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Flight or protection: the genes Ultrabithorax and apterous in the determination of membranous and sclerotized wings in insects

Present-day pterygote insects have two pairs of wings, one in the mesothorax (T2), the other in the metathorax (T3), and both have diverged in structure and function in different groups. Studies in endopterygote and paraneopteran species have shown that the gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) specifies the ide...

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Autores principales: Elias-Neto, Moysés, Alvarez, Niuska, Ventos-Alfonso, Alba, Belles, Xavier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35975435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0967