416176 http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.94.024 Text en © 2018 The Japan Academy This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
IMURA, Yûki
TOMINAGA, Osamu
SU, Zhi-Hui
KASHIWAI, Nobuo
OKAMOTO, Munehiro
OSAWA, Syozo
Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title_full Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title_fullStr Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title_full_unstemmed Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title_short Evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
title_sort evolutionary history of carabid ground beetles with special reference to morphological variations of the hind-wings
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.94.024
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