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EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 318-322Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00334.x
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Saltational changes in segment numbers have likely occurred in arthropod evolution, especially if mechanisms of segment formation involve a multiplicative phase, as recently suggested in the evo-devo literature. Here we provide for the first time evidence of major phenotypic saltation in the evolution of segment number in a lineage of centipedes, with a newly discovered species of scolopender having segment numbers duplicated with respect to its closest relatives, and to all the remaining 700+ species of Scolopendromorpha known to date.
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