Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidences of Phasmids Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process.
G. Forni, J. Martelossi, P. Valero, F. H. Hennemann, O. Conle, A. Luchetti, B. Mantovani
This study uses a comprehensive time-tree of Phasmatodea to show that wing evolution in stick and leaf insects is reversible, with multiple transitions to ancestral states after loss.
bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2020Evolutionary Biology