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Science 21 March 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5614, pp. 1854 - 1855
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083465
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
Wingless Insects and Plucked Chickens

Richard H. Thomas

The evolutionary relationships among different groups of arthropods have been consistently controversial. But one of the few features agreed upon by biologists is that insects (hexapods) are monophyletic, that is, they arose only once from a common six-legged ancestor. Enter Nardi and colleagues, whose mitochondrial genome sequence data throw "a naked fowl" into the midst of consensus, as Thomas describes in an accompanying Perspective.

The author is in the Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail: r.thomas{at}nhm.ac.uk

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Comment on "Hexapod Origins: Monophyletic or Paraphyletic?".
F. Delsuc, M. J. Phillips, and D. Penny (2003)
Science 301, 1482d
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