Hexapod Origins: Monophyletic or Paraphyletic?
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- 21 March 2003
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- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 299 (5614) , 1887-1889
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078607
Abstract
Recent morphological and molecular evidence has changed interpretations of arthropod phylogeny and evolution. Here we compare complete mitochondrial genomes to show that Collembola, a wingless group traditionally considered as basal to all insects, appears instead to constitute a separate evolutionary lineage that branched much earlier than the separation of many crustaceans and insects and independently adapted to life on land. Therefore, the taxon Hexapoda, as commonly defined to include all six-legged arthropods, is not monophyletic.Keywords
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