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SCIENCE
Volume 299, Issue 5614, Pages 1887-1889Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078607
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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.
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